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FINAL WORKSHOP: Reaching the Solana Mobile Audience
Recorded: March 5, 2026 Duration: 1:16:25Space Recording
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we are live i believe um i'm gonna stay muted on the stream mostly because my nice microphone
decided to break on me uh and now i have a laptop mic that hears all of my uh fan noises from my
computer so thank you um yeah so we got akshay in here uh For those of you who don't know, he is the BD and ecosystem lead for Solana Mobile.
And he's going to give us a pretty short presentation
on reaching the Solana Mobile audience.
And then if we have any questions
or if anybody wants advice on their pitch
or any of that stuff, this is the place to do that.
We'll be around for roughly an hour.
Akshay might dip out early if he needs to,
but we'll be here. And then after the workshop, I will be going to the gym, and then I'll be back for the rest of the day to help you with the things that you need. And I think that's all
we got. Feel free to take it away. Lib, are we good on the stream? Works. I'm on my way in. My
On the street, works.
I'm on my way in.
My X isn't loading.
Oh, fun.
Okay, I'll go check if it's on.
But you should be good to start, actually.
This will be recorded anyway.
Okay, sounds good.
Yeah, thanks for the introduction.
And for anyone listening,
yeah, this is the last workshop of the Monolith Hackathon.
Pretty exciting and super, super keen and honestly super excited to see
all of the cool stuff that is being built uh we were just at mountaindale like a couple weeks ago
um and uh yeah we were chatting with the with the team internally but you know we went to mountaindale
i think uh in august last year and we asked people like hey like do you have a mobile app
are you building anything for Solana Mobile?
And I think like maybe 30% of the people we spoke to was like, yeah, this past one we went to like, I think around like 90% of the people were like, yep, we're building for Solana Mobile.
And we're also submitting to the hackathon.
So just having a few chats with those individuals, I think the caliber and quality of stuff that's probably going to be in this hackathon is going to be super awesome to see.
So with that, yeah, I'm going to jump into a quick introduction of myself.
I wanted to chat just about reaching the Solana mobile audience overall.
So yeah, my name is Akshay. I handle business development and ecosystem for Solana mobile.
Before this role, I was focused on marketing.
So any of the shitty tweets that you saw
probably last year from the Solana mobile account were all coming from me but yeah yeah now my main
focus is really just getting as many great apps onto the Solana dApp store as possible helping
teams position themselves in front of our users and yeah I mean one thing you'll notice pretty
quickly is like, I think any
startup team, right? It's like BD, marketing, developer marketing, they kind of all overlap
a lot and the lines get put pretty blurry between them. So if you're in a Telegram group with us,
you'll probably see me, Mike Solistio, or Magellan answering questions, sometimes about each other's
roles, because a lot of what the work we do is interconnected. So yeah I've been at Solana Mobile basically since the
beginning. I actually joined I think three days after the saga went on sale so
I've been with the community pretty much since its inception. Since then I've
worked with honestly like a couple hundred teams across the ecosystem
helping them get their apps ready for the Dapp Store, figuring
out how we can position them in the best way possible for our users.
And yeah, so today I'm just going to talk about a little bit about how teams can effectively
reach the Solana mobile audience.
And I'm going to go to the next slide.
I want to make sure that you guys can see the next slide.
Okay, sounds good.
Okay, sounds good.
Yeah, so this slide kind of gives you a sense of what the Seeker base actually is today,
and actually looks like today.
So I would say right now we have over like 115,000 active users across the ecosystem.
We've sold over like 160,000 phones.
There's like a delta between people who have activated their phone and for some reason just keeping it in their boxes. So if you have your phone, if you have your seeker in a box, like go open it. Like, like there's a lot of cool stuff that you can now like participate in. And so on a typical basis, we're kind of seeing around like 12 to 15,000 daily active users, and roughly like 50 to 60,000 monthly active users. Those numbers continue to
grow, obviously, as the ecosystem expands. But the more important thing to understand isn't
just like the size of the user base. It's like who these users actually are. So the typical
seeker user is honestly like an early adopter, right? like these are people who like download wallets the day they launch they try new DeFi tools they just want to be
somewhere before anyone else really I'm like you know they like to play
experimental games before the broader market even hears about them there's a
couple cool seeker only exclusives that we have and those generally tend to do
the best so yeah
these individuals are really just like curious and willing to try new things
which makes them incredibly valuable users for builders right but it also
means they have a pretty strong radar for things that feel forced or overly
corporate this the seeker audience tends to respond best to projects that feel
like authentic you know crypto native and built for the ecosystem.
And yeah, I would say overall when teams lean into that, whether it's through incentives, community engagement, or on-chain experiences, the response from our user base is really strong.
I'm going to go to the next one.
I think, let me give it a second.
Yeah, I think you guys should be able to see this now,
but I wanted to chat about like discovery actually happening
inside the Solana mobile ecosystem.
So there's a few core channels where users typically find new apps.
The first one is obviously the Solana Dapp Store,
which acts really as the main entry point for the ecosystem.
Right now we have just over 600 apps in the App Store, I mean in the Solana App Store, and that number is growing pretty quickly.
But, you know, even with 600 apps, like, you're not really competing for nearly as much real estate as you would on something like Apple or like the Google Play Store. So honestly, if you have like a strong product and people are talking about it,
you can still get a lot of visibility regardless of like if you're placed in the carousel
or not placed in the carousel.
And the second and honestly, probably the strongest discovery engine, I would say, is X.
A lot of narratives in crypto and like crypto overall start there.
And that's where users first hear about new projects.
So my advice to a lot of teams and a few of the teams that we spoke to at Mountain Dow
really technically sound.
But then when I would ask them about their marketing and what they have, they're like,
we don't have a marketing person.
We're looking to add on someone.
So yeah, I think X is super strong for that.
