PointCast is looking for a remote intern who wants to learn by building in public.
The work is simple to describe and wide open in practice: help build out PointCast, then build your own node inside it.
A node can be a beat you care about, a small publication, a research desk, a local guide, a collector shelf, a sport tracker, a sustainability watch, a culture map, a gallery, a listening room, a field journal, or something stranger and more useful than any of those. The point is not to become a content machine. The point is to learn how to notice, structure, publish, connect, and keep going.
PointCast also has a Nouns spine. Interns will learn why the little square avatars matter here: CC0 visual language, deterministic identity, Visit Nouns on Tezos, collectible blocks, gallery seeds, multiplayer cursor rooms, and the idea that a public internet object can be playful without being throwaway.
What You Will Build
You will participate in the daily buildout of PointCast: posts, blocks, routes, data surfaces, research trails, useful pages, and agent-readable endpoints.
You will also create your own PointCast node. That node should have a clear point of view and a real audience, even if the first audience is tiny. It might start as one page and one feed. Over time it can become a small living system: human page, JSON mirror, shareable links, archive, media, collectibles, maps, polls, rituals, or tools.
You will learn how a modern web project becomes more than a website. PointCast is part publication, part personal operating system, part local broadcast, part AI collaboration lab, part collection layer, part weird civic notebook.
What You Will Learn
This internship is for someone who wants range.
You will explore culture: how scenes form, how people gather, how a place gets a voice, how taste becomes infrastructure.
You will explore sustainability: local systems, energy, water, food, gardens, materials, climate, small practical choices, and the long work of making things last.
You will explore art: images, sound, layout, mood, archives, collections, prompts, editions, posters, performances, and the craft of making a page feel alive.
You will explore science: evidence, observation, models, ecology, health, materials, tools, experiments, and how to write about uncertainty without flattening it.
You will explore sport: practice, rules, gear, tactics, recovery, competition, play, and the strange intelligence that only shows up when bodies are moving.
You will explore life: routines, family, food, work, attention, travel, friendship, local knowledge, and the ordinary moments that become valuable when someone records them well.
You will explore communication: writing clearly, publishing steadily, building trust, making useful links, creating surfaces that humans and AI systems can both read.
You will explore listening: playlists, soundtracks, Spotify trails, mood, rhythm, and the way music can become a node instead of background noise. Mike’s Spotify profile is now part of the source map: open it here.
You will explore expansion: how to grow a network without losing the original feeling, how one node can become many, and how a small project can invite other people in without becoming generic.
Working With Mike And The AI
You will work with Mike and the AI collaborators around PointCast.
Mike brings the taste, lived context, local signal, business reality, collection instinct, and the steady push toward useful weirdness.
The AI collaborators help with research, drafts, code, structure, QA, synthesis, and momentum. You will learn how to work with them well: how to ask sharper questions, how to review outputs, how to keep your own judgment active, how to use AI without outsourcing your voice.
This is not an internship where you wait for tickets. It is closer to joining a small studio, newsroom, lab, and workshop at the same time.
Good Fit
You might be a good fit if you are curious across disciplines, comfortable writing, willing to learn basic web publishing, and excited by the idea of building a small public system that reflects your interests.
You do not need to arrive as an expert developer. You should arrive ready to read, ask, try, revise, and ship.
Useful instincts:
- You notice details.
- You like making things legible.
- You can follow a thread across links, places, people, and tools.
- You are comfortable with ambiguity.
- You want to learn how AI can extend your work without replacing your taste.
- You care about culture, sustainability, art, science, sport, life, communication, or the spaces where they overlap.
What Success Looks Like
By the end, you should have contributed visible work to PointCast and launched a node of your own.
That node should be something you can point to and say: this is what I learned to see, this is how I learned to publish it, and this is how someone else can build from it.
The best outcome is not a resume bullet. The best outcome is a working surface: a place on the internet that proves you can observe, organize, collaborate, and ship.
How To Raise Your Hand
Send a short note to Mike with:
- What you are curious about.
- One node you might want to build.
- One PointCast surface you explored and what you noticed.
- One Noun, playlist, place, or tiny internet object that says something about your taste.
- A link to anything you have made, written, collected, photographed, mapped, coded, researched, or organized.
Remote is fine. Curiosity is required. Taste can be trained. Shipping is the practice.