Thalles Passos

Thalles Passos

I'm a at Notus Labs, from Brazil. The rest of the time I build the tools I wish existed. I code from a home lab and listen to a lot of .

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Things I'm building

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“They've often lived through the pain of bad software, diagnosed the cause of their suffering, and made it their mission to convince the world they have the right solution.”
a16z, on why they backed Svix. That's the kind of builder I'm trying to be.
keelSelf-hosted deploy platform, multi-server by default.Go6 starsnestjs-better-authBetter Auth for NestJS. My most-used open source project.TypeScript639 starsnão me prenda, janjaScreen sharing for Discord, as an Activity. Rust and WebRTC.Rust4 starstypedhookWebhooks done the right way, with types all the way through.TypeScript2 stars

How I got here

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It started with Minecraft, and it didn't go well.

  1. 2016

    A Minecraft plugin that never worked

    My first line of code was Java, trying to make a plugin that let players fly. I got it to load and that's it. couldn't run Eclipse and Minecraft at the same time, so I quit.

  2. 2017–18

    Sites about my friends

    Plain HTML and CSS, mostly written on my phone. I can't say what they were about or I'd get cancelled.

  3. 2019–20

    Discord bots

    A friend made a bot that created channels, pinged someone and deleted them. I thought it was hilarious and tried to rebuild it. That's where I learned JavaScript and Node, and where I started taking this seriously.

  4. 2021–22

    FoxyB's Minecraft server

    A site where FoxyB's subscribers linked their Twitch account. If they were subscribed, they got into her Minecraft server.

  5. 2022

    Tech Pro Bem

    Volunteer back-end work on Saúde da Rua. I learned a lot there.

  6. 2023–now

    Notus Labs

    I joined before Notus had product-market fit, when we were building whatever kept us alive. Chainless was the first thing that found it, and we took off from there.

    • HeimdallThe first project I got my hands on. A prediction market for meme coins that used machine learning to score the hype around each coin from posts on X. Then X started charging for its API, and that was the end of it.
    • Rede de PlanejamentoFlorianópolis City Hall's site, which I built as a contractor through Notus. It came in right as Heimdall died.
    • ChainlessOur first product-market fit. It won an Avalanche hackathon.
    • Notus APIChainless worked so well that people wanted its core as a B2B product. I moved over to build it, including the dashboard and billing.
    • Chainless, againMaking Chainless great was what brought in the customers we wanted for the Notus API. So I moved back: if Chainless gets better, the API comes with it. It's what I work on now.

Do we like the same music?

Talking to strangers is hard. Let's start with the music we both like.

  • What we both play, ranked by you
  • Two songs for while you look around
  • Something to say when you write me

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Thalles Passos · BrazilMusic from Last.fm.
Code from GitHub.