Lounge S3: Designers

chatting in the /lounge season 1 thanks to @cameron the homie

1. How did I discover Farcaster? 
in 2022, i was following @dwr.eth on Twitter because i liked his pirate pfp, and i DM'd for an invite

i was working on something called Tiny Homepage at the time, so wanted to meet more crypto founders in a social setting

weird internet kid. helping Creators with /seemore. yapping on /okbanger. curating in /creators and /cameron. dev + veteran + HBS. 
seemore.tv/cameron 🫡

2. Top 3 Career Highlights: 

1. Start:
PENUP was the first social app that i co-founded while working at Samsung. 100M downloads, and i loved this app

2. Startups: 
a. One Minute. BeReal from '15 backed by Greylock. 
b. Lounge. Sold for peanuts eventually to Mozilla

3. @perl 
Moonshot i'm building with @peter

building @alfaca @offmarket @perl | alum South Park Commons | previously cofounder SBLY.com, eng at Stripe | peter-kim.com

perl.xyz is your onchain social arcade, powered by $DEGEN. Join the discussion at /perl

🦙 @alfaca | building fun consumer crypto apps: @offmarket @perl | vc warm intros | fid #539 | resuming /cheesecoin once we hit pmf 🎯

cheesecoin

69ism

ritual

3. What are you currently working on? 

@perl is the Onchain Disney Land that looks like a social arcade at the moment. I've only been building social apps, and would love to ramp up the 'social' part of @perl once we nail the PMF. 

I experiment a lot. /cheesecoin /69ism /ritual are some examples.

perl

4. How'd you get your first 10 users? 

@peter and i are big fans of building gtm in parallel with the actual app. the moment we decided to build @perl i set up /perl and built up the waitlist before launch. 

when @peter dropped the first MVP as a frame app, we leveraged the waitlist to launch into the scene wilding.

Fun fact for me: I started following you bc of Tiny Homepage!

Blockchain data analyst. Interested in data science and blockchain.

Analysis-
https://www.hypersub.xyz/s/yesyes-analytics-qr0v8onrvev4,
https://dune.com/yesyes

Yes, One Minute also instantly blew up, but the doubt that stayed with me was the longevity of the concept

Wow, did you expect BeReal to blow up like it has now?

I was invited by a friend, and when I did, it was such a frenetic place!
And I got to meet you too.
10 $DEGEN

What an amazing discovery process! Twitter truly creates unexpected connections.