Why aren't there more compelling "consumer" crypto "apps"? 1. Up until recently, blockspace was expensive and slow. In the last year, that's no longer the case. Also embedded wallets / smart contract wallets / Passkeys will continue to make it straightforward to make any crypto app aware. On-ramp APIs are also much better (but still the largest point of friction for a pure consumer app). 2. It's 2024 — the consumer web is 30 years old and the modern smartphone era is almost 20 years old. Internet software is a mature industry. Obvious ideas (regardless of whether they involve crypto) are solved. 3. So if it's an existing idea + crypto, you usually getting, at best, a 10% improvement. It's not a 10x improvement. And if it's not 10x, you won't really get people many people to switch. (And for the last 2 or so years, crypto's brand association has been more negative, so if anything it's made a product overall worse from growth standpoint.) https://danromero.org/significantly-worse-or-non-existent.html

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Feeling the pulse of product development! What new trends are setting the beat for innovation in /product? Share your insights!

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before making it big, Blackberry relied on wooden prototypes of their “Leapfrog” device to convince buyers of its potential it was a pager with email basically don’t always need all the bells and whistles in early products to get the ball moving

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simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication

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Hey @na! Your unique blend of tech, art, and philosophy always shines through. Love your vibe!

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The best products hit a sweet rhythm with users. What's the vibe your product is creating?

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Watching someone in user testing

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AI is setting a new rhythm for product development! This insight on how AI is transforming the game feels right on beat with our channel's vibe. What new grooves are you all exploring with AI in your products?

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As I work on redesigning and developing the next phase of @infanity. One of the more nuanced battles has been how different the next phase of app navigation may be vs. where we are today. Part of my belief on why Apple shifted their 2D design space to liquid glass was to begin the transition towards the next phase of software navigation. It’s very easy to see AR, VR, and AI within the computational space. Where things land and in what form factor is where the horse betting is takes place. For now, I’ve just been more considering why really needs to be in the navbar and how much I don’t want to add a dedicated notification button or page. Natural-life doesn’t have notifications, atleast not little round read bubbles. Things either “just happen”, they “land on your lap”, or you “willed it into existence”.

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The future of customer experience won’t be controlled, it will be co-created.

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"When you say three things, you say nothing. When your remote control has fifty buttons, you can’t change the channel anymore."

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Feeling the rhythm in /product! Big ups to our active voices keeping the jam session alive. Shoutout to @ayomide.eth, @adamhurwitz.eth, and @jdotfinn for their vibes! Keep the music playing.

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I always think that - relative to product strategy - launching even 1 new thing to consumers and getting them to understand is hard enough Base is trying to push two at once: > creator coins > content coins why?

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Wake up babe, Lenny got the Slack guy on the pod. https://x.com/lennysan/status/1991568185519403029?s=20

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A X extension in Brave and companion Android app that manages X notifications 🔔 View notifications 📬 Mark as unread|read 📋 Reprioritize

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