pras

gm

gm

understanding crypto markets is still one of the most overwhelming things builders face when they're trying to ship fast and stay solvent. here are a few resources I keep sending Web3 founders when they ask where to start: - on-chain analytics dashboards (Dune, Nansen) - crypto-native newsletters that actually track signal over noise - trading tools built for builders, not retail speculators - Hero falls here - founder communities that share real position data, not theory pick one from each category. go deep before you go wide.

Where I'd hunt for my first 100 users: • Product Hunt & Indie Hackers (obvious but work) • Reddit threads where your target hangs out • AlternativeTo & SaaSHub for comparison traffic • BetaList & MicroLaunch for early adopters • AppSumo if you can stomach the deal • G2, Capterra, GetApp for B2B credibility • LinkedIn posts (not DMs, nobody reads those) • Twitter replies to relevant threads • Producter & Peerlist for builder communities • StackShare for dev tools • Quora answers that actually help people • Discord servers in your niche • Substack collabs with newsletter writers • If AI tool: There's An AI For That, FutureTools, Uneed • App Store optimization if mobile Skip the spray and pray approach. Pick 3-4 channels, go deep.

this prompt will sharpen your entire crypto roadmap: --- Act as my Web3 product strategist with this context: - You've shipped trading platforms from zero to scale - You're brutally direct and skip the fluff - You understand retail trader psychology cold - You think in distribution, retention, and real revenue - not hype Your mission: - Identify the one feature killing my activation rate - Design the fastest path to liquidity and user trust - Call out where I'm optimizing vanity over retention For each response: - Lead with the hard truth about my product - Follow with 3 specific fixes I can ship this week - End with a challenge I can't ignore

Be careful with the idea that "any market can be rebuilt." Some windows are genuinely unrepeatable. Miss the inflection point, and no amount of execution recovers the timing. You don't get a second version of the moment when distribution is free and competition is blind. I watched it happen in digital art. Then in early blockchain adoption. Now I see it in crypto UX - which is why we're building Hero. You don't meet certain market moments twice.

skills every founder must have: - selling - coding (at least basics) - reading a cap table - shipping fast - hiring and firing - fundraising - managing up - building in public - saying no - reading a room - thinking in systems - handling rejection - writing clearly - understanding incentives - knowing when to pivot basically just be relentlessly useful. i'm not fully there yet. but i'm building toward it every day. foundermaxxing.

GM. Being early has always mattered. We’re doing a stealth early waitlist. We’re rewarding it very soon. Reply “HERO” to get early app access GTD waitlist + future perks🦸‍♂️ @TryHeroNow

I read this whitepaper so you don't have to. It's 40 pages of tokenomics jargon and vague "ecosystem alignment" language with zero actual product logic. Sample line: "Web3 empowers communities to co-create value in a trustless paradigm." Cool. What does your product actually do? Here's how you actually ship in crypto: Pick one user problem. Build the smallest version that solves it. Put it in front of real users this week. That's it. Iterate from there. Stop reading whitepapers written to impress VCs. Start shipping things that make users' lives simpler. The market doesn't reward vision documents. It rewards working products.

Go to these resources to understand crypto markets: - Messari - Delphi Digital - The Block - Bankless - Glassnode - CoinGecko Research - Nansen - Kaito - DeFi Llama - Decrypt - Wu Blockchain - Unchained - Token Terminal - Elliptic - CryptoSlate - The Defiant - Artemis - Empire Newsletter - Blockworks Research - Protos - 0xResearch - Milk Road - Crypto Briefing - On-chain Wizard - LooksRare Analytics Stop trading blind.

The overengineered product is worse off than the scrappy MVP, having traded user trust for the illusion of sophistication.

something wild happened in 7 years openai went from nonprofit scared to release gpt-2 to $730b company nvidia went from gaming gpus to $4.37t (most valuable company on earth) anthropic didn't exist in 2019, now worth $170b ai market cap: $41 trillion in 2019 ai was a cs elective now it's $300b/year infrastructure spend remote work was a negotiation point tiktok just launched in the us the internet's assumptions got dismantled in 84 months you would've called this science fiction

the state of crypto twitter in one dm found someone posting about prediction markets thought "cool, we're building in this space, let me share" not even a big account, just someone who seemed genuinely interested their reply: "what's in it for me?" that's where we're at now

Your edge in crypto comes from building systems that execute well. Your sanity comes from detaching from what the market does next.

been thinking about this for a while there are people who've had ideas stuck in their heads for years. ideas that don't make sense to anyone else. ideas that aren't "venture backable" or whatever 2026 is when all of those ideas finally get built AI agents don't judge. they just ship. they take your weird niche thing seriously and help you build it the internet is about to get way more interesting. all the impossible software suddenly becomes possible the builders who've been sitting on their wildest ideas? this is your year

Don't only learn how to code smart contracts and ship features. Also learn: - How markets actually behave - How people make financial decisions under pressure - How to read culture before it becomes a trend - Basic economic fundamentals Tools like @TryHeroNow can get you into the game. But the above keep you relevant when the market shifts.

my ai toolkit evolution: 2025 → 2026 research: chatgpt → gemini building: replit → claude code websites: lovable → google antigravity learning: coursera → notebooklm images: midjourney → nano banana the shift is real