And investing your time into growing your Twitter presence and building an audience there can really make a huge difference.
Alongside, you know, I think Discord is really important. That's usually where like your your most engaged users live.
If you look at the Solana mobile Discord today, we have like our most active power users.
And those are the guys that are generally giving us like the feedback that like we like to iterate
on. It's where support happens. It's where feedback happens, where like you can really just
hang out with like people who really like your product, right? And it's like someone is willing
to take time out of their day and their busy schedule to just spend some time in their in
your discord and like, be like, hey hey like this is something that I would like
to see done like definitely like you know that's that's that's really strong for users
overall and I think there's a lot of value there.
I think overall like a lot of traffic tends to come from like social platforms like ecosystem
announcements and word of mouth between users.
When people in the community start recommending an app to each other, that's usually when
you see the strongest growth.
It's interesting, when Seeker was still coming into the scene, I was really pushing Seeker
with threads and a bunch of stuff, just yelling it from the mountaintops.
And now, honestly, it's one of the most humbling and awesome things to see. It's like, I can go on Twitter today and like,
there's like people around the world that are writing threads on like their favorite apps,
they're writing threads on their favorite experiences. And these people aren't even
like KOLs, right? Like these are just like people that just like the ecosystem and want to talk
about their experience overall. So yeah growing your growing your twitter presence and
growing like an audience is going to be super effective for you guys especially as you like
think to build out your product and like what you're doing overall
and then um yeah i think you guys should be able to see this one now so um yeah i would say like
one of the biggest growth levers on solana Mobile is and Seeker overall is incentives, right?
I think a simple way to think about this is like traditional apps.
So, I mean, like when you download like a McDonald's app, right, you get like a free Big Mac or like whatever burger that the CEO was just eating or not eating.
But in other examples, like when you download a clothing brands app and you
see like you might get 15% off if you purchase from within the app. Those incentives are meant
to get you in the door. I would say like crypto probably works in a pretty similar way, just with
different mechanics, right? I'd say like users in the crypto space are used to participating in
ecosystems where their activities actually are awarded. Some people don't like that, but I think that is the nature of the world we
live in. But that could be token rewards, that could be XP systems, leaderboards, or
competitions. Those type of mechanics tend to drive a lot of engagement. Now, where things
get even more interesting is when teams build seeker-exclusive experiences.
And I feel like people always ask me
what the best incentive is.
And I mean, the honest answer, which is both shocking
and not shocking at all, it's free money.
People love that, and that obviously works.
But I usually don't recommend that unless a team really
wants to go that route. I'm very well aware that like most of the teams building in our ecosystem
are smaller like indie teams and like I mean they just like people just don't have like you know
thousands of dollars to just distribute to users so instead I usually just encourage teams to think
about like creative incentives right like like like creative use use use cases for like SKR, things like badges, XP boost, competitions,
leaderboards, or exclusive features.
Users, like I said, you know,
like they really like to feel like they're early to something.
So when apps include rewards, like gameplay mechanics,
or features that are specifically built for Solana mobile users,
participation tends to go up a lot.
Yeah, we've seen things like SKR integrations,
exclusive rewards, competitions,
and mobile native mechanics perform really well.
And I would say generally that the projects
that lean into this type of activation
and build experiences specifically for Seeker
and the Solana mobile ecosystem,
they generally tend to see, I would say, the best results.
...words, like gameplay ecosystem, they generally tend to see, I would say, the best results.
Or it's like gameplay mechanics or features. And so I just jumped into the new slide.
And yeah, this is really just talking about how we support teams from like a marketing
and ecosystem standpoint and like a few general like do's and don'ts that we've learned along the way. I would say on like the social amplification side, right? Like we're always happy to help
amplify launches when possible. I would say right now we've gotten like a huge influx of apps on
the app store. I mean, like, and that's a great problem to have. Don't get me wrong. But like
also our telegram is just flooded. Our discord is flooded with teams looking for amplification and just support.
But yeah, whenever possible, we'd love to help amplify.
And that usually comes in the form of retweets or mentions from the Solana mobile account.
Sometimes coverage within the Solana mobile newsletter that we send out monthly.
I think that has an open rate right now of of around like 60 to 70,000 opens.
So yeah, people are generally like viewing that.
And we also feature apps inside the Dapp Store carousel, which can help drive additional visibility.
And I honestly think that's my Discord sound going on in the back, but I don't have too much longer.
So just bear with me while that thing drives me insane.
Yeah, but going back to the featured carousel placement, I honestly think that's where teams tend to see the most success.
And interestingly enough, for you guys who are doing the hackathon, if you win the hackathon, you'll get placement there.
Right. And, you know, like, think about it.
You open the Dapp store and like 50 percent of the screen itself is just that main carousel placement.
And teams that have launched in the carousel have seen like thousands of users in the first couple of days.
In some cases, tens of thousands of users within a few weeks.
Obviously, like that really depends on the app and what's hot in the ecosystem at the time.
Like I think at one point, like when meme coins were real hot, like we had like some meme coin apps and those were getting a lot of that downloads we had
some we had some like social fire apps that were getting a lot of downloads as
well but that's generally the kind of traction we've seen now when it comes to
posts that we amplify there's a certain style that we that tends to perform the
best like for example I probably should have wrote it on this slide, but if you
can hear me think about this, right? So the example looks like something like, hey, we're live on the
Solana dApp store for all Seeker users. You know, download the Radiance dApp today and get XYZ.
Like curious about the Radiance dApp, learn more below. And below that, like turn it into kind of
like a short thread explaining what your
product actually does and what users can expect, right? That first tweet is generally the one that
gets the most amplification and engagement if you set up like a social campaign around it. So
you want to hook people right away. And like our users like want to know what the app they're
downloading is. So like, if you think about it from like a user perspective, if I see, you know,
download the Mike Solistio app today,
my first thought is, okay, but what am I actually downloading? If the thread below explains
the product clearly, users immediately understand the value and are much more likely to try
it. And another big thing, again, I'm going to keep hammering using X consistently. I
can't tell you how many times someone reaches out to me asking if a project is still active.
