what can ppl learn from friend.tech ? good ponzu, good tech

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I saw it a few days ago and was repulsed by the need to force the user to homescreen the site to get started. The TAM is obviously people already in crypto and not looking forward to onboard crypto noobs, it makes a ton of assumptions on the user and their preferences. Before seeing what the thing is about, 1/2

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3/2 :) but but I like that it’s provocative and different. Because who cares about the status quo and serving a billion users? I think there should be enough different services that no app/service should abide by traditional UX standards. Maybe the bar should be “if you don’t like look elsewhere”. New paradigms

2/2 I had to jump through a ton of hoops, one of which is Twitter’s shitty oauth flow. The twitter linking experience isn’t smooth — it usually is better on web anyways. So tldr: not knowing the value I don’t want to overinvest, so early dropoff. Needs more user education and dumbed down UX.