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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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!
@colin is 1e the standard paragraph collection setting? 👀
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? 😹
The latest blog post by @dwr.eth dives into how the shifting dynamics of blockspace have enhanced crypto's growth in 2024, despite historical branding issues. Even with improved tools, existing ideas revisited in a crypto lens offer limited benefits, highlighting the challenge of consumer adoption.