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Building your business on the open-protocol freedom stack makes the laws irrelevant to the propogation and realization of the idea. It's the only way to have a chance at true success.

Especially in the age of AI; reach and brand will be all that makes or breaks an idea eventually.

Highly recommend for the builders out there:

People are too focused on growing Nostr the protocol itself when they should instead be focused on growing their specific application of the technology and finding/serving real, targeted user needs.

I think B) gets solved by the builders/devs actively focusing on also building a broad audience/community specific to a problem being solved themselves, not just outsourcing that to a happenstance shoutout from someone well known or hoping the app they built gets traction on the merits of the tech alone.

The Shawshank Redemption or The Social Network.

Yes! A lot of good tidbits of insight and reframings in that book.

Shane Gillis!

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