I think I have spent at least 10yr directly or indirectly grappling with the unsustainable nature of creative output (music, photography, “content,” whatever)

ultimately it’s just a black pill to swallow that most content is not going to be profitable to produce unless you’re top 1% or higher

Farcaster-native research: https://paragraph.xyz/@matthewb | prev. Juicebox, Nouns, RAW DAO | casting about coffee, hi-fi, and other rabbit holes

Building /stokefire a mobile strategy game onchain. Run and own poolfish.xyz a calculator for LP providers. Built Potion solo and sold for $300k.

re: the latter, imo the average person does not have enough niche knowledge and expertise to truly command an audience with their “hobby.” but yes the desire is probably universal to some extent.

Yeah that is tough. And this getting harder with ai.

We would all like to make our hobbies our job.

co-host of /music // musician + dj // photographer // internet money // venture curious // cars // inside wireman

enough so that you aren’t working 8-12hr/day on other things, which largely prevents you from producing new things

Define profitable? 

Make profit? 

Or sustainable main source of income?

You can also be in the top 1% of living artists and get washed by some kid who makes good reels

This is what onchain potential could solve. Align incentives with early believers, fund niche creativity but we’re not there yet