Drunk confession time: At the height of the bull market I was accepted into Startup with Chainlink and IMMEDIATELY thrown into meetings with tier 1 VCs like DCG, Stratus, Delphi, IOSG. Like a baby thrown into the deep end I was 100% alone, forced to swim, knowing NOTHING about the VC game...

decentralized, community-owned, platform-agnostic protocol akin to DNS/ENS except for tags & tagging. 

app.ets.xyz /tagcaster

Sixteen meetings later, I was told that either “you need to get a biz dev guy” or “ETS has no moat”. Either way, it hit hard and I was devastated. I drowned. That was last October, right in time for the crypto winter...

Four months later, today, there’s sparks and I’m taking meetings again, gladly telling people about my humble and potentially groundbreaking project. One thing continues to be constant: everyone I show ETS to (including the 16 VCs) is intrigued by its potential...

The path forward for ETS remains unclear. I’m out of funds, hesitant to re-engage with VCs and unsure of the next move. That said, I love this community. I’m inspired by the bleeding edge spirit and happy to meet with anyone and demo what ETS can do. Please reach out if you're curious.

Even though I was spent, I still had the gut feeling there was “something” to the concept of a decentralized tagging layer. So, in the interest of survival, rather than throwing away three years of work, I open sourced everything, wrote up some docs, and put the project on the back burner...