And the first thing they mention is that the project's X account has not posted in a month
or two.
But behind the scenes, I know those guys, I know that team is working super hard on their
product.
It's just not being able to let the the community know that the, you know,
these, these, these updates and these things are happening. So yeah,
use X to talk about your product, share updates and show what you've been
building. I would say it doesn't have to be overly polished,
but in a lot of ways, like it's almost like you're building in public. Right.
And it really just shows the ecosystem that your team is actively working and
overall continuing to ship.
Yeah, and that's kind of like the gist of everything I wanted to cover today.
I mean, hopefully I gave you guys like a better understanding of how to reach like the Solana mobile audience overall and position your app for success inside the ecosystem.
position your app for success inside the ecosystem.
You know, like, I think we're all super excited to see what everyone builds in the ecosystem
and the hackathon itself.
There's a lot of creativity in this community.
And every time we run something like this, we end up seeing some really cool ideas come
out of it.
You know, we're like super infant in where we're at in the Solana mobile timeline.
We have just over 600 apps, but in a mature world, we have thousands of dApps in the dApp store.
We have multiple billion-dollar companies that have come out of the Solana mobile ecosystem.
I would say the window of opportunity and the door is wide open, any of the hackathon teams, any teams right now
that are like looking and curious to build for Solana Mobile. I mean, that opportunity is wide
open. So I'm like, I can't wait. I'm judging the hackathon. I judged the last one. I'm even more
excited to judge this one. Good luck. Good luck overall with your submissions. Really looking
forward to seeing what you guys will ship.
And hopefully we'll be seeing a lot of your apps in the Solana App Store pretty soon.
Oh, yeah, one more thing I want to add.
So, yeah, here's my contact, right?
So, like, if you want to ping me on Telegram, if you want to reach out to me on Twitter or Solana Mobile Twitter,
you guys probably already know.
But yeah, if you have any questions,
if you guys want me to look at some stuff,
I can't really give a lot of feedback if you're submitting to the hackathon.
But if you want to chat through ideas
or just like if I generally think like this will have PMF
with our audience and stuff like that,
like feel free to ping me on Telegram or just reach out to me on Twitter. I'm going through my Discord sound settings and I'm just deafening
every single thing I'm seeing.
Yeah.
I have a question. How is Seeker
Claw performing?
It's actually performing really well.
You know,
kind of surprisingly enough, it's from like a
team we know
and I think like, obviously like
the narrative right now is
Claudebot buying an
Apple Mac Mini to
run Claudebot.
We're pretty aware
of all of that's going on.
It's doing pretty well. I haven't
used it myself.
I still need to
jump in and explore it.
The response so far from people
has been pretty solid.
Cool.
Are you thinking of making like a CloudBot app?
Well, yeah.
So we're kind of building something that's mainly
going to be like a cache app.
The cache app.
Yeah, the cache app for the seeker phone.
There seems to be a need for peer-to-peer transfers,
easy-to-use peer-to-peer transfers,
something that could integrate some sort of reputation system.
So we're working on that.
But we don't want to sell ourselves short
because a part of our application also
has the seeker claw capability.
We use agents to allow users to deploy any type of trading
strategy, DCA, or even execute simple transfers
or sales claims, things like that.
Hell yeah, man.
Super excited to see it.
I have a question with that.
So for something like that,
how do we not sell ourselves short on all the other features
but still drive the main narrative, if that makes sense?
Yeah, I think it's all going to come down to the pitch, man. Yeah mean it's all going to come down to the pitch
man uh yeah it's all going to come down to the pitch like i think uh you know like you guys are
working on your product and you know what you like excites you and if it excites you it's probably
going to excite everyone else so like like find the stuff that you really want to talk about and
then you know like things that are you know uh relative to the ecosystem and like what's going
on right now so like if it includes secret claw like obviously that are, you know, relative to the ecosystem and like what's going on right
now. So like if it includes Secret Claw, like obviously that's going to be something that
people, you know, like raise their eyebrows at. But yeah, I think it's going to come down to your
pitch and like how you deliver that. I think like, yeah, these guys have probably said it and you
guys had a couple, I think you had one workshop where one individual went over like the pitch
itself. So that's super important. I think, yeah, with our last hackathon like you know some of the pitches were just kind of like
like hard to like like grasp like the the overall value of like what they were delivering um so i
mean like i don't i don't mean i don't i don't say this to make you like anxious about like doing
the pitch like i think what you'll you know deliver is great but for your own you know like
if you can put your name on it
at the end of the day and say, hey,
I got across the value proposition
that I wanted to get across, then I
think we'll get the same as well.
OK, cool.
Appreciate it.
Yeah, no problem. I think the main thing to do with your pitch is to not get too feature heavy, right?
Like, I think there's, like, a good analogy to be had with, like, Apple versus Android,
right?
Like, why did Apple do so well?
Because they didn't talk about the features.
They talked about what it did for people.
Like if you take the sort of,
instead of marketing like, you know,
the storage space on the original iPod,
there were like a thousand songs in your pocket, right?
So I think metaphors and analogies
are really the best way to go with a pitch.
You want to generally be like metaphorical, right?
Like you want to figure out what those features enable and talk about that
without getting too granular about each feature, right?
Because it's very easy to go through all the features.
I remember there was an app last year that we ended up just outright rejecting
from the first pass because the pitch was like 10 minutes long and
I felt kind of bad because it was a developer who was very clearly excited about what he built but
it was like he just added everything he could think of to the app and it was unusable it was
on the UI was just like a mess it was a you know basically a big long mega menu where you could
just go through and there was like NFT minting
and meme coin minting and, and then trading. And then, you know, it had every feature and
that's just overwhelming. So I think like focusing in on what the core use is, is the
best way to go.
