Product
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@dwr
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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@accountless.eth
check out casberi and lmk how i can improve it. the wallet does quite a bit.
tldr: Everything you do is scattered across apps. Casberi.app is one place for your apps, with an agent that keeps tabs. No account, no server, all on device. Try the app on testflight for iPhone, iPad, and Mac testflight.apple.com/join/xBD4tYZh
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@dnznjuan
BRAZIL 55¢
NORWAY 20¢
🤔
New Mini App available on Farcaster, Telegram and in-browser.
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@trh
I still love (and often think about) this document navigation paradigm from Paper.
It's an excellent example of productizing byproducts.
Not only is it automatic based on my markdown activity on the page, it *extends the functionality of work I've already done*. When I apply hierarchy to the document, Paper makes that hierarchy navigable elsewhere.
"But no one asked for that! What if someone doesn't want that 'clutter' in their view?"
Great question. It's just visible enough to know it's there and readily available with a hover interaction, but it's not so obvious that it's distracting or diruptive.
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@sidshekhar
When building an agentic app, there's an urge to move all the heavy lifting to AI.
But there is something about visually browsing that kindles the human hunter gatherer discovery instinct.
just shipped a new predict ui on @askgina.eth
seamlessly browse + explore polymarkets + filter by:
- volume
- liquidity
- expiration time
And execute any trade with a click or a single sentence.
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@ayomide.eth
We shipped custom times on Jules (https://www.heyjules.app)
We used to have a fixed “Golden Window,” where Jules called you 20 minutes before your events. Based on popular demand, you can now choose exactly when you want Jules to call you for your reminder.
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@ayomide.eth
Casting less because I’m spending the day thinking about growing two consumer crypto and AI apps.
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@ayomide.eth
Hey! I’m building a new AI tool called Jules. It delivers your reminders by a brief phone call 20 minutes before they matter. Could you try it and tell me what you think? Super quick setup, no app needed. Appreciate any feedback!
https://www.heyjules.app/
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