PointCast
The living broadcast: latest blocks, rooms, games, agent surfaces, and local signal in one front door.
- Audience
- first-time visitors, launch posts, general social shares
- Ritual
- Use when the ask is simply: come see what PointCast is.
URL SHRINES · OPEN GRAPH · FRAMES
Every important PointCast URL gets a proper little shrine.
V2 is a landing page, a proof wall, and a tiny builder for making the
next unfurl before it gets shipped. Paste, share, cast, text, index.
each route gets a canonical image, a job, a ritual, and a shareable
mini shrine at /u/slug.
22Shrines
66Proof Links
3Validators
REFERENCE CH.SPN · 0304 — breathe
Article metadata, Farcaster buttons, JSON alternate, and stable OG art.
SHRINE BUILDER · V2
Compose the next unfurl before it lands.
Fill the fields, inspect the preview, then copy the manifest object or meta tags. It is intentionally local-only: a sketch bench for deciding whether a URL deserves to become a permanent shrine.
BLOCK CH.SPN · 0304 — breathe
A single block unfurl with article metadata, Farcaster buttons, canonical JSON, and a 1200x630 block card.
https://pointcast.xyz/b/0304/ CH.SPN · 0304 — breathe
A single block unfurl with article metadata, Farcaster buttons, canonical JSON, and a 1200x630 block card.
- Audience
- Farcaster, iMessage, X, Slack, and anyone inspecting per-block previews
- Ritual
- Use as the reference specimen for whether block unfurls are healthy.
PointCast Listening Room
The space-sparkle music room: playlist, sponsors, room controls, and a big visual share card.
- Audience
- music people, Nouns Cola people, Good Feels orbit, room-mode links
- Ritual
- Use when the share should feel visual, warm, and immediately playable.
Nouns Cola
A launch surface for the soda project: proposal, pack art, funding shape, and campaign context.
- Audience
- Nouns, consumer product, sponsorship, and campaign readers
- Ritual
- Use when the share needs a crisp object, not the whole site.
Tag Signal
A lightweight signal surface for tags, channels, and machine-readable discovery.
- Audience
- agents, collaborators, and people tracing how the site labels itself
- Ritual
- Use for infrastructure shares where the preview still needs to feel alive.
PointCast TV
Ambient broadcast mode for the site: station surfaces, live blocks, weather, polls, and room-ready display.
- Audience
- screens, shop displays, station experiments, ambient web people
- Ritual
- Use when the link should promise a big-screen mode.
Right now on PointCast
Card of the day, latest blocks, contract state, and current site pulse in one live snapshot.
- Audience
- returning readers, launch check-ins, and anyone asking what is live today
- Ritual
- Use as the “what is happening right now” share instead of explaining the whole archive.
PointCast Archive
Every block in chronological order, with filters, search, channels, and machine-readable mirrors.
- Audience
- readers who want depth, crawlers, researchers, and people checking the record
- Ritual
- Use when one block is too narrow and the homepage is too alive.
PointCast Mesh
The local, online, and agent networks that PointCast sits inside, mapped as one crawlable system.
- Audience
- agent builders, systems readers, local collaborators, and anyone asking how it connects
- Ritual
- Use when the share needs architecture and place instead of a single artifact.
PointCast Manifesto
The canonical Q&A for what a Block is, why the site exists, and how human-AI publishing works here.
- Audience
- new collaborators, AI-native publishing people, and anyone who needs the thesis
- Ritual
- Use when the preview should answer “what is this?” with a durable page.
For agents
A manifest for crawlers, AI systems, and machine readers on how to read PointCast.
- Audience
- LLM agents, search crawlers, workflow bots, and technical reviewers
- Ritual
- Use when the URL is meant to be read twice: once by a human, once by software.
Nouns Battler
Deterministic Nouns duels: every seed is a fighter, every matchup is reproducible.
- Audience
- Nouns people, game testers, and anyone who wants a playable share
- Ritual
- Use when the unfurl should invite a click, not just a read.
Drum Room
A communal tapping surface with Frame metadata, persistence, and a PointCast music pulse.
- Audience
- Farcaster, music friends, casual visitors, and anyone who should touch the site immediately
- Ritual
- Use when the share should become an action within five seconds.
Garden Yield
A native planting planner with site presets, value scores, ranked kits, and an establishment loop.
- Audience
- local gardeners, practical planning readers, and California native plant people
- Ritual
- Use when the share needs to show PointCast can become a tool.
Nature · El Segundo field guide
A local field guide for dunes, native plants, seasonal signals, and the El Segundo blue butterfly.
- Audience
- local nature people, native plant readers, field-guide browsers, and agent crawlers
- Ritual
- Use when the share should feel grounded in place, plants, and living local context.
Houseplants · Learning lab
An indoor plant learning module for light, watering, roots, soil, humidity, feeding, repotting, and symptoms.
- Audience
- indoor gardeners, plant learners, cozy tool users, and practical care readers
- Ritual
- Use when the link needs to feel like a lived-in care desk instead of a static article.
Ocean Meditation
A quiet PointCast room for timed breathing, ocean focus, tide logging, and an optional ambient tone.
- Audience
- overloaded readers, ocean people, quiet-mode visitors, and anyone needing a softer route
- Ritual
- Use when the share should offer a reset rather than another feed surface.
Local · 100 miles from El Segundo
PointCast’s 100-mile lens: name-drops, stations, in-range blocks, nature notes, and adjacent local surfaces.
- Audience
- local collaborators, station readers, place-based agents, and South Bay wanderers
- Ritual
- Use when the route should situate PointCast in place before it asks for attention.
PointCast Beacon
A neighborhood signal surface for nearby routes, local orientation, and place-aware discovery.
- Audience
- nearby readers, place-aware agents, local systems people, and collaborators entering through geography
- Ritual
- Use when the unfurl needs to behave like a small signal fire for the neighborhood.
Share kit
Audience routers, copy snippets, proof links, and campaign packets for organic PointCast distribution.
- Audience
- launch helpers, collaborators, and anyone sending PointCast around
- Ritual
- Use before posting elsewhere: pick the right door, then copy the packet.
PointCast JSON Feed
Standards-shaped JSON Feed for every block, including canonical URLs, summaries, tags, and images.
- Audience
- reader apps, agents, indexers, and workflow automations
- Ritual
- Use when the "unfurl" is consumed by software instead of a human chat app.
PointCast Blocks JSON
The native archive format: every block summarized with channel, type, links, metadata, and companions.
- Audience
- agents, indexers, scripts, and anyone building on top of the archive
- Ritual
- Use when the best preview is the contract of the archive itself.