Yeah. Yeah. And I'm going to give like a thousand plus signs to that. That is a hundred percent.
Like, I think when you, when you try to focus on 40 different features,
you lose the attention on the main grab.
And I've seen a lot of teams,
I mean, I think a lot of teams
have to try to figure out what works, right?
But whenever they move away from their core product,
and this is just in general what I've seen in the ecosystem,
when I see teams move away from their core product and try is just in general what i've seen like in the ecosystem when i see teams like move away from like their core product and try to do like what's hot or just like try to
jump into like the the most common narrative like like they lose their their power users right their
core users and now their core users leave and now they're left with like people that are just chasing
like the the next shiny thing but um yeah yeah yeah just focus on focus on the core stuff
hey guys
nice to see everyone
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So, guys, just from my side.
Yeah, go.
Okay.
So, I'm a little bit late.
Sorry, guys.
I was running in meetings.
But I think that I've been listening to what people say,
and 100% they're spot on.
I mean, take what they say, honestly, with, like, a lot of conviction.
These are geniuses in the space. they are going to elevate your pitch decks they're going to give you the advice that you need
um not just for you know a hackathon but for life when you're running pitch decks when you're
trying to present to people or in web 2 web 3 these are all valid for both sides.
I think something that a lot of people do,
and I don't know if you guys have touched on this, where people mislead or forget to put in,
one is we want you around in the next six months.
So very, very important with every pitch deck
is even if you're community focused, okay,
nonprofit community focused, it needs to be sustainable.
You need to focus on how you're going to create a sustainable solution, sustainable product,
a sustainable business.
So don't overlook a financial model of some sort and doesn't have
to be in depth in in depth i'm not talking about like fancy words where all your corporate bros
come in and like oh i'll use a tcf and pe multiples and all these things we're not talking
about that just like at what point are we going to break even so we can build cool things
and then we can support the communities or at what point are we going to you know how are we
going to break even what are we going to do and what we need to reach to get to that point and
show it to people that you've thought through that not this is just a cool idea but this is
sustainable like this is going to be around next year because no one wants to invest time,
effort and grants into something that's going to vanish in two, three months.
And it could be the best idea in the world, but it might not make commercial sense.
And this goes back in now tying to what Kimo was just saying. And Diablo was just mentioning,
And Diablo was just mentioning, you know, your core product focus and your features.
Now, with your core features and your core products and all of that, your unique selling point needs to make sense.
But you need to try and bridge in your pitch deck and the way that you perceive it to a judge or to an investor or anyone else, you need to bridge your commerciality
with your technicality. Don't focus too much on technicality where you have this is how we bought
and this is really fancy and these are big words and we're going to use this technology in this
stack and this is all the different cool features. But you lose the point of the simplicity of how
people actually use it and what the real value is. So really pay attention to focusing into,
you know, this is what we do good. We do these simple things really good. And this is what these
really good simple things do to make us sustainable and make us money. So really focus into those
mechanisms in your pitch deck and how best you can portray it as simplicity and as simple as possible
to judges and that's what's going to set you apart because what i saw from the last hackathon
90% of the people will tell you this is my product this is cool this is what it does
and it looks superb but does the financial model doesn't it make sense? And have you overcomplicated it?
Is where a lot of people fall short.
And that's just my two cents coming from a more, you know,
trying to bridge from product into technical, into commercial.
And that's what I'm trying to get at.
So if anyone doesn't already understand what I'm trying to say, let me know. But really, really important to try and bridge
your technical commercial with sustainable.
If you can get that right,
I promise you, you're 90% ahead of the rest.
Yeah, I also think that it's kind of important to understand
that there are a lot of ways to make money on chain, right? And I think that it's kind of important to understand that there are a lot of ways to make money on
chain, right? And I think that most people, when they're doing their financial models or whatever,
a lot of it assumes like one of two things. One is like, you know, adding in rent, seeking
transaction fees, right? Like, what are you doing? Is it microtransactions? Is it just a form of
payment? Is it a subscription model, right? Like a lot of people think in sort of the ways that uh payments have been for forever um and i think
that there's actually a lot of those are not as compelling um i think i think like you know if
you're struggling with this step just step back and consider like what is possible with solana
so like radiance how is Radiance sustainable?
Well, really we have two things, right? We have our validator, and our validator covers our base operations,
and we acquire stake from ecosystem entities by providing services for them, and providing public goods for the ecosystem.
So we go out, and this is what Devour does, he goes out and he goes and tries to acquire stake for us. And then we provide not a for-profit business per se, but that is kind of like the
very baseline for our operations. Now, the problem with that is that it's very, you know, it's very
dependent on sole price. So like right now, that doesn't necessarily cover our full operations,
right? Because Solana has taken a huge dip.
So then we also do things like this hackathon and host this hackathon and create content for that hackathon so that we can get paid in USDC.
So, like, I think if you are struggling and you're defaulting to, like, okay, we're going to do this and then we're going to eventually launch a token,
I will say that launching a token is most often one of the least
sustainable things that you can do for a business. And then very often it can, you
know, kill your business. It might be okay for raising money, but it doesn't
make you money, right? And I think that's one of the most important things to
consider, that it is one of the hardest ways to make money. So think about what
Solana enables, think about like new primitives, like X402 and
microtransactions. And like, are you serving agents? Are you able to charge transactions to
agents? Are you able to charge imperceptible transaction fees? You know, like a really good
example of this is like the Sol Incinerator, right? So the Sol Incinerator burned NFTs and
meme coins and all this stuff. And they charge the tiniest, tiniest, like one or two Lamport transaction fee, which is like 0.0001 Sol, right?
