I'm obsessed with questions.
@patrick_oshag
is the best questioner I've come across.
I was curious... "How does he ask such great questions?" 🤔
Had my researcher compile +400
@InvestLikeBest
questions. tl;dr he's a whiz at "leading questions"
Found out last night a company i helped start is getting acquired!
Over the past 4 years, i helped start 5 companies as a sort of silent founder / founding advisor. Some where my ideas and others i helped setup the founding team and product. I never set out to do this. Just
If you’re an early FID (Farcaster Identity), believed in
@farcaster_xyz
and casted regularly pre-frames, you should cast more now.
IG, Vine, Musically, and other networks minted early **active** users into the biggest creators on the internet.
If you’re right about believing
I just created a mini-app in < 15 seconds using the new
@launcherlabs
and sent out millions in $DEGEN. Suupppper fun and excited to see what people create
Introducing Product Pages on
@launchcaster
Share and discover onchain products
- Create a page with your wallet
- Everything you launch on Farcaster or Lens will automatically show up
- Updates highlight your product, making it easier for people to discover!
- Add teammate's
YC Alumni Reunion was the most fun and impactful event i’ve attended in a long time! Blows my mind the quantity and quality of talented and ambitious people all in one place.
Here are my notes from Week 3 of
@a16zcrypto
CSX.
1/ This week, which focused on tokens, included talks on protocol design, security, and compliance. Below are some of my favorite highlights 🧵
Today we’re announcing the full cohort for CSX Spring 2024 in London
Our Crypto Startup Accelerator (CSX) Spring 2024 program kicks off this week, with the founders of 25 promising early-stage startups gathered in London. Over 10 weeks, they’ll learn from each other and receive
Today is Demo Day for CSX London 🇬🇧
CSX is our 10-week accelerator run by
@a16zcrypto
.
The program is designed around the specific needs of web3 startups, and will include funding from a16z crypto, mentorship from industry founders, lectures from domain experts, and the
Excited to share my wife and I decided to move back to Austin this fall. There were a lot of factors that influenced the move, but the truth is that I couldn't live without all the breakfast tacos and Tex-Mex 🌮
Announcing
@launchcaster
x Communities
You can now see the top launches and builders from an NFT collection, starting with
@OrangeDAOxyz
🍊 and Purple DAO 🟪
Thank you to everyone who came out to Far(away)con yesterday! It was a magical day for those that couldn't make it to Venice 🎡
Shout out to
@sandiforward
@SarahAkwisombe
@tudorizer
@Oxxbid
and the epic
@bolide_app
team for planning a flawless event in just a few weeks.
Thank
@camiinthisthang
High-quality users.
@dwr
hand-picked thousands of the first users.
The product is magical because the network of users is magical. It has bled with quality for years!
One benefit of scouting
@launchcaster
daily is that we have a birdseye view of the ecosystems projects are building on.
First, it was
@farcaster_xyz
, then
@base
, then
@ourZORA
(superchain FTW), and now $DEGEN, which has a TON of momentum.
Other ecosystems I'm bullish on right
FINALLY feeling the wind at our back 🙏
- daily orders becoming the norm
- supply side user made money every day last week
- supply side user referred 10 others after making money
We made a lil NFT for Valentine's Day 💝
- Designed to be gifted vs. just collected
- Mint to your Valentine’s ENS name or ETH wallet
- 10K hearts with lovable Web3 messages
Mint:
Here’s the backstory 🧵
Use products that inspire you to build better products.
@linear_app
is one of those products.
The experience is so effortless, fast and delightful. Using it almost feels like meditating 🧘I can't recommend it enough!
One of my favorite quotes from yesterday's
@a16zcrypto
CSX talks:
@jasonrosenthal
: If you could you wave a magic wand and fix anything?
@karl_dot_tech
: User onboarding. We have to replicate Web2 if there's any chance of surpassing it.
If you're looking for feedback on a crypto-related product, there's no better place to ask than
@farcaster_xyz
.
