i'm sick and tired of seeing this narrative of crypto founders who are mad b/c "gambling/casino products" are winning instead of their personal high-brow, decentralized, useless-product-but-has-a-good-ethos.
let's get one thing out the way: everything is a fucking casino.…
I’m sorry but if you’re paying $200k for a smart contract engineer you’re ngmi
any solid dev should be able to write solidity with the help of chatgpt
“no, the smart contract needs to be perfect and be audited” bro hit $100k in daily volume then worry about it being perfect
if you have a good feature idea, run it by VCs. VCs truly are a good sounding board.
if they like it, consider going back to the drawing board. if they don't like / think it doesn't make sense, drop everything and ship it immediately.
tldr; i got sim-swapped yesterday
first noticed our unlonely_app twitter getting hacked. attackers bought similar unlonely dot xyz or unlonely dot claim domains and copied our landing page. luckily, we caught this early and were able to prevent further losses for users.
then my…
two big announcements:
📲 new PWA mobile experience - no more downloading a standalone app & interact seamlessly with buying/using tokens on streams
💳 integrated with
@privy_io
for wallet logins via email - now your non-web3 friends can join streams too
1/3
some financial stats for s2 love on leverage last week:
- $410,000 in volume
- almost 2k txns
- average txn size: $241
- largest txn size: $15k
for context, season 1 had $20k in volume total over 10 shows
past 90 days for
@unlonely_app
last year unlonely was just me streaming everyday to 10-15 people
good things take time, thankful i didn't stop when things go tough
also s/o my haters
business school is generally a waste of money. But if your sister does end up going and you get to attend an Indian wedding as a result of her business program, then that’s actually a pretty good deal.
went to a stacks NFT event hosted by
@TO
, was asked on 7 different occasions why I wasn’t building on stacks instead. anyhow, don’t really remember leaving the event, and just woke up in a dark basement with my hands tied so hopefully I’m ok.
"I sign into a VR casino and pull up a chair where the dealer recognizes my avatar...my player’s card is shining hot, signaling that other players should come join my table, which the casino likes and decides to send me a virtual “drink ticket”, that can be redeemed at Uber
Eats"
what makes a meme coin successful? is it the planned orchestration of shadow-elites or the serendipity of dog pictures on the internet?
together, lets find out. starting tomorrow Wed. 1pm EST, a new show on unlonely where we learn and launch memecoins as a community.
I hate when people ask for metrics and “traction”
like bro
this entire industry is built off of vibes and vibes alone
vibes can create a 100m mkt cap out of thin air
and vibes can also kill your project
getting stuck in the idea-maze, worrying about edge-cases, trying to think your way through complex product features -- this is probably the most common trap i see founders make in this space.
combine this with the general complexity of tokenomics, and if you are not spending…
been playing around with Sora, the text-to-video model launched today by Open AI
the prompt: handsome founder and pretty VC participate on a livestreamed valentines show, and founder unsuccessfully tries to rizz up the VC to which VC doesn't even respond.
I'm super excited to announce what I've been working on! I made Pravna because I wanted a crypto-native source to stay updated with constant onslaught crypto news.
some learnings about unlonely -- tldr; tokens = content:
We have run countless “onchain x livestream” experiments at Unlonely. Major ones of note –
Oct 2022: Non-fungible clips. These were livestream clips that could get minted as NFTs. Didn’t excite me much though - mostly…
"bro hear me out. each of those tokens, we put them on chain. they power the dao that powers the product points program for participating in the chores that power the world"
anyone who suggests we token-gate fundamentally doesn't understand live-streaming and how difficult it is to get people to show up at a specific time.
we haven't done it not because it's hard to implement, but because it's simply a bad idea.
Some thoughts on our recent Love on Lev. experiment:
-bullish on live-betting and turning any content into a “gamble-able” event
-users want to be able to bet more aka more liq. + something to bet on when someone isn’t live
-next “show” will be multiplayer (multiple streamers…
thanks for sharing your feedback - appreciate that you’re ultimately advocating user safety and we’re not in the business of making crypto a scammier place. plan to push any updates to the smart contract with effective security measures in place. realizing that my “build quickly…
I don't normally put disclosured into public but I think that the users of
@unlonely_app
should know how irresponsible the team is about user funds.
If you are a user be advised you should avoid all use of the currently live Unlonely contracts.
100% confident that another show will hit $1M in volume this year. content creators, it's time to think bigger than tik toks and vlogs. who wants to create the next american idol? or survivor? or shark tank?
yesterday was our biggest day for streaming on
@unlonely_app
ever:
- 8 streams, 2 were first timers
- 21.5 hrs total hours streamed
- ~100 total watch hours
- 29 & 27 peak concurrents on top streams
- new record of 4 concurrent channels live on the platform
tldr; self-reflection
been shit posting quite heavily recently, mostly high off the success of Love On Leverage. 9 episodes of blind dates where you could trade yes and no’s during the 1 hour stream. it was a big success and, for a brief 2 week period it felt that we had achieved…
one great thing about unlonely is how naturally each product iteration has come to us. rarely are there moments when i'm unsure what direction to take the product. more often then not, it's "oh duh obviously let's do this"
let's go through the the iterations👇:
got
@unlonely_app
roasted on Twitter and IRL this weekend. I pitched in front of comedians on they roasted it.
Insults included: “oh so you’re a huge douchebag?”
“tell me you’re single without telling me you’re single”
and
“I heard you don’t audit”
thanks for having me
was doom scrolling the timeline, thinking about how much growth we have to do still for unlonely
then I looked up across the bed and kissed the love of my life on the forehead
then I realized love is temporary so I came back to write this tweet
DexScreener, but with audio and video chats on each ticker's page
who tf building this
basically we need dexscreener + telegram + twitter as one single app, with a "cool" user interface
been seeing some posts about raising seeds/accelerator applications right now where were in this weird not-bear but also not-bull market period.
unlonely raised a seed round from tier 1 investors because two main reasons:
-I streamed almost everyday for 6 months
-I had a…
web3 VC just asked me what project i'm working on as their very first question.
"you don't know what project i'm working on?"
"no i couldn't tell from the meeting"
so i said "this meeting is probably going to be a waste of time", left the call, then ordered a drone strike on…
there's an interesting crypto primitive recently brewing on Farcaster(FC) after yesterday's launch of $DEGEN, a FC-native token thats been airdropped to top users(specifically users of the /degen channel).
soon after, i made a post about shaming OG FC users if they sold; that…
some reflections on season 2 and what's next for unlonely:
- shows are feature announcements. s1 featured live-betting, s2 featured $VIBES. shows are necessary b/c there needs to be a critical mass of people there using the feature in order for us iterate properly.
1/n
I employ 3/4 of my family. My sister is my cofounder, mom helps with finances, and dad is no longer the patriarch of my household.
thanksgiving will go how I want it to go
used
@JupiterExchange
this past weekend to purchase and trade some solana. it’s incredibly fast and the fees are practically 0 compared to ETH gas fees. if the solana community gets even 5% the usage ETH currently has, it’ll be game over for ETH imo
some thoughts after yesterday's stream:
- online content experiences like these have no upper bound. how much is it worth to control a show like love on leverage? $10? $100? 10 eth? there's no real world equivalent thus no upper bound and thats exciting from a monetization…