But because so many people are burning so many things, that makes them a decent amount of money.
It's not like they're, you know, going away with millions of dollars, but they have enough to cover their devs and cover their updates and be sustainable. And I think that's the most important thing, is to think about your app
with respect to the existing ecosystem that it's built on, with respect to things like validator
operations, which is very hard to get into. But if you have, for example, a lot of user funds,
for example, a lot of user funds, and those user funds are able to be held in an LST,
then you are able to effectively stake that and reap the rewards from that staking.
A lot of DeFi protocols do something like this.
They'll have their own LST, and then when you deposit native Solana,
that might be swapped to an LST or st you know, staked to their validator.
Because if it's not staked, it's not earning rewards. And those rewards are actually very
useful. So I would say if you are worried about your financial projections, consider all the
different options that are already enabled and already possible. And I guess if you were to do
a quick, you know, list of that, it's like microtransactions, like tiny, tiny microtransactions, not like an Epic Games store microtransaction,
$5. Consider that, consider validator operations, consider LSTs, consider all this stuff.
You know, you don't have to have a bulletproof plan, but it would be useful if, you know,
on your pitch it said, you know know this is what we're going to
explore for sustainability you know like a validator operation is not viable unless you
have unless you have like a you know critical mass of people willing to stake to you um you know i
think that's the most important thing right like you you dig into you don't have to have this up
stuff ready but right like the plan of you know Radiance, like if we were building an app and we didn't have what we have already and we didn't have the validator, what would we do?
We would say, okay, here's our app, here's our plan to acquire stake and why the app helps with that.
Here's our plan to increase our social presence so that we can get staking.
Why is Helios the largest validator on the chain,
or close to the largest validator on the chain?
Well, because Mert has a crazy big Twitter account
and huge Twitter presence,
and because Helios provides a lot of tools.
So, you know, getting eyeballs,
that directly translates to stake,
especially if you do it well.
So don't let this all overwhelm you.
You don't have to have this already by your submission.
In fact, none of this this already by your submission.
In fact, none of this is possible by your submission
and that's cool, but I do think it's important to consider
like all of the things that you might use in the future
and how you might acquire those revenue streams.
Correct.
And just following on Kymo,
use what you have available and the information.
Now this is a little cheat code.
And Diablo is probably going to shout at me later in DMs.
But use what they give you against them.
Okay?
You're in a hackathon.
You've got judges.
You know that the judges are preliminary Solana Mobile.
Use the information that they've provided and pumped you
as their own marketing tools for
your benefits. 150k users at your fingertips. Make projections off those. Use the information
that they've given you so that they can actually see you've listened, you've taken in, you have
literally manipulated it to suit your use case and make assumptions of that create a sustainability
page pop it in one slide that's it like hemo says put in your future your ideas say this this this
is this this is what we're going to target based off what they've given you as well 150k users i
just need one percent of this this is how i want to do it. Like, don't overcomplicate, keep it simple,
but just show that you've thought it through. No one wants to invest or score or anything
else on something that they don't believe is going to be around here. So prove to them
that you can be around here and it's not unachievable.
Yeah, honestly, bangers all around. Loved hearing everything.
I was clapping off mute.
Do we have any questions? Does anybody want to present anything?
Now is a good time to get feedback. We still have 15 minutes or so before we wrap up the
actual stream portion of this. So if you want want live feedback from Akshay that would be great
great operating only opportunity to do so unless he decides to crash the BC and
all that stuff so if you want to present you're welcome to but if you don't
that's okay too let us know we're here and we're vibing.
And if nobody has questions, I'll take you through the flow of the current hackathon website
and the final, you know, meaningful things that you can use there.
Just before you jump on that, CryptoShock, have you presented?
You can come from mute,
CryptoShock.
I know you've been sliding
into my DMs for the last two weeks.
I think this is an incredible opportunity
for you to present and ask your questions
that you've asked me to literally
the OGs.
So take this moment,
if you please.
But this is going to be the best feedback that you can possibly have before your submission.
Talk to me CryptoShark.
So no judgment, this is just upliftment, balding, and fair commentary to make your best possible
product.
Yeah, yeah, by all means. commentary to make your best possible product.
Yeah, yeah, by all means.
I mean, don't feel like nervous to show us your product.
Oh, what's up?
What's up, man?
I can hear you.
Oh, he's here.
Yeah, buddy.
Okay, so are you going to see the presentation?
Yeah, let's go, buddy.
Show us.
Let's go for gold.
Show everyone. Hi, it's my first time. I'm a little bit confused. presentation yeah let's go buddy show us let's go for gold show everyone so if you look at the bottom left are you on discord right now i'm on this card i'm in desktop
okay yeah that's fine if you look at the left, you'll see like a little camera icon.
You'll see a little, like, right in the middle
there should be a button, and if you hover over
it with your mouse, you'll see share
your screen.
And then you can pick the screen that you want to share.
Okay.
Yeah, just
don't be sharing anything we don't want to see, you know.
Yeah, keep it PG.
Yeah, if you do that
yeah limbo also gets excited
no worries yeah and you might need if you're on like a mac i had to uh change my system preferences
so oh sorry i didn't understand uh actually i I'm just like my native is not English, so I don't actually understand all the words you say. Please never mind that.
Can you see my screen?
Yeah, it says you're live.
Yeah, we can see it.
Hold on, it's loading for me, actually.
Give me a sec.
Yeah, we can see it.
Yeah, there we go, bro.
Let's go, CryptoShark.
Come, buddy.
Show us all.
We've been working on this for a while, guys.
So I'm excited to see it. There's a DiscordX right there, dude.
Love it.
So everyone is watching the project, right?
Yep.
It floated perfectly.
I'm sorry, I'm a little bit nervous.
Don't be nervous.
Yeah, we're all friends here.
This is a great time to, yeah.
