Prashant Bagga (@prashantbagga) • Hey
Prashant Bagga (@prashantbagga) • Hey
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- Lens is now permissionless.
- Trying out Hey!
- chris is officially the most popular onchain name
- like this tweet!
get 2 cents (in USDC)
happy new years!! 🎉
- this seems like the real “democratizing of economic opportunity”
saw this on farcaster today.
got a problem?
let your people know.
and put a dollar value to it.
if you craft the right incentives, people will go out of their way to help you solve your problem.
s/o to linda for building bountycaster
connect with people on any farcaster client.
(i.e. warpcast, supercast)
reward them, no matter what country you are based in.
(i.e. pay in USDC)
you now have access to a global pool of economic opportunities - in the same app where your web3 friends hang out
- base: gpt-4
clients: chatgpt, microsoft copilot
base: smtp
clients: gmail, microsoft outlook
base: lens
clients: hey, orb, phaver
base: xmtp
clients: converse, coinbase wallet
- story time
https://x.com/prashantpbagga/status/1742391383930065362?s=20
- the ultimate benefit of bitcoin mining is decentralization of energy
miners are inherently incentivized to invest in innovative and sustainable energy like solar, hydro, nuclear and more
instead of relying on a central power grid, each node will independently and sustainably generate its own energy
- web3 products have to offer web2 feature/performance parity and then offer more - privacy, interoperability, decentralization
- one super app to combine them all?
or one protocol that's a backbone for all?
- latest edition of Trust Me Bro is banger 🥵
@lens/iamtherealyakuza
- all i want for christmas is put web3 in the hands of people 🎄
- make crypto grandma-friendly 🥰
weeeeeeeeeeeeeee
- “Lots of folks building skeuomorphic web3 chat apps, allowing you to message your existing friends & network onchain.
The real innovation seems to be enabling communication between individuals who aren't connected otherwise.” - Gaby Goldberg
- coinbase’s version of TRIVIA TOWN 😉
https://x.com/coinbasewallet/status/1735744299327795607?s=46&t=_txG9117T4Optrgf5j38ng
- how to use conferences to get your product into the hands of people?
- pick the cafe that is closest to the conference venue
- ask if you could speak with the cafe manager
- ask the manager if you could pay upfront for 20 cups of coffee
- make your campaign extremely simple for people to follow
- make your campaign extremely simple for the manager & the staff to follow
our campaign:
for customers, skip the boring line. message grabcoffee.eth on converse.xyz and get free coffee. also, drop a selfie so we know where to find you.
for manager, I sent him screenshot of the order & selfie over whatsapp.
both the staff and the customers loved the convenience.
next conference, I’ll get the cafe manager on an xmtp client and let them directly receive orders from their crypto-native customers.
- what would make you more upset?
waking up and finding all your money is gone
or
waking up and seeing all your messages are gone
i asked 3 friends today
interesting responses
- 87% of conference attendees checked in with a wallet-to-wallet messaging app
• 5x faster check in with NFT ticket
• organizers directly reached attendees’ inbox with important notifications & reminders
• organizers and attendees own their conversations - can view them on all @lens/xmtplabs clients
- walked into the FILBangalore registration line at 9 am and 8 out of 10 people were ready with their NFT ticket on @lens/converseapp
- comedians hit up small open mics to test ideas
understand what gets a reaction,
what doesn’t
then sharpen the hits,
axe the duds
and go make that netflix special happen
similarly
conference panel is a solid place to throw your ideas/hypothesis out there and understand what sticks
then sharpen the hits
axe the duds
and go make that keynote happen
- how many times did you open your bank account app today?
what about messaging apps?
average human beings check their messages more frequently than their net worth.
based on this insight, what do you think the future of crypto wallets look like
just like any app, wallets want to increase user engagement
they want to build something that people want more than once a week.
based on this insight, what do you think the future of crypto wallets look like
what was the conclusion of that “longest in-depth longitudinal study on human life ever done”?
good relationships lead to health and happiness
not how much bitcoin moved in the past 48 hours.
based on this insight, what do you think the future of crypto wallets look like
i believe in future - your relationships, your conversations, your reads/unreads will be front and center
- putting web3 in the hands of people
- smart creators grow their audience on rented platforms and then, drive them to owned platforms
owned platforms:
• SMS
• podcast
• email (SMTP)
• wallet DMs (XMTP)
- How it started How it’s going
- my friend is a swiftie
she would splurge hundreds of dollars to get more of taylor swift
this made me think
imagine taylor swift wants to host an exclusive close-knit concert for her ultra-elite 0.001% of fans worldwide
do you think these ultra-elite fans would want this?
HECK YEA
do you think taylor swift can pull this off today?
i don’t know.
taylor swift knows how to put together a magical experience
and the numbers speak for themselves
the eras tour set a record for the highest-grossing tour ever, earning billions of dollars in ticket sales
just imagine what an exclusive concert for her most loyal fans would feel like
but to make this happen
is there a way for taylor swift to find her top 0.001% fans across all streaming services?
spotify reports listening activity on the spotify platform alone
same for apple music and others
she has access to fragmented listening data scattered across the many streaming sites
the top fans on spotify is distinct from those on apple music, and both of them are totally different from those on youtube music
okay
for now, let’s assume she can somehow get this data across all streaming services
but then, is there a way for her to directly reach and invite these ultra-elite fans?
what platform would she message them on?
would she text them all?
would she email them all?
would she send them in-app notifications from spotify and apple music?
would she post the concert on ticketmaster? but then how would she ensure that only the ultra-elite fans can purchase the tickets? and not let the ticket-snatching bots take over?
seems quite challenging.
so
what needs to happen to bring this exclusive concert to reality?
