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Getting your Web3 Social App approved by Apple
September 1st, 2022
Ah, the dreaded Apple review. Let’s go over the common reasons why Apple will reject your web3 social app.
Become an overfounder
July 29th, 2022
Overfounders are pseudonymous founders who are also full-time employees at another company. Many famous founders were overfounders at heart: Brian Armstrong started Coinbase as a solo side project in the after-hours of his Airbnb job in the era of office work. Recent cultural shifts in the tech industry make it possible to do “full-time remote” in as little as 5-15 hours of focused work, making the plunge to becoming an overfounder easier than ever. The overfounder lifestyle means avoiding unproductive distractions to maximize personal time - avoid unnecessary commuting, frivolous meetings, and line waiting. Order delivery for everything (items, groceries, pharmacy, food) so you can focus on building instead of chores. Execute your roles with precision, you could even get promoted while being an overfounder if you avoid unproductive side quests and focus on impact.
Indestructible Communities
May 31st, 2022
NFT communities are fragile in todays world: they can be delisted from OpenSea, removed from Discord and Reddit, and censored by web3 data APIs. Every community today hosted in web2 environments is under the thumb of an employee following an internal guideline.
BΞB Communities
May 8th, 2022
Communities today are siloed in rent-extracting platforms such as Discord, Patreon, Facebook Groups, and Reddit. The operators of a web2 community have no ownership rights, as they are tenants to a landlord who’s only incentive is to extract maximum profit from their communities users. Community migration is practically impossible in the web2 model, which is why we are building a community protocol to change this, making communities portable across web3 social networks.
The BΞB Community Protocol
May 7th, 2022
Communities are better defined on-chain, not in databases. We are revising our extensive drafts of the The BΞB Community Protocol and are opening a developer waitlist for web3 developers who want us to build with us once a testnet is up and running. In the meantime, make sure to join our current communities on BΞB!
Private NFT Communities
April 29th, 2022
Our mission at BΞB has been to connect people around a shared interest, and there’s no better way forward than to open up BΞB with private NFT communities. We started with private soulbound communities, and we are now dynamically generating communities around select NFT collections, starting with NF.TD, BlockChainSmokers, and Token Garden. We’re starting small to make sure each community we add to BΞB has alignment with our existing communities. If you want to talk about adding your NFT community to BΞB, please DM us at our Twitter!
Soulbound DAOs
April 8th, 2022
We’ve been using soulbound access NFTs on beb.xyz for our private groups, and we’ve been thinking on how to decentralize our professional social network in the future. We’ve realized we could potentially leverage soulbound NFTs to do some of our decision making one day. There are great advantages to operate a Soulbound DAO, which we’ll iterate below:
Invite-only soulbound NFTs for private professional groups
April 6th, 2022
We believe professional networking can greatly be improved on web3, so we are announcing three new invite-only free BΞB soulbound NFTs for our private professional groups on beb.xyz! The criteria is the following:
BΞB is for Private Professional Groups
March 24th, 2022
With the new redesign of BΞB today, we now have an emphasis on private professional groups rather than only focusing on professional networking, gated by different soulbound NFTs. We’re betting on private groups because we know people are much more comfortable sharing their personal opinions in private settings. We also know there are a diverse set of web3 people ranging from artists, investors, founders and more, and we want BΞB to serve everyone. The private beta group we are launching today is going to be broad, and we’re letting mostly everyone who was on our waitlist in with a beta soulbound NFT. From there, you can apply to the alpha group and the other groups we are introducing soon. We are also excited about rolling out attestations for our future groups, so even a freshly-created pseudonym can participate in an e.g. angel investor or engineer group.