Up until recently, blockspace was expensive and slow. In the last year, that's no longer the case. Also embedded wallets / smart contract wallets / Passkeys will continue to make it straightforward to make any crypto app aware. On-ramp APIs are also much better (but still the largest point of friction for a pure consumer app).
It's 2024 — the consumer web is 30 years old and the modern smartphone era is almost 20 years old. Internet software is a mature industry. Obvious ideas (regardless of whether they involve crypto) are solved.
So if it's an existing idea + crypto, you usually getting, at best, a 10% improvement. It's not a 10x improvement. And if it's not 10x, you won't really get people many people to switch. (And for the last 2 or so years, crypto's brand association has been more negative, so if anything it's made a product overall worse from growth standpoint.)
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What are the categories of apps where web3 is / will 10x better than normal web in short order? - stuff where resilience to national censorship is key aka farcaster et all - stablecoins seem to be a thing? iunno that's what old school econ folks on MR say - games? I feel like there's gotta be some sorta unlock for a meta-game with stuff unlocked across many specific games. open world rpg mechanics - are communities like cabin dao actually working? I've poked my head in there every now and then and curious to see if artists and writers and actual creatives are making use of that. - what are the areas where the eth vision of a world computer really comes into play? Basically looking for stuff where tech is a means rather than an end https://dwr.email/where-are-the-apps
1e to collect this post from @dwr.eth ... 👀🥵 will someone pay? https://dwr.email/where-are-the-apps
lol why would anyone pay 1 eth for that
i assumed you were running an experiment - is this just default on paragraph?
I guess!
What happens when a backend developer has a solid month of work, but then suddenly makes a fatal mistake and the app disappears? Could that be the case here? 😹