adrienne

This was great. Few notes:

-  “you can build your own client” took a whole 90 seconds to come up 😂 
- on blocks: very logical reasoning for why at a certain scale blocks are a necessity. Even beyond the obvious harassment, if you can’t get rid of toxic behavior, all the good actors leave 
- on X cross posting. Was there really organ failure? I liked the experiment. I think it would work better for earnest posters than shit posters bc humor is very platform specific whereas knowledge is knowledge. 
- on channels- I think there are some lessons from VMS/vertical market software.  You’re trying to solve a niche with broad general solutions, but each channel will have its own specific features and behaviors. 

Great format for an AMA and quite impressive how Dan can monologue into a webcam so easily, though the fluency goes to show how much he must be thinking about these things, total founder mode in effect 😆

Great podcast on Vertical Market Software.

Enterprise software is broad and locks people in but no one is really happy because it doesn’t meet all their needs. But they have no choice. This creates an opportunity for vertical software to focus on one niche and do it better than the generalists. It’s not at venture scale but still a very good investment.

Re the channel opportunity:

 slack, telegram, discord, WhatsApp, Teams, etc. what do they all have in common? Everyone hates them.

For channels to win, might need to take a vertical approach to communities and cater to them. But it prob doesn’t fit into the need to turn it into a protocol so provably won’t happen :)

Great podcast on Vertical Market Software.

Enterprise software is broad and locks people in but no one is really happy because it doesn’t meet all their needs. But they have no choice. This creates an opportunity for vertical software to focus on one niche and do it better than the generalists. It’s not at venture scale but still a very good investment.

Re the channel opportunity:

 slack, telegram, discord, WhatsApp, Teams, etc. what do they all have in common? Everyone hates them.

For channels to win, might need to take a vertical approach to communities and cater to them. But it prob doesn’t fit into the need to turn it into a protocol so provably won’t happen :)

https://x.com/age_shulman/status/1679908703518982157?s=46