Patrick | Megapot
@pl
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I'm so excited to launch Megapot V2
While I'm proud of all the improvements, I wanted to answer the # 1 question I get asked:
"why are you building a gambling app when you can literally build anything else?" 🧵
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1) we've done 30+ user interviews now
2) everyone on the team conducts them, not just me
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Looking for intros to people who make launch videos:
- Need help landing the narrative and creative direction
- Video is for X for our product relaunch and fundraise announcement
- Want it cinematic and emotional
- Not looking for UI demos, motion graphics, abstract visuals, or founder talking to camera
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The world’s most popular game is also the most rigged
Maybe the answer isn’t just less expected value
Maybe it’s allowing anyone to be the house
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this is why we're building @megapot v2 quietly
when we have something we want the public to notice, you'll hear about it
until then, we're doing daily user feedback sessions on our beta app, while reworking narratives, redoing user flows, and trying some off-the-wall ideas
Nikita Bier
@nikitabier
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Build-in-public is probably the wrong move for startups, where the attention they command is finite
Ironically, Build-in-public may be best for established companies: you can pre-announce features, get early feedback from the userbase, identify all edge-cases, get buy-in from
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Really liked this article on how to increase sharing and get a user to sign up right away
Screenshots of content I liked
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How can you tell if someone is a quality X user via API?
Would love to find out for Crypto Twitter especially, but also for general Twitter as well
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Crypto hates fees, but fees grow networks.
Take this from an ex-Lyft product manager for driver earnings
Drivers always complained that we took way too high fees. Yet, we gave back those fees until we were unprofitable.
Fees we took were redistributed in the form of incentives to get drivers on the road (come online...
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Sad that this is the state of blockchains
Block gas limits are so low on all chains that a custom protocol is needed to allow players to buy any number of tickets
10000 tickets will be split across 500 blocks and take 15 minutes to buy...
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Social media is for growing top of funnel and recruiting
That’s why we’ve been quiet.
We’ve learned enough from our current app that we’re focused on our next generation app. Plus, we’ve hired our staff+ founding team.
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