Question for the FC intelligensia: Why don't we have more apps launching onchain?

We need more apps.

It's insanity that after 10 years we've still barely seen any crypto / blockchain apps go mainstream, yet companies are still rebuilding the same programming environments over and over expecting a different result.

Now we have close to 1,000 L1s and L2s,

nader dabit

Question for the FC intelligensia: Why don't we have more apps launching onchain?

https://x.com/dabit3/status/1917589833628713399

Founder, designer, & product guy at /basepaint and /eigenlayer

Two reasons: 

Because people sell onchain as the feature not the infrastructure. This immediately limits the market. 

And then if we’re being honest with ourselves, the majority of builders building onchain are building for a narrow audience of gamblers.

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Crypto tries to perceive itself as Manhattan in the Great Gatsby, but really we are the Valley of Ashes industrial wasteland on the way in.

To add on: 

It is very hard to build something that simultaneously abstracts away chain complexity but also requires it for the variety of use cases