• listening data needs to be interoperable across all streaming services
• conversation needs to be interoperable across all messaging platforms
if my friend is an ultra-elite swiftie across all streaming services, taylor swift's team should be able to directly reach her with an invite, no matter what messaging platform each of them prefers.
whether that’s imessage or email or instagram DMs or maybe even spotify DMs
this exclusive concert is possible with:
• no fragmented data
• no fragmented conversations
- you never have to know
you never have to know about chains, protocols, and the tech underneath
your grandma never has to know that she is paying to the grocery shop on optimism chain and not arbitrum
web1 showed what was possible with the internet
web2 brought that to the masses with beautiful user experiences
web3 is moving control back to individuals
web3 has to solve the same problems - payments, commerce, relationships, and more
...but this time making sure that individuals own the assets, the conversations, the relationships, and all the data
you want to get a job done
you want a problem solved
you never have to know about chains, protocols, and the tech underneath
you never have to know
- transcend borders - both physical and digital
- phone number is your rented identity in a country
step outside and you are now an alien to all other countries
instagram username is your rented identity on their platform
step outside and you are now an alien to all other apps
take your identity, conversations, relationships, and all data - with you no matter where you go, across apps, across countries.
- protocols don’t win in isolation.
your ideal client is looking to offer a 5-star user experience
and your protocol is just one of the several components enabling that.
huddle01 is winning by collaborating with key protocols to craft 5-star experiences
- starlink, crypto wallet, usdc and nomad border pass
future digital nomad essentials.
one high-speed internet subscription, no matter where you go
one identity to take your conversations with you, no matter where you go
one currency, no matter where you go
one multi-country visa, no matter where you go
- network state.
start a new country with a DAO.
recruit citizens like a startup.
buy land once you have a strong community and enough funds.
- “people at devconnect are sending $ 0.69 USDC to each other on daimo”
folks got invite code for this new app and received 5 USDC to play with peer-to-peer crypto payments.
“nicely designed!”
you don’t always need an elaborate go-to-market plan
“we are on a mission to make ethereum feel fast, easy, secure and real. we start with a great payments app.”
at zuzalu in may, @lens/dcposch and @lens/nibnalin realized that it’s now possible to create a great payments app on ethereum.
“this week: 300 users, 1200 transfers at zuconnect”
why is there demand for daimo invite codes when you can send crypto from any wallet out there.
“i suspect its something to do with doing one thing, and only one thing, very well: USDC transfers”
- 100+ crypto wallets were hooked on a trivia game built with XMTP.
Ready to launch it yourself?
Here's the story: https://x.com/prashantpbagga/status/1722696626995921322?s=20
- drop your city + country below.
i’ll dm you another cool person you should meet up with in your area.
- who is based in lisbon?
- I’m absolutely down for triviatown season 2 🥳.
(can only get better for me 🫣😂)
1k likes 🤷♀️ let’s goooo :-)
- I’ll host Trivia Town Season 2 if this post gets 1000 likes
- Kudos, @punkess.lens !! You've earned the award of Trivia Town Bestie for bringing along the most friends to play the game.
- Nice work @datartist.lens !! You’re among the elite Top 10 in Trivia Town 🥳
- Nice work @iamtherealyakuza.lens!! You’re among the elite Top 10 in Trivia Town 🥳
- Nice work @papito.lens!! You’re among the elite Top 10 in Trivia Town 🥳
- Nice work @andresbriceno.lens!! You’re among the elite Top 10 in Trivia Town 🥳
- Nice work @drewc.lens!! You’re among the elite Top 10 in Trivia Town 🥳
- Nice work @gskrovina.lens !! You’re among the elite Top 10 in Trivia Town 🥳
- Fantastic job @cmn.lens__ !! You took home the bronze in Trivia Town 🥉
- Way to go, @0xzelda.lens !! You rocked that second place finish in Trivia Town 🥳
- Congrats @mazemari.lens ! You’re the ultimate Trivia Town Titan 🏆
- Trivia Town fam! 🎉
The results are in, and we've got our winners!
🥇 @mazemari.lens - You're the ultimate Trivia Town Titan 🏆
🥈 @0xzelda.lens
🥉 @cmn__.lens
See y'all at the next season :)
- @punkess.lens I did it!
It was actually fun. I enjoy these quiz (if I am alone ahaahha) .
Kind of got lucky cause I think I knew at least 4... let see
- FINAL SHOWDOWN at 3 PM PST
@0xzelda @gskrovina @andresbriceno @drewbeechler @mazemari @iamtherealyakuza @lukecannon @preegee @papito @iamserdar @kiril @rileybeans @punkess @noemalzieu @jamesfinnerty @bartomolina @petermdenton @tinyrainboot @etienneroyole @antimofm @polmaire @stani.lens @nader.lens