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hot take: pre-product tokens are a distraction, and should be avoided until you have built out the stickiness in your product. 

The bandwidth you've to give to manage the community + price action can be better used elsewhere

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100% agree with all your points. If you really need it, you can go the launch route. Like someone was just saying, token is also a product and then you have to ensure that the holders are having a good time

Lots of pressure for an early stage product

Certainly creates noise but can also enable you, help you to get buy-in, support - but should likely never overindex on low-quality/contributing community people.

For different projects, different builders one way or the other makes sense: build to get fair high valuation, hype to get high valuation and have the resources to build.

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The community will end up being quite different if there’s a token involved from day 1. 

Superteam, for example, did very well. There was never a token involved. You could make money still but not through a token. That got them enough glass chewers to make a dent in the ecosystem.

If they launched a token early on to incentivise community members, a lot of farmers would fill up the space