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hi been heads down on something new. wanted to share some thoughts on building for creators and consumers in crypto the past ~3yrs there's roughly 10k (+/- 5k) real monthly transacting users in consumer crypto and their desire for new metas is insatiable for builders, this presents two possible outcomes: 1) (default) you build a thing and no one cares. no one uses it 2) you build a thing and it becomes a meta (hypersub experienced this briefly). people use it for a little while but eventually get bored. a new meta emerges and everyone moves on from here your options are: 3) go back to the drawing board 4) chase the new meta gaining traction is really hard and most builders don't want to give it up. so most chase, hoping their thing will eventually transcend the cycle and achieve breakout success by gaining adoption among a wider audience but outside of infra and trading, thats never happened. (fun thought experiments: why not? will it ever? if so, what are likely to be the causal factors?) so— 5) you can stay the course, keep grinding, and hope that the castle you've been building in someone else's kingdom eventually prospers or 6) exit 5 leads to burnout if you're bootstrapped and bankruptcy if you're vc-backed. hope is not a strategy (sorry) you can exit to a categorically different market, or to a different segment of crypto. the former likely means ai, the later means infra or trading. the problem is that you're late. the market has matured, incumbents have a lot of leverage, and its hard to differentiate we don't bear the risks and opportunity costs of becoming founders so that other men will come to our rescue. we do it because of an irrational belief in our own abilities. my advice: build where there's durable demand. sans infinite runway or corporate sponsorship you'll die otherwise i realize this sounds negative and pessimistic. sorry about that, not my intention. this message is for the builders who are trying to figure out where to invest their time and energy. its what i wish someone shared with me when i started if you're a founder and struggling with figuring out where and what to do next, hmu happy to share more 1:1 rooting for every single one of you 💛 https://farcaster.xyz/nonlinear.eth/0x96c90863
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Shipstone will be at @EthereumDenver to demo our SafeIdea and LUKSO apps and talk to people about ongoing AI onchain projects. Ping if you'd like to get together!
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Living the good life in AI-ville: https://www.corememory.com/p/a-young-man-used-ai-to-build-a-nuclear
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Check out this LUKSO Upturn Generate Token collectible!
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Check out this LUKSO Book or Bot Quiz #15 token!
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Check out this LUKSO Book or Bot Quiz #18 token!
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LUKSO's Universal Profile Mobile App is almost here! https://x.com/ERC725Account/status/1864299365797355829
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"Crypto companies will begin with the end (-user experience)" 💯
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We’ve been working with the Lukso Foundation to address the community’s reliance on X (formerly Twitter). With X’s restrictions on data-sharing, creating an open, thriving space has become increasingly difficult and costly. Farcaster offers a fresh, web3-focused platform where Lukso members can connect, plan, and engage freely. Should we focus on building there, or is there something else that would support the Lukso community better?
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Hi folks! LUKSO accepted our final deliverable for the LUKSO-Farcaster project. Am working with them to integrate it with the grid. Any suggestions? I think there is something cool that we can do with channels in Farcaster? Here's what Chappy suggested when I gave it the description of the project😀 :
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Check out this LUKSO Book or Bot Quiz #18 token!
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Testing, testing...
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Check out this LUKSO Book or Bot Quiz #19 token!
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Here's the latest version of the LUKSO mini-app!
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Here's the final version of our mini-app! Here, I'm sharing my profile from within the Universal Profile grid tab. Ping me if you'd like to test!
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Used ChatGPT 4o and o1 preview and Kapwing to create a pro four minute video in a couple hours. Currently my goto for building content!
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I competed against the bot on the battleground of three classic books: “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” by Mark Twain, ,“The Hound of the Baskervilles” by Arthur Conan Doyle, and ,“A Tale of Two Cities” by Charles Dickens. I beat the bot 1 out of 3 times! As a reward, it created a unique image combining themes from the books I was challenged on.
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I competed against the bot on the battleground of three classic books: “The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit” by Charles Dickens, ,“The Secret Garden” by Frances Hodgson Burnett, and ,“The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” by Arthur Conan Doyle. I beat the bot 1 out of 3 times! As a reward, it created a unique image combining themes from the books I was challenged on.
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