Patrick | Megapot
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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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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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big brain moves by @farcasteradmin.eth @alec.eth
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> Start by honing in on the right framing. It's vastly cheaper to iterate there.
like how cluely asked "what would go viral?" before even building it
and especially for protocol builders, you want to know what the viral hook is before you start building it
I've been dipping my toes into growing consumer apps on TikTok
A few observations (prob obvious, but maybe useful):
~ It's easier to work backwards from viral hooks and back into the product than the other way around. Most people (including myself) start from the product and then go hunting for the story. Start by ho
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