This article is meant for my 15-year-old self to explain why i went every day to push on poles when i could hit the snowpark instead. Hey kid, please forgive me.
Two years ago I wrote about the death of the web. That article Web is Dead made it to the front page of Hacker News and it seemed that a decent amount of people got the idea and were excited about it.
On the 3rd of March the website was live, the NFTs ready and the contracts deployed. But nothing happened: we had cancelled the crowdfunding campaign for our crypto.coliving project. Here lies the post-mortem.
Iâve been on a sabbatical for more than a year, and thought it was time to write about it. Iâm doing it in French for once, because itâs easier to speak from the heart in your mother tongue.
Back in October 2018 I started a note with the title "The Web is Dead" while being part of the startup studio called eFounders. I was working on what is now Multis (crypto stuff) and also spending time surrounded by other startups building products on the web. Serendipity was ubiquitous. Especially when I'd go for a coffee walk around the 9th arrondissement with my wordsmith friend Jonathan. I probably started the note after an intense debate about Intercom (more on that later).