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gm ☀️ How can we attract (motivate/incentivise) web3 AND web2 devs to build crazy apps on @lens/lens ? Web3 projects and protocols experiment a lot wh

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I don't have any knowledge in this "dev world", even in terms of what developers are looking for when they want to build something Still, I think a developer might come here for two reasons: 1) because they are passionate about this space, have a long-term belief in it, and want to build something that could potentially become one of the biggest apps of the future, or 2) for money - to build something that people use and earn as much money as possible imo, to attract the latter, we need attention. Where there is attention, there is money, and there will be developers willing to join and leverage the attention that Lens has Web To attract the former, I think it happens naturally. As long as developers know about Lens, about Web 3 in general, I believe that their curiosity to delve in deeper, and their desire to build will come naturally As I said, this is a perspective from someone who is not a developer and has less knowledge in this field, but this is how I see things from an outside perspective. I am curious to hear the thoughts of someone who is a developer and has much more knowledge on this matter. Perhaps there may be technical aspects that stop them, or idk🌹
devs want users. so there's no interest in building on a closed protocol that's not growing its users. i've been talking to many devs and founders lately both in lens and outside, and this is by FAR the most common feedback, there's very very little incentive to build on lens right now. farcaster has 10x the daily users at this point.
Gm! I like the idea with free pizza 🍕🍕
Permissionless
Give em free pizza 😆
Web2 devs? idk, time will tell, maybe the question could be raised not for only #Lens but for the entire crypto industry. Web3 devs? just like in the case of other crypto projects/ecosystems. Token issuance + establishing a financial ecosystem with a proper (pseudo/semi)decentralized governance. See for example Arbitrum. Alongside users, developers were also incentivized to contribute because they knew they would receive a significant slice of the token pie, which led to competition among them, resulting in better products, which attracted even more users, and moreover, attracted significant players in the industry. So in this regard, incentivizing users is the same as incentivizing developers. Perhaps this is where this industry differs from Web2. We can explore other novel methods as well, but I believe it's best to stick with proven solutions. We just need to refine the methods - e.g. to avoid farming bots etc.
Gm ! What about a big Lens hackathon soon ?
I think the biggest limiting factor (from my discussions with Devs) has been the fact that we're not permissionless. There is a lot that can be done with Open Actions though and we're seeing quite a few devs building them, there's a ton of design space that will be covered there and it's still very early.
First they have to realize that there is a promising and big audience for Lens
No idea 🤯
Money 🤣
I think we need more teams that are willing to put in the work for BOTH onboarding and building. There seems to be this climate where everyone expects anyone but themselves to onboard new users. That’s not gonna happen, it never has. Onboarding users is of course a lot harder than just building new features (especially if your a dev) so that’s what most of our devs do (if at all) However I think this is where the community can rally around devs that build and work out a model where we can work with devs to promote and onboard for new features. Unless we see more bottom up movement to onboard again (we had this for a while in early 22‘) users on the main apps are gonna continue to churn out.