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given the decentralized, interoperable nature of web3 products, what is the early-mover advantage for building in web3 today?
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Dan Romero
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Depends what you're building? If you're building a protocol, most receptive audience of potential early users and developers. If you're building an app, lower bar for competition and if you have the ability to survive and make progress through the brutal down markets, well-positioned to do well in the up market.
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@ace
for protocols def get it since farcaster is the living and thriving example - was mainly thinking about app layer ones. i just randomly thought about Apple - their classic style is not to be the “first to market” but “last to market” meaning they go when the tech matures and makes it mainstream.
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Dan Romero
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Well that's hardware, which is different. That said, Facebook was after a bunch of gen 1 social networks. Coinbase was early to crypto vs. FTX was newer...
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i was thinking for software too. Six Degrees: high server cost/scaling issues/smaller audience Facebook: didn’t have much of issues Six Degrees suffered from still to this day i wonder whether we stand at the atmosphere of Six Degrees or Facebook for building in web3 at least on the app layer.
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Dan Romero
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the number of users won't be there for a while, but the quality of users is quite high. comes down to time value of money / opportunity cost for a team.
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