Design

a few months ago i had an exciting but overwhelming startup idea, and a few weeks ago i casually mentioned it to a dev i know from farcaster, and he said, “i want to build this with you.”

it still feels unreal, but here we are.

so i had a call today with a designer he was already working with (also from farcaster) — the first meeting just to get to know each other.

i asked if they could turn on their camera, but they said no.

“what’s the point of a first call if we can’t even see each other?”

two minutes later, we agreed it wasn’t going to work.

now, i’m curious: 

is it common in crypto to work with people who prefer to stay faceless? would you start a project with someone who refuses a video call?

also, still looking for a designer

Classical musician and educator with psychology qualification. humansdid.com ambassador https://paragraph.xyz/@katekornish

Sounds like good instincts on your behalf. Especially given all the recent news with clanker

Id say it’s relatively common for devs to want to remain publicly faceless so they can maintain privacy. But if they’re that secretive on an intro call it’s probably a red flag

building @emptyblock / art, music, onchain data / prev director of research @coinmetrics

Long story short, one of the founders of clanker who goes by  “proxystudio” had remained anonymous and publicly faceless, even though he had a pretty big following here on Farcaster 

But yesterday it was revealed that he was actually the same guy who used to go by the name “gabagool,” who had previously stolen $325k from a different project 

So he had basically remained anonymous on Farcaster so people wouldn’t be able to figure out that he had previously stolen money. But then someone recognized him at irl at Farcon and alerted the clanker team, and they immediately removed him from the project

yeah, i don’t have a problem with that…but not if we want to make a big project together…

btw i couldn’t understand what happened to clanker??