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What’s the highest leverage decision you‘ve made for yourself personally and your business?

Farcaster Development Boutique @ https://dTech.vision 💜 in love with tech 🤓decentralization, fitness and oldschool rap 😎

Buy Vs Build when it comes to indexing blockchain data (of any kind)

cooking @askgina.eth | prev: blockchain research @coinbase | sidshekhar.com | askgina.ai

you're now buying or building? :D walk me through it please

buying! Used to run a blockchain analytics company from 2017-2020. Generally think most chains are pretty well indexed now - it's just a matter of tapping into the right tooling rather than trying to build from scratch for a particular use case (i.e in our case for an agent)

Using echo atm for Gina (thanks to @mats and team)!
Would love to learn more about what you're building @runninyeti.eth (thx for the suggest).

Good q: Generally the thought process is:
- what is the core hypothesis we want to prove
- what is the core tech that is not being built elsewhere that we can focus on to prove the hypothesis
- Look to buy/subscribe for all things other than that (provided it doesn't lead to extreme vendor lock in/inflexibility down the road)

I think there's a growing perception now that with Cursor agent + a few hours, most of the services provided by SaaS vendors can be built easily. 

This is definitely not the case with blockchain data indexing but even with simpler services, it's very hard to discount the SLAs, maintenance costs, and general overhead when building vs just buying when it's not exorbitantly expensive.

You‘ll love @mats dune echo and @runninyeti.eth indexing co then!!!

What are your favorite thought patterns when deciding buy vs build ? And then making the down stream decisions ?