Lounge S3: Designers

🪐 Building @neynar, join us in /neynar

weird internet kid. helping Creators with /seemore. yapping on /okbanger. curating in /creators and /cameron. dev + veteran + HBS. 
seemore.tv/cameron 🫡

@cameron running some cool experiments on /lounge, excited to participate

1. How did I discover Farcaster? 

Dan was tweeting in 2021 looking for alpha testers for a closed product. @manan responded to Dan and also got me to join. 

working @ /neynar   🪐  casting @ /rish

2. Previous career highlights:

- Launching initial version of MS Teams, growing to 1M MAU, now their numbers are stupidly large comparatively and overtook Slack at some point

- Growing FB Messenger into a multi $B business

- Building Coinbase Earn from couple thousand to millions of MAU, $0 -> $100M ARR business

Neynar

4. How did we get first 10 users?

Threw up a landing page with a stripe checkout link and people started paying within the first couple hours. We stayed up the night to get the product out to them. 

From there on -- shipping, talking to customers, iterating 🔁

3. What am I currently working on?

/neynar - farcaster infrastructure + no code frames

neynar.com 

Building Nounworks.wtf at BIGSHOT.WTF and  @bigshottoyworks on socials

it used to be a product that let you learn about crypto in different ways (simple lessons + advanced tasks) and earn crypto in return 

today, it encompasses the entire suite of "earning" that includes staking APY, etc.