When it Clicks, it Clicks

I’ve been working on some new stuff at over the past month or so. We’re actually getting a lot of traction, and I’m very happy that it’s coming together this way.

Here’s what really worked:

• Using sweat to support my burn via consulting - doing around ~10ish hours a week of this

• Building projects on the side that are cheap to build, high upside

• Not taking VC funding - this actually is awesome because it *resets* the bar. Any bit of traction already means success

This is via my new co, Thrive - https://thrivepointgroup.com

Our first project is higherrrrrrr - it’s a really cool new crypto primitive and exchange. The tl;dr is that these are assets that “evolve“ as the price changes. It’s also a new exchange for these assets. You can read about it on the site’s protocol page, also all of the code is OSS for the protocol

Week one stats since launch:

• $2m in protocol volume

• ~$25k in protocol revenue

• $10s of millions is secondary volume on the assets

• >10m site visits

• Core community of thousands

• Top assets are held by thousands of people

Cool thing - it’s already very profitable and can just build. No VCs at all. For a VC backed startup this would be a good start, but not “successful“. The cool thing about doing it solo is it’s already a home run. Only up from here. And when time comes I can just roll it into the community via a token launch.

The philosophy is just to do a bunch of these. I think it’s repeatable. My personal burn is very low, and I just love building.

For me, sometimes when it clicks, it really clicks. This was one of those cases. Think I figured out my new mode of building.

If this sounds interesting, go load up on some of the coins. There are a lot of options depending on what you’re looking for (trigger warning, a few push boundaries, but we’re moderating) - alpha

Hope everyone is having a good week. Keep building.

- Carl