Last week we announced $7m in pre-seed financing for Airstack (makers of web3 developer APIs and the Jam app for Farcaster)

Today: Ask Me (literally) Anything 




Maker of Airstack: The easiest way to build on Farcaster. Frames SDK. Frames APIs. No-code Frames. Onchain Composability APIs | airstack.xyz | hihi! 


Non developer?
Got a hunger for growth?

We are looking for passionate and technical community leaders to join the Airstack core GTM team

✨ Head of Growth
✨ Developer Relations Lead
✨ Business Development Manager

First, we had reasonable expectations relative to the market. These are not the days of $10m or $30m pre product pre seed rounds. 

We set out to raise $2M August last year; that was all we felt we needed to launch the product in beta in March this year; we ended up getting $3.5M in commits... longcast.jam.so/jjEdxq

Building /unjumble + tinkering and thinkering; going /hard

Thanks for the congrats! 

We think of Airstack and Jam as akin to AWS and Amazon. Having Amazon as the first and best customer enabled/pushed AWS to be amazing and fast, ahead of the competition

I don't choose favorites amongst our children :)

How do you split your time between Airstack and Jam? Long term, which of the two are you most excited about?

Also congrats on the raise!

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Tbh mostly working harder on next releases, proving we’re worthy of and good stewards of the funds, and hiring more team members

What are you and the team doing to celebrate?

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not delivering a return to Fab shareholders (was once valued as a unicorn, resulted in a great spinout company hem.com but Fab itself never delivered the return we all hoped for)

Regret is way too strong of a word so soften it. What's your biggest professional regret?

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it's a very very challenging fundraising environment

We raised half the pre-seed in Aug/Sept last year and the other half just now

What made the difference both times was having live product

Even then it's a very challenging environment

With each fundraise you have to think what the... longcast.jam.so/jjnBFL

has it been easy raising fund in this market? tips for others considering raising?

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Sorry, not particularly. Investor meetings don’t usually veer too far from the project being discussed 

Throughout the raising process, did you discover any new or surprising problems in the web3 space that investors value and the ecosystem would benefit from being solved (and that don’t compete with Airstack…maybe even complement it)? 


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Happy to! Message me on telegram @jasongoldberg

Will you come on my show and talk about it?

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👋 naming is really important to me. My companies have included Fab, Hem, Pepo, Ost, Moxie, and now Airstack and Jam -- i like them short and impactful. 

We did all the naming internal @ipeciura.eth is the naming master and has a process 

Jam was originally called Purple - because a lot of people... longcast.jam.so/jjIK8L

@betashop.eth how did you arrive at the name Jam for your FC Client product? 

Do you have any decisions making steps or frameworks available in public to better understand what inspired this name? 

Was there a predilection for Jelly or Marmalade? Did you work with any outside branding agency? 

Why Airstack? Why now?

Blockchain data analyst. Interested in data science and blockchain.

Analysis -https://dune.com/yesyes, https://paragraph.xyz/@yesyes



We get this question a lot 

Airstack is foremost a develops platform not an analytics tool. We want to be the first choice of devs to build data aware apps that can easily interoperate with the web3 ecosystem — we’re not trying to rebuild or compete with Dune or Nansen 

Right now we are... longcast.jam.so/jjEocN

I gotta ask - do you see yourself launching a dashboarding tool that helps people make dashboards out of airstack queries?

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It really depends from product to product

Airstack came from thinking about the enormity of traversing blockchain data and thinking of it as virtual stacks of data = airstack

Jam came from roots as "Purple" and thinking of words that were associated somewhat with the color purple but also had more meaning

How did you come up with the names for your products?

Working on /niche-internet
Building @kiwi 
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That's a great question

For now we're looking at regular users of Jam as a % of total/regular Farcaster protocol users

We're currently at about 1000 installs of Jam apps for iOS and Android which is a fine start considering the # of overall FC users and weekly actives

Over the next few... longcast.jam.so/jjdlLB

How do you set and monitor your growth goals @ Jam when one of the most critical factors for your app - Farcaster protocol DAUs - is partially outside your control?

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Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!

We have 7 open roles 
https://www.airstack.xyz/#hiring-section-new

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In the future, yes 

We debated starting with a decentralized infrastructure but we heard from potential customers/users that they cared a lot more about speed & reliability rn vs. decentralization -- so we optimized on performance to start and will decentralize over time

Any plans to decentralize your infrastructure?

What’s your short/medium/long term thesis for why you’re building in web3?

What new functionality that Airstack enables today makes you most excited about its future?

What were your communicated goals for the first half of the pre-seed? 

What was the forcing function that made you decide to stop with the first half and continue building before raising again? 

Lastly did you set out to raise the total of (first + second) or did you decide more was needed & started raising again

Are there any opportunities for primarily Java/Gradle experienced devs? If not, are there any ways to contribute/gain experience for opportunities that do exist?

Woah congrats! No questions just congrats 🤩