Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
You’re a developer building a new token-based product. Your goal is to acquire users for your product. You’re considering an airdrop as a tactic to do this. User A History of not selling airdrops immediately. User B Sells most airdrops immediately. You can only airdrop to one. Which one do you choose?
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logonaut.eth 🎩🍖↑
@logonaut.eth
You’re a user exploring a new token-based product. You're not real keen on Solana, let alone a token launcher on Solana. Your goal is to keep an open mind and try out the product anyway — maybe you'll be pleasantly surprised and end up embracing it and broadening your horizons beyond the EVM ecosystem. You add the mini app not once but twice (two different versions?) and even turn on notifications. You use it to launch a Solana token — your first. Hmm, that wasn't so bad. The next day you miss an airdrop from the app developer because, by launching a token using their product, your $SOL balance dropped too low to qualify. Meh, not a big deal — that's just how it goes sometimes. Meanwhile, though, you decide you've installed way too many mini apps and should delete some. Mini App A Novel and made you feel valued. Mini App B Derivative and made you feel unvalued. You decide to remove just one of the mini apps. Which one do you delete?
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
The person you need to convince is the next developer doing an airdrop, not me.
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logonaut.eth 🎩🍖↑
@logonaut.eth
I'm not trying to convince anyone of anything. Just to note that when buying users with airdrops, acquisition of some in the near term may raise the cost of acquiring others in the longer term. That's just the zero-sum nature of many airdrops: they implicitly sort users into winners and losers — and losers have long memories. Of course, the more overwhelming the demand for the product, the less any of this calculus matters.
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