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Why Will Readers Buy Coins?
Coins aren’t a silver bullet, but they offer a promising way to enable support, identity, and discovery — and could help build a more sustainable and rewarding internet for creative work.
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The Murky Picture for Growth
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For most of the past 15 years, the playbook for growing a consumer product was close to a science. We saw this up close at Hulu, Crunchyroll, and HBO Max. Each of those companies scaled by investing in similar growth functions:
- Audience development: growing followers and engagement on all social platforms, aimed at driving awareness and affinity for our brands.
- Lifecycle comms: using low-cost channels, like email & product notifications, to communicate with our "owned" audience to drive engagement.
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Casino apps are winning in crypto. Computer apps are struggling. Why? And is the Computer vision still worth building toward?
Are Coins Better at Enabling Patronage?
Below is the first in a series of posts that explores the best critiques on coins as a way to help writers get paid, and how that dovetails into some compelling opportunities and areas we'd love to experiment.
Mixing Coins & NFTs: Can Patronage and Speculation Coexist?
We look at how coins and limited-edition NFTs could combine to find the right balance of patronage and self-expression in a new, compelling way.
Can Microtransactions Work?
In this post, we look at the challenge of coins at a post-level, and scratch the surface on the types of experimentation we may see moving forward.
Why Will Readers Buy Coins?
Coins aren’t a silver bullet, but they offer a promising way to enable support, identity, and discovery — and could help build a more sustainable and rewarding internet for creative work.
Rethinking How Writers Get Paid
We’ve been thinking a lot about how to help writers earn money in new and meaningful ways, and how coins may play a role.
On Memecoins from a Skeptic
An attempt at better understanding why people are drawn to memecoins and starting to explore the worlds they could create.
Building Not Boring: A Conversation with Packy McCormick
For our second episode of Rough Draft, we’re thrilled to welcome Packy McCormick of Not Boring.
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