No reason to be nervous.
Yeah.
Okay, so I was publishing in DevStore since November last year. I found the hackathon and
let's do something for the hackathon. It's the first time in my life participating in a hackathon.
and participating in a hackathon so mostly i publish games mini games app store i have some
popular games on store so my project is based on games basically so mostly i publish single games
like one app one game one mini games so then i thought let's put into in one app, one game, one mini games. So then I thought, let's put into one app
and make it a game hub,
like I can station, something like that.
So then I made this, and then this game terminal.
Here you will get all the games we are making.
I guess you can see, this is the dashboard screen here you can see your recently
played games featured one the game list you will see the game of the game listed here
uh so let's go to this screen uh it's a rack like i make a leaderboard uh based on the firebase database
like if the game progress will be saved and a leaderboard will be so they're like which game
which player made how much levels how much stores this stuff is showing here in the leaderboard screen and for the monetization here I have added
two way to monetize two way to sub subscribe in the app like with Scare and the soul so your
users can like subscribe uh to remove advertisement like I'm like I'm working for something and
advertisement like I'm like I'm working for something and obviously I have to
monitor it so I've added the ad move advertisement then I have also added
option to remove them using the scare and so as you can see there in this
screenshot yeah that's it basically that's it that's the simple thing i built here and my plan is to
make it like will be i will i'll add more feature in future like more games will be added
and a lot of other features would be added like on chain uh on-chain leaderboard currently it's
firebase leaderboard uh i'll do like on-chain leaderboard later uh that's a lot
of work to do so i made it like simpler as much as i can within this short period of time like
within two or three weeks uh this is all i make as you guys
um are you the Astro Shooter guy?
Crypto Shark, can you hear me?
I can hear you.
I can hear you.
Okay, I was moving into the voice right there.
No, I was asking if you were the dev behind Astro Shooter.
I see it on here.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's the Astro Shooter from the
second in gaming category.
Yeah.
Yeah, dude. I don't know why you're nervous
at all to be showing this stuff. This is
awesome. We love Astro Shooter. It's actually
like one of the most downloaded apps
on our Dapp store.
That's why we moved it to the second position in games.
You're like, yeah, this is awesome.
I'm finally meeting the guy behind all of these games.
And I think it's a great idea to consolidate them under one app.
There's a lot of other games, as you can see,
the Liquid Connect, and all these basic basic games we play casually play with basic
games and this of the uh like we'll be layered also i'm nervous because like it's the first time
i'm talking some guy like this guy oh man nothing nothing to be nervous about. I think this is awesome. Yeah. Like, I know that you have the, like, if you purchase the NFT, I think, in SKR, you can go ad-free.
And I did that on MySeeker.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Those games are based on, like, NFT.
Now, this time I came out with, like, direct SKR payment.
Like, this time, no NFT is mint direct escape payment like this time no nfc
minting you are paying to the admin wallet then i am validating the transaction with
the alias pc uh this time no nfc just very conversation i'll get in that transaction
yeah yeah i mean not a not a huge fan of that SKR connected wallet name,
but other than that, yeah, this is awesome.
Then the other thing is, I think a really good example of what we're looking for overall.
I'm also handling the builder grants and stuff,
but what you're doing with SKR and using it to make the experience on
your app better is the type of stuff that we're
looking for, right? Like, I think there's like this general idea or a lot of like the grants and a lot
of the teams that we've seen just like reach out to us. It's, you know, it's like, hey, like, we
would love to get a grant of SKR, but then we're going to use that SKR to use it as like another airdrop distribution funnel
and then spread that SKR to our users, right? And that's like not something like we're super
interested in or that's not something that moves the needle for me. Like when I'm looking at like
people who are like building apps and stuff, teams that come up with like unique use cases for SKR,
like you, for example, it's like if you purchase the credits or whatever, you can go ad
free and that makes the experience on your app like overall much better. It's stuff like that
that like really excites me in terms of just like how we can position SKR and use SKR like within
the ecosystem. So yeah, kudos to you for getting that going. I think as you continue to build this
out and as you continue to build on all of these games and stuff like um and for honestly any team that's listening
it's like think of like intricate intricate ways to use um and to to use skr overall
um and not just as like a reward funnel
and um just from my side uh cryptoshark obviously we've been chatting and like already like your
work and what you've done the only bit of advice that i can give you and uh this might be as
controversial as chemo's post about communism um is based is basically there are previous winners who have done very similar concepts without the use of SKR
payment gating which I love um I think the the dynamic use of SKR as a way of burning using and
creating value out of that is brilliant so it sets you apart but with all of your um
Percy's spelling mistake Solan mobile put an A at the top there,
Solana, because that's going to hurt you big time
when Akshay looks at it and goes,
so you spot our name wrong.
Secondly, put in something that differentiates you
from what's already there.
So focus on a competitor analysis.
Scroll.ly won last year, and they've got an array of games
that you can just play mindlessly, super fun, great games,
and really, really successful.
A huge amount of players and hours record on that.
So what sets you apart from, let's say, a scrolly?
Put in, emphasize what makes you different, what makes you apart from like, let's say a scrolly, put in, emphasize what makes you different,
what makes you better.
And honestly, I think that if you can nail that,
it will set you up really, really, really well
for this hackathon.
I think your presentation is good.
Your demo is good.
Your content is good. Your content is phenomenal.
So yeah, once over, go through your text, your spelling.
Salon Mobile is not going to cut it.
So just nitpick.
I've edited like this before sharing the screen.
No, no, it's fine.
That's why you're nervous, huh?
You knew that.
Yeah, mm.
You don't want us to catch that, but, you know, nothing gets past Marie, man. I just noticed it right now.
I noticed it right now.
Hold on.
Listen, but that's what we hear.
CryptoShark, that's what we're here.
