Will web3 companies be able to monetise well one day?

I see a huge number of web3 companies that I just don’t understand how they’ll make money. 

Even if what they’re doing is important.

Building getinboxzero.com and sharemint.xyz.

I also run a YouTube channel, "Learn from Open Source": youtube.com/elie2222 

are there any you'd be willing to name?

I didn't understand how social media would monetize back in the 2000's, I just didn't understand it well enough... sometimes it feels a little like that these days. tho the business models are entirely different.

I wonder if it's the same mentality of figuring it out as we go?

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I hear you. Very hard to predict the future. Wallets is one category I would have found hard to monetise a few years back but MetaMask has made a tonne. Ledger too from its Ledger Live app.
Others like Rainbow and Zengo will probably struggle for a while but will probably get there eventually

Analytics type services. Alchemy makes money i assume. But many of the up and coming ones seem like they’ll struggle.

And I see a bunch of random companies just offering free services and just think your runway is gunna runout eventually

The challenges with web3 seem to be:
Race to zero
Open source

There’s a bunch of apps that add security to your txs. That’s an example that could be hard.

Mirror and Paragraph id be curious to see what they can do.

Farcaster I’m more hopeful on because it’s just Twitter and that can monetise.

Most tokens don’t have real revenue. Even the likes of uniswap (which at le