Hypetrek

We build for the ones that build culture. Hypetrek manifesto: open.substack.com/pub/hypetrek/p…

Jonathan Katz-Moses, a YouTuber making woodworking content just raised $2M to scale his creator business. He has 590K+ subscribers, a 15-person team, and is projecting $10M in revenue by 2025 That is the type of creator we are building for.

@_openeconomy We are building number 6. Not on a weekend though :)

You can build anything in a weekend. So, here's 10 projects we wanna see at Campus season 2. If you build it, and we like it, we'll give you a seat. 1. Your personal wine shopper 2. Acorns, but for crypto 3. A platform for stories / games that help kids become bilingual 4. Something that launches one product a week. First 100 people who give feedback get upside when it's live 5. Dating app with zkDID that can fact check how real your photos are 6. Something novel with creator tokens 7. AI hedge fund that provides more transparency for LPs 8. time dot fun but for professional network 9. Loyalty points swap market 10. v0 for lawyers: automate contract drafting process Comment "ship" and we'll check in with you in 48 hrs.

@afscott We build a “stock” market of Web2 creators

pitch me your crypto startup in one line: > no buzzwords > must be less than 10 words > focus on the benefit to the customer

If your "creator coin" has no utility - it's a memecoin. This means, it's value is speculative and based on hopium. Crypto influencers mostly don't care, but real creators cannot afford to scam their audience.

youtube.com/watch?v=hJ-rRX… Private equity is already buying creators. However, they are loosing their own opinion after that. We are allowing creators to tokenize their business by arming their audience with the soft power of Creator Tokens.

The problem with creators moving to Web3 is not coins or even UX. Creators are nothing without their audience, and content distribution is the king. You can't just create a Twitter or Twitch clone and expect creators to move. Many tried, and many failed.

@mert Sounds like Ludwig Mises definition :)

every other month there's a debate on this hellhole about "value" in crypto let me help you out: "value" is what you get out of some shit that shit can be literal shit or useful shit, it does not matter all that matters is that someone is willing and able to buy it because they have belief in its value if it's literal shit of course, then it is harder to believe in its value since something propped up by nothing can collapse easier than something propped up by something your directive then is to simply make things people want — if you can do that, then you have made something with value hope this helps

What @zora does not understand. Token without a natural demand is a memecoin = driven by speculations only. That's why we build the real tools for the token utility first. Creator should not sell the token—he sells utility that can be unlocked with the token.

@jessepollak @toly Nope, content fundamental value is 0. Zero. Value of a creator nowadays is the trust, the bond, and the attention of his audience. Not the content. That's why we are building utility for Creator Tokens first. Fundamental demand > speculations.

@toly the content itself is valuable. ads are a way to monetize that value. but the content itself is valuable. just like a painting is fundamentally valuable, regardless of whether you charge people at the museum to see it.

@jessepollak How is it fundamentally valuable? Do coin holders have claims on future ad revenue from the content?

@jessepollak @base We are building exactly that. Let's talk?

the plan for @base: 1. enable builders and creators to originate millions of *high quality* coins that have real onchain flywheels and value flows 2. make it simple for traders and investors to access them and win over the long term and the flywheel is just starting to spin

Pumpfun X account has just been banned. We are not too much into meme coins, but this case is sad. Centralized platforms can ban a creator any time, killing the business completely. We are here to solve this. Creator Token converts the audience into a community.

Here is our “manifesto” with more details. hypetrek.substack.com/p/build-for-th…

We believe that is important to build for Creators. Because they’re not just entertainment. They’re shaping culture. And they deserve the tools to own it.

What’s the first thing you do when you wake up? You grab your phone and open Instagram. TikTok. YouTube. Twitter. Somewhere in there is a creator who’s become part of your daily life.