We're here to help you so that you don't make these mistakes when you submit.
So like I said, I think you will stand a really, really good chance in this hackathon.
But focus, put in something that sets you apart from the rest of the games,
the rest of the library of games that other people have built and submitted throughout the last year.
Put it down, what makes your, and I think everyone probably mentioned Kimo and Akshay mentioned your USP unique selling point.
What is unique about your game other than creating a game that's really super successful?
Tell us what differentiates your game library from like a scrolly.
And if you can portray that nail that my friend you're going
to the moon so that's just my only bit of constructive criticism spelling check make
sure names are correct especially when they count like the actual host's name and sponsor's name and
judge's name like solana get that down and make yourself known what set you apart from what's already there
and you're a4 way my friend okay so basically as much as i remember like slowly have few games
like uh those games uh like not every game like similar with me uh like i'm working with
uh schedule games like people are enjoying for like 10 or 15 minutes
like quickly uh like relaxing their mind and how do i say like it's for fun like yeah people having
fun and i can show you like a lot of people needed nfp and i have a big deal of affairs that I can see in my analytics
people loving my game yeah also you can see the ratings in the dev store
maintaining a good rating and people loving playing
no 100 but like I've used I've played with your game i've also you know played with scrolly
scrolly's got for example a category called casual so it's for that five ten minutes just
waste of time just play because you you don't want to do something relaxing and you don't really want
to think too hard so they've even got a category for what you're saying so what i'm saying is do
some research in your competitors out there
and really pump what makes you different.
And these are things that are going to set you apart
from the rest.
At the end of the day,
like you've got credibility to your name.
So pump that you've already got a successful app on there.
The team behind it has already created something that works.
What sets you apart? What makes you different
from these, this, this, this, this?
Not just we've done a
successful game, but
our games are completely different.
Our games revolve around, let's say,
community building or social aspects or
competitive nature, which yours isn't as casual.
So just
try portray that more to the judges
of what you are um building that is different from what's already out there that's what i'm saying
okay so you're saying to add this detail in the presentation right what makes 19 different correct
what makes your games different
and I'm just like I said
I'm just using an example because scrolly won
and I wouldn't be telling you this
if I didn't think you could be a contender
to be in the top 20
what makes you different from the other
top 20 games out there
or top 20 people who have created
games or game libraries multiple games think about it go and research go play the other people's games
and then put it in your pitch deck what actually differentiates what makes you unique and put it
in bold smash it out in everyone's faces because that is your key selling point for your pitch deck and your product,
is what makes you different.
Because a game is not something new.
There are millions of games.
But what makes your game library different?
Why should I go to yours rather than Squirly's?
You know that?
You've nailed the hackathon.
The rest of your work is perfect. You can that, you've nailed the hackathon. The rest of your work is perfect.
You can prove that you can do the tech.
You can prove you can launch a game.
You can prove you can create a sustainable game.
You've done it.
But what makes yours different from the rest?
And why should I choose you?
Research on it, and I would like to do something.
Perfect. Thank you. Thank you.
It's very quiet there.
Sorry, quickly.
Let's move on.
Derica, would you like to present real quick?
I think Akshay is going to have to leave fairly soon, if not now.
So if you want that, then...
Let me see the good old google cal
um okay yeah i can stick around for a couple more okay cool um derko you shouldn't be mic
denied anymore you'll just have to unmute on uh the yeah you're not server blocked. I just checked on my side as well. Yeah.
Bottom left, bottom left.
Stream's working well.
Bottom...
That's weird.
Oh, weird.
Alright, let me give you the comments real quick.
Jericho, go to the left, go to the left.
Far left, far left.
Far left, more, more.
Far left, yeah, down, down, take, like that.
What?
Alright, one sec, I'll fix that.
I don't know what that's all about.
Incredible.
One sec.
Incredible tap.
One sec, I gotta pause my stream on stream so I don't leave my admin.
Derek, don't worry, buddy, it's not you.
It's me.
Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna give you mod terms.
I'm gonna set this up on screen so I can't see my password.
Hold on.
He has rolls, he's player updates, he has everything.
Let me just give you...
I'll give you...
Moderator should allow you to.
Try now, see if you can unmute.
What the hell... Alright, hold on, we're going to if you can unmute. What the helly?
Alright, hold on.
We're going to make you a founder.
Oh, dude.
Welcome.
One up on me.
I'll just give you all the rules.
Team, founder, core contributor.
How about now?
Can you unmute?
Can you do me a favor, Derrico?
Can you ban chemo?
Wait, hold on. Go back to that dialogue when you try to unmute real quick.
Oh, you know what it is? It's a permissions issue with macOS. It's not the server itself. I think if you haven't used your microphone before,
you'll have to go into your accessibility options.
And then close the app and then reconnect.
So you have to allow on in your, sorry, in your, yeah, your accessibility options if you're on Mac
or your, whatever, you'll have to allow permissions to the app. I can show you how to do that real quick.
Yeah, it's in system preferences. It should open up a prompt to open that up, but I guess it's not.
It probably did prior and you probably denied it.
Yeah, that's literally what I had to do just before I jumped on the call.
Yeah.
Should be good.
I think closing out the Discord is probably going to help, too.
Yeah, here.
I'll show you, Durko, if you look at my stream, I'll show you real quick how to do that.
Oh, we got El Chuo in the chat you all okay so you see my screen yeah but we've lost we've lost Derrick. He's restarting so it doesn't help us.
I think he's back now. Yeah, there he is! Derica is with us! Let's fucking go!
Can you unmute? Yes, you can.
Yes, I'm muted.
Now the question is if he's got his audio inputs.
Baby steps, buddy. Baby steps.
Well, actually it's weird because when he first joined, I heard his microphone and then I
server muted him.
So that's really strange.
I heard you.
Let me get it.
Wait, let me get it.
