Founders

Some things that other apps can learn from pumpdotfun

Before I begin please note that this is a product focused analysis

1. Visibility leads to familiarity, which leads to trust. 

Many degens like seeing the CA end with “pump.” Traders use CA’s to recognize where a token is launched from. Over time, seeing “pump” at the end of the address ensures that it is a contract launched with unruggable liquidity (a PF feature)

2. Founder led marketing. 

Alon would relentlessly DM, engage with the community, and use his own app. You have to be a power user of your own product. 

3. Spend 95% of your time on the thing that you do best 

Self explanatory. Site changes etc have been minimal. The thing just works. The pools just migrate etc. 

4. Kingmake your dependencies 

PF kingmade raydium. Don’t spray and pray for 50 dependencies, find your best one and double down. I see this issue happen a lot with Ethereum apps right now, too many dependencies that do the same thing. Let your winners ride instead.

lore @optimism | ex: @coinbase | views are my own | what if it all worked out? 

How would you reliably accomplish #1 on the EVM? It’s not trivial to create a vanity address let alone continuously produce the same beginning/ending characters. How could one build trust at a glance the same way?