I did over 20 user calls this week as a result of this post. I picked up tons of new insights and made several lifelong friends 🤝
Dogecoin is the defacto memecoin of X and has a $11B market cap
$DEGEN is the defacto memecoin of Farcaster
Being born on decentralized social and having infinite utility, how high could it go?
Posting on Farcaster has earned me thousands of dollars in memecoins, which were airdropped algorithmically to me based on engagement to my casts.
Wild.
Excited to share what we’ve been working on the past couple weeks:
@Maindropxyz
We’re using learnings from
@SweetheartzNFT
to build a better way to send NFTs
- easily create & personalize🧑🎨
- send to any wallet, phone or email⚡
- low fees via 1x Tx & L2💜
- and much more 🚀
Introducing collaborative Frameboards 🤝🖼️🛹
Invite Farcaster friends to curate with you on a Frameboard!
Here's how it works:
1. Invite via
@farcaster_xyz
username
2. An invite is sent via
@xmtp_
+ Open Frames
3. Curate together via the Frameboard web app or browser
Mental model I picked up from
@AriannaSimpson
last week:
Fundraising is answering questions about a business.
- Why is this a big market?
- Why is your team best positioned to win?
- Assuming everything goes well, what will you be doing in 5 years?
Here are my notes from
@a16zcrypto
Week 4 🧵
1/ This week focused on research and engineering, including talks on incentives, ZK, L2s, and security. It was my favorite and the most impactful week so far! The best parts were breakouts, office hours, walks, and stairwell jams.
Last week was
@a16zcrypto
CSX demo day and our last week in London. To celebrate an awesome 10 weeks, here's a recap of some of my favorite lessons:
Achieving PMF is like holding a winning hand. -
@jasonrosenthal
Design your product for the dinner table. -
@benrbn
Web3 is
@ZimVC
☝️Great list! Here are some others...
Social
* Byte
Saas
* Notion
* Built
* Blinkist
* Calm/Shine/Headspace
Marketplace
* Faire
* Hipcamp
* Substack
* Rappi
* Tommy Run
E-commerce
* Tecovas
* Claire
* Glossier
* Hims
@amysundae
Nashville.
- no income tax
- warm sunny weather
- diverse and friendly people
- world-class food and entertainment
- short drive to lakes, water falls & hiking
- easy central hub to anywhere in the U.S.
- more affordable housing than sf, seattle, la, atx
Want to build an impactful product/company?
Scratch your own itch!
I researched the founding story of my favorite +20 companies. All the founders had one thing in common... they scratched their own itch. Here are some of their stories
Sign a PDF with you wallet.
No awkwardly drawing signatures with your trackpad or creating and assigning signature blocks to emails.
1. Connect wallet
2. Upload a PDF file
3. Sign with your wallet
h/t
@Dylan_Steck
@ItsTayyab
My journey building in consumer crypto:
1. Vday NFT
2. Venmo for NFTs
3. NFT gifts/cards
4. NFT bulk sending
5. Web3 Product Hunt
6. App Store for crypto apps
I'm proud to be part of the incredible team building the new Keller Williams consumer app.
This beautiful app will streamline real estate transactions and homeownership for millions!
Framing Frames
Here are six mental models and a
@paragraph_xyz
post (replies) to help you think about farcaster frames.
- Frames: [OG+]
@davidvfurlong
- Billboarding frames
- Headless marketplaces
@jessewldn
- Many-to-many mini apps
- Bring your product to frames
just dropped a dead simple no-code NFT / smart contract tool
- eth / polygon mainnet or testnet
- 1/1, 1/N or ∞ tokens
- image, video, & music NFTs
- pair with their token-gated features
h/t
@natemodi
Base NFTs on Launchcaster 🔵🚀
Excited to share that
@launchcaster
now supports
@BuildOnBase
and other new NFT features.
Deploy, import, mint, and view Base NFTs!