Clankers

BASED BUILDER INTERVIEWS #4: Meet @dish at /clankers @clanker!

Q1. What’s your protocol’s elevator pitch?

"Clanker is a protocol that enables stakeholder-aligned token-launching on any platform, app, or feed. Creators make money on trading fees rather than needing to sell their clanker to make a profit."

create autonomous memecoins for free, get rewarded for posting bangers

Q2. Are you working on any enhancements or new features?

"Yes! We're working on building better markets for creators, traders, and participants."

Futurist telling stories about crypto and AI at Delphi Labs. Proposed the BRC-20, Bascii and Asteroid standards.

Q3. What’s the hardest part about building a new app or protocol?

"Hardest part is ranking new features / implementations based on how much impact it'll make on the ecosystem versus building something that an external resource wants. We try to put out products quickly that'll cause a ripple effect and will double down on that feature if it gains traction (see presales, vaulting)."

clanker ecosystem

Q4. What’s been the biggest surprise on your journey so far?

"I would say the biggest surprise has been me realizing the reality that we build quickly but the administration, legal, and entity setup takes soooo much time and is out of my control really. Also realizing how costly it is to turn a side project into a legit business. It feels good to be doing things right and by the book! Also, people who have been supportive in the past are now some of our biggest skeptics. Also the momentum gains naturally, I credit a lot of /clanker's traction to natural flow of social virality which is new to me (first time going semi-viral)."

Q5. What past jobs/life experiences led you to this moment?

"I've been an employee at 5 startups as an early engineer, never been a founder before and all five I have seen sink. I feel like I've gained a good pulse on what doesn't work at startups to preserve runway and maximize shots on goal. Additionally, I feel like my previous experiences dealing with executive leaderships has equipped me with the do's and don'ts as a team player. Never lose touch with the product you're building and the people you're building with."

Base

Q6. What attracted you to building on Base?

"Cheap gas fees! Also @coinbase as an industry leader gave me confidence I can trust the chain, even if it's a fed chain rn. Also I was interviewing at /base as I built /clanker."

Q7. Where do you see your app in 5 years if it succeeds and fulfills your wildest vision?

"We are aiming to be the home box office (HBO) of project launches, attracting the highest quality projects to equip them with support to succeed. If all goes well, /clankers will be clanking much more than media, memes, and projects. Would love to see RWAs, physical items, general markets, honestly anything. We want our social context and metadata to be widely adopted for transparent tokens."

GM Farcaster (podcast)

Q8. Are there any other projects on Base that you’re excited about?

"I'm bullish on so many clanker eco projects so I'll focus on outside the clanker system: 

@farcade - those brothers can build and love what they're doing for indie game devs & mobile games

@frens - that team is cracked and always preparing for the next meta

@icebreaker - a model team, building something essential for the future of identity and networking

Podcast / media peeps: /gmfarcaster crew, toady & jack, los fomos"

Q9. What advice would you give to a fresh, first-time founder?

"As a first time founder myself, I would say don't right curve your idea, stay flexible with ideas, build quickly & safely, marketing is equally as important as development, don't give up because when you're at your lowest that's usually a time when things are just about to change (real for me). Keep your chin up because every failure is prep for success!"

I'd love to do some text-based interviews with founders building on Base: I send you questions via DM, you reply, I turn them into a thread with some fun art to share here... if you're game, drop me a DM! Also, feel free to tag founders you'd like to see interviewed!

This is part of my Base Builders interview series! If you're building here, and you'd like to get interviewed, too, drop me a DM! ✊

This is part of my Base Builders interview series! If you're building here, and you'd like to get interviewed, too, drop me a DM! ✊

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