yes. strongly believe that doing it the other way around doesn’t work many teams fool themselves into believing they’ll build everything centralized first, in order to gather information on what works, and insight into what users want, then codify that into a protocol. but by the time they’ve achieved that (if they ever achieve it) they’re so inundated with other tasks and feature requests that they never actually get around to it. and so their product ends up just being a worse version of a web2 alternative because they’re using some crypto, but not enough to materially differentiate there are exceptions to this (merkle, for example), but they’re exceptions, and often exceptionally funded :)

great q. the initial idea was to make collecting onchain art easier by putting it on autopilot. that's still how many people use @hypersub, but we had no idea it'd be used for community building, podcasts, writing, music, app development, freelance, and farcaster channels. that's been a lovely surprise and something we've tried to keep up with in the product

tbh idk. we've been thinking a lot about this lately. i don't have any high conviction answers yet, but something about hypersub being "The Gate" as @proxystudio.eth puts it, makes sense to me

to power the majority of creator monetization on the internet

yes. like many teams, i think we've reached a local maximum. we must grow

worked at hp for 1.5 years, google for 6, and freelanced for startups and big tech cos for a number of years before founding fabric the benefit of working at a big corp is you can specialize. being a good founder means being a good generalist. but its also important to be an expert in at least 1 thing imo. that takes time and focus, which is more common at a big co compared to a small one because there are so many more people

me and @ds brainstorming what to build next in our hotel room during farcon 1. we thought: nfts are cool, and people seem to like minting them, but then nothing happens after that. would be cool to make them more useful and workout a way to get creators paid on a recurring basis. by the time we got home danny had a working contract

1) what it does and how it feels. both have to be valuable and differentiated in order to earn attention and repeat usage 2) "build a product that grows itself" and "find an approach to marketing that works for you, but not your competitors" are two pieces of advice i recently received that i thought were great, and wished i would've heard sooner

1. create real value (ongoing art, music, media, membership, access, etc.) 2. promote, promote, promote 3. don't give up those seem to be the common denominators amongst the most successful hypersubs

kiss: keep it simple stupid no matter how simple i think i've made it, it can almost always be made simpler. especially important in crypto

i 100% agree :)

yeah, possibly. in some ways, that's already happening, for example if you subscribe with a credit card you don't need to re-mint, but you're also excluded from earning rewards. on a long enough time horizon i think the ux will converge

if we build new products they'll likely be an extension of hypersub. for example, "hypersub pro" or something like that, with a slightly different offering and target audience. hard to imagine us hard pivoting given the initial traction w/ hypersub

i think they're great. not a big memecoin trader myself, but i love seeing experimentation and iteration. farcaster is a programmable social network and these projects have taken advantage of that more than most

crowdfunding came first, but when it didn't grow as much as we needed it to, we started thinking about other things. that was the beginning of hypersub

fc is still tiny compared to twitter so there's a higher signal to noise ratio. its like a crowded dinner party vs. summer music festival. much easier to discover and connect with others