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Less hackathon projects More retentive products Feels like a lot of builders in crypto overindex on the former because they romanticize the technology and the latter are much harder to build

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Builders overindex on the former because they get paid more in rewards relative to the time investment compared to putting in work for a long bet with much lowered success rate. Protocols overindex on rewarding the former because it makes their ecosystem's vanity metrics look better and increases the number of "partnerships" they can claim. If you want to fix the cycle, we have to kill the partnership meta, we have to stop falling for VC portco incest as evidence of real traction, we have to go back to the standard Bitcoin set for this industry. Hard work, infinite games, real cypherpunk

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the former is great for learning things and iterating quickly/getting experience, but agreed building something more long term and retention focused is the way to go -- just takes discipline and conviction!!

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@baseddesigner.eth

former creates latter just takes lots of tries hackathon prizes also incentivizing these niche copy paste to another chain etc projects that have 0 chance of going anywhere

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Excited for this zinger arc!

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MJC pfp

it's not about romanticism the incentives aren't there unless you have mid 7 figs in the bank and can afford to do deep deep work

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Nick T pfp

less going on dates more successful life long marriages

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One of the winners at zkhack berlin had won 60+ hackathons (in his X bio). Good for him I guess but it feels like fast fashion for devs. I don’t get if sponsors view this as marketing spend or if they actually think this will contribute to the ecosystem. Relevant: https://x.com/uttam_singhk/status/1937808513050505402?s=46

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@vinaydebrou.eth

Retention is the only truth that matters in consumer companies

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@koolkheart.eth

Facts!!! Shipping MVPs for applause is easy. Shipping something people come back to daily is the real flex

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Don’t dismiss hackathons. Every retentive product started as a crazy weekend idea once. The real issue, Not iterating after the hack. Build fast. But follow through. #BUIDL #CryptoBuilders

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Colin Charles pfp

What gets measured gets made. Hackathons are like dopamine hits. Active after 90 days? Few… It’s not even over indexing because of the tech. It’s the KPIs that incentivize it.

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