frameboard

We’re winding down Frameboard 🖼🛹✌

Here’s a thread of our journey, mistakes, lessons, and everything in between—hoping it helps others building in crypto.

Exploring what's next. Eating tacos in /austin. Founded /launchcaster. YC + CSX alum.

If you went back to the start, knowing what you know now, how would you have pressure tested more whether it was “a solution in search of a problem”?

Building something new. Write @ TheItinerant.io ; BenErsing.com Host: /venturecapital /finance /adventures

So many learnings here I’d love to unpack. 

Here’s two:

4. How would you (or someone) build an experience for one person without a product?

Was there a point where you had a sense it wasn’t going to work and you could have pivoted hard, but decided to push through? If yes, what drove that decision?

Here are a handful of things I would’ve done differently to avoid SISPing:

1. Ask if we or people we know have this problem.
2. Talk to 10-20 crypto creators and people who collect content frequently. 
3. Get feedback from crypto friends and investors before building.
4. If all that above checks out, create a cool experience for a single curator before building a full product.

I think we would've grown skeptical by being honest about 1; struggled to find conviction after 2.A and likely killed it or taken a different path by 3. 

It's easy to say in hindsight, but the truth is we’d been grinding for a few years and desperate to find signs of PMF. In the moment, shipping felt like a faster path to learnings than more research.