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If platforms like Vine and TikTok aim to make us all content creators, subscription platforms like Spotify aim to make us all content curators, picking our favorite tracks and sharing them with friends and the internet at large. While curating our music choices might give us a brief flash of empowerment, like we’ve somehow escaped the clutches of c... See more

there are concepts behind BitClout that are great. But, the current model is best case: really lacking and worst case: illegal.

If I’m not being rejected from anything, then I’m not properly exploring the boundaries of my option space. I want to know the limits of my current capabilities. If I was accepted to everything I applied for, then I clearly wouldn’t have been exploring enough. I would have been staying too much within my comfort zone, and in expectation, missing ou... See more

There are a few areas where TikTok really excels for startups:

Pre-internet, it was immensely challenging for individual writers and other content creators to get distribution. For journalists, the primary path to making an income consisted of joining an established news organization with an advertising department, production capabilities, and delivery processes.

According to US census data, eCommerce grew 44% in Q2 2020, achieving three years of growth in just three months.

We can have more than one subscription. Boom. One of the most hurtful conventions in subscription pricing is "it has to be simple". Do you know how many tiers the fastest growing subscription mobile apps have (upper quartile in terms of growth)? Not 1. Not 3.

For products to work at scale they need sustainable business models and networks. Would love to see more discourse in web3 about the complex financial incentives conflicts that we’re going to see if the movement goes beyond DeFi/trading-related use cases. A few examples👇