Contrarian: we need actual apps people find useful. Everyone wants to build infrastructure but very few are building actual apps.
I agree with your statement. But also at the same time, not everything needs to be on web3. Many people are happy using web2 services/app so there has to be a value prop to switch or start to learn a new app. With that being said, yes not many actual useful apps at the moment!
Yes, please. Preferably those that solve real problems too
I am going to write a blog piece about this. I think web3's biggest issue is that people are mimicking the 2010's and everyone wants to build a platform and sell shovels during a gold rush, but no one is building apps. This should be an apps golden age. I think we need a shift.
Agreed; the whole reason I started Join is the lack of off-ramping apps that aren’t a CEX — I’ll always prefer a clean app to a shoddy UI on top of complicated infrastructure
100% agree on this. Too much focus on infra, tokens, picks and shovels, not enough focus on useful apps and experiences.
Yes. > First, apps inspire infrastructure. Then that infrastructure enables new apps. https://www.usv.com/writing/2018/10/the-myth-of-the-infrastructure-phase/
Contrarian: we need actually useful infrastructure, and not just useless infrastructure made faster. Everyone wants to build useless infrastructure that’s faster. No one building actually useful infrastructure. Until that happens, web3 apps are nearly all useless, because web2 beats those in every way.