lots of people asking this privately but no one asking publicly

why is everyone so angry we don’t have any crypto apps

and why did we abandon integrating or transferring existing apps to be onchain

why the obsession with net new apps

[i have my own answer but steelmanning is good thought experiment for us all]

/ted | exploring the onchain frontier | surfing @ venice, ca | eating @ gjusta / gjelina

1. no solid reason to shift just because it's onchain. casual audience don't know/care what it is.

2. bringing existing web2 apps onchain eventually have to reach the audience outside this space once the peak hits - which boils down to user questioning what's the difference and why i should care about this - they're good where they are.

3. if the core of the product has enough pull (considering crypto space has solved for onboarding enough already) can bring people to use and they're by default onchain without actually showing a difference.

it's easier to take a net new app with a core reason to 'use and come back' than transferring people from existing apps to an onchain one.

these also could be just apps tapping into existing behaviors and not completely 'new'.

better remove 'it's onchain' and convey it as just an app that does xyz cool thing.