Cloning apps? Easy. Building something truly new on Nostr? That's the hard part.
We need to 100x the number of devs and designers to make it happen. Most projects will flop. Most designs will miss. Only a rare few will shine.
Winning is a numbers game.
š true
More entrepreneurs better than designers or devs. People who understand what problems exits that nostr can solve.
True. But entrepreneurs don't understand what problems exist. They are relentless proposers and testers. They just test so much that eventually they get something right.
Iāve seen literally hundreds of devs trying to start things and the vast majority donāt make it. The ones that do build super fast and try many things until something works. That thing that works is usually a clone of an existing business, but in some cases with a twist (some new aspect). Iāve never seen a single unicorn paradigm shift startup up close. Not that they donāt happen but the odds are astronomical probably.
So really what you need is a super builder good with hypothesis formulation for why something will work, but then they also have to do marketing. A friend was a good example of this, build a weekend project and made a couple grand, no biggie. But then leaned all in on marketing and building a personal brand, listening to feedback and improving product. Now, very successful. People donāt realize how much marketing plays an important role but all I hear on nostr is build it and they will come which is hilarious and stupid.
Also need to do marketing. Build it and they will come is bs.
I did a bunch of marketing in the past. I think non-marketing people severely overestimate how much magic marketing can do. Yes, it is important. But word of mouth, not marketing, rules any real sales growth.
I think you and I both understand what marketing entails. Itās not what everyone imagines. Common thing I read here is bluesky PR department. Always a good laugh.
Depends on the business and the definition of marketing. Elon did/does very little traditional marketing. Personally, we did zero marketing for the website we built and ran before it gained traction (quality content) and then boom, Time Warner bought it.
This is not true. PayPal did a lot of marketing back in the early days. This was his big ticket sale. From there he already gained personal brand notoriety which only grew with bold attempts like a space company.
Maybe we donāt need anything new. Perhaps itās time to stop and walk away from online. Keep in contact and meet up with a few and abandon all the rest š
I think we need content creators more than anything.
The most amazing feature is useless if no one sees it.
The biggest impediment for devs ( outside nostr ) is dedicated set of users ( and testers ) .. dev is hard no matter where you do ..
#nostr gives you first batch of users ..
this all reminds me of the earliest days of building on any blockchain like network ... without a #cryptoKitties viral moment. It's going to be a lot of quiet building ...
That said ... I am convinced #Nostr is THE platform to be building on. And I'm elbows deep in building an app & think theres no second best.
Power laws rule all.
