richweb3guy

The"build in public" thing gets cringe sometimes but the underlying idea is right: -> showing your work creates trust -> trust creates community -> community creates distribution. It's a flywheel, most people skip the first step because they're scared of being wrong publicly.

The old airdrop model is gone. Sign up and get tokens does not exist anymore. rojects now track on-chain behavior: swaps, bridging, staking, governance. Low-effort farming gets filtered out almost immediately

You don't need a team of 20 to build something people care about, you need: - a real problem - someone willing to talk to 50 potential users before writing a line of code - the patience to iterate

Something funny about web3 is that the most boring-sounding protocols tend to be the most important ones. Nobody gets excited about data availability layers or cross-chain messaging until those things break and everything stops working.

Hot take: Most crypto apps have a marketing problem disguised as a UX problem. The interface isn't confusing because it's hard to build. It's confusing because nobody talked to a real user before shipping.