This has been really fun. Let me get this. This has been really fun.
Let me get this presentation up.
I had to change to my MacBook here.
Okay. you guys see this um
yeah three out of four um donors i'm building a company called Glimpse. It's an on-chain giving platform.
Three out of four donors never give again. It's not because they stopped caring. It's because
no one showed them what happened with their donation.
The nonprofit and charity industry is $600 billion, $2 billion in cryptocurrency. That has grown significantly
since 2020. In 2020, there was only 14% of Forbes top 500 charities that accepted crypto.
And in 2024, there's now 70%. There was 70% of top 500 crypto acceptors. Now, the thing is with those companies is they took
cryptocurrencies money, but they didn't take the ideals, the values, or adopt any of the
technology. The industry has been completely the same for the last 60 years. So all Glimpse does
is it allows you to see exactly what your money did.
Zero fees, 100% on-chain, direct connection between donor and recipient.
It's three steps.
You connect your wallet, you select a campaign, you give USDC, and it instantly populates a message template between donor and moderator of a conversation
between a recipient that shows, you know, photos,
receipts, and anything else, you know, thank you messages that are from the recipient.
So my demo is up on my X. I wasn't able to condense it to that 20 second yet. So I'm still
working on it. But what we're doing is building the trust layer for giving. So this is an audacious task.
And essentially what it comes down to is
you can't have a single donation that is misappropriated
and you can't use any money in a incorrect way.
100% of all donations have to flow from donor to recipient
and it all has to be viewable on the blockchain.
This is not a white paper. I've already submitted my app to the Solana Dapp store.
It's live. I've been testing on USDC and it's working. Although I will say just last night,
Helios released an MCP server that has kind of made this project uh a lot a lot easier um and honestly it was
exactly what i needed so gonna gonna be shipping some some more updates soon hopefully we'll be
able to get them in before the hackathon ends um so this is where it's going like i said the
the trust gap is important and so starting out there's essentially no overhead i will oversee
the end-to-end of every single donation to nonprofit or church or a single
individual recipient or city program.
And then after that, targeting Q3, we will shift to onboarding our first partners.
These partners, this is specifically powered by Seeker because these partners do everything through
their Seeker. Essentially, anyone now can become a nonprofit with just $500. And what Glimpse is
doing is we're going to be creating a platform that allows anyone to verifiably give any sort
of donation to someone on the blockchain. Obviously, there will be vetting and structures in place but
that's the vision i've been trying to enact this for four years it started out as an nft project
i looked for funding i tried to join some hackathons but i am non-technical um and
i have just had this dream to pursue this and build this for a long time
because when i first entered crypto it seemed like like the most natural response is that that's what the blockchain does is it allows for good
people to do good things.
Obviously, that's not been the history of it, but the potential is there.
And obviously Solana is the only place to be building it on.
Wonderful.
I also feel the same. Oh, yeah.
Yeah, that's great.
I love the way the hashtag looked.
Very good.
I would say make sure you convert it from HTML to Google Slides or something when you upload it.
Just because the judges and reviewers are not going to want to download
an HTML file. You can host it somewhere if you want but again, no downloading HTML files. But
besides that, wonderful pitch and I don't actually have all that much feedback. That was good and
concise. I've got just a few from my side.
Sorry, everyone hates this when I start giving the feedback.
They're like, why don't you shut the fuck up?
Anyway.
Need all of it.
Dude, my headset's tweaking out.
Firstly, really great pitch deck.
And I hope that everyone here can see and look at what we would say like the perfect structure of a pitch deck.
Start with a hook, explain your problem, explain your solution,
explain how you're going to fix that, how it's going to sustain itself,
what makes it unique.
Like, for example, it's the first ever NPO on this,
and we're going to do this and that.
And we are going to be able to
you know give um to donors and full traceability you explain it clearly you explain short to the
point and you end with a nice catch line which i forgot what it was but it was incredible when i
was reading it it was like three lines doom doom doom doom that, try it. It's really, really well structured.
The only bit of advice I can give you is you made a mention, I think on Sly like 4,
we have revenue model is not of X, Y, and Z, it's of partnerships.
Put in who your targeted partnerships are.
So who are you actually going to target?
Show some thoughts into it.
Don't just say we're not going to make money out of sales or taking off um you know pay gates or anything else
subscription we're doing it through business partnerships who put in something like these
are targeted partnerships right or we've reached out to these people um just so once again you can
show that there's some thought behind it.
It's not just pissing in the dark.
And these are small things that will set you apart from the rest of the people.
Because at the end of the day, talk is cheap.
Anyone can talk.
Show that you put in the groundwork.
And that is what's going to separate, like we explained in CryptoShock,
from good to unbelievable. derico dude really really good
presentation um yeah i'm proud of you i think that both you and crypto shark from what i've seen
obviously came in a little late apologies really really good all around yeah excited excited for
you guys and uh really really good work yeah yeah i gotta i gotta second that i think uh i echo like chemo and maru's uh comments derrick i
i think we met um at mountaindale you told me i think you were the one who told me you were going
to uh like costa rica to surf yeah bro yeah i didn't have great wi-fi there so it kind of set
me back a little bit i had to pull
a few all-nighters i feel you man i mean that's like dude that's crazy like i think you came into
the room with this idea and we chatted about it and now you have like a full-on pitch deck and
you've launched the dab store like that is freaking awesome to see um you know so congrats
hope you had a good time surfing um you know shout out to my memory right there. Shout out to all men.
That's impressive. Yeah, no, I appreciate it. Yeah. Yeah.
Dude, come on, bro. I have, I have human interactions with people. Um,
real conversations, right? Yeah. Yeah. Dude, contrary to popular belief,
I'm all right. Um, but I think like something that would probably help,
uh, with your pitch, uh, I think the pitch deck and everything,
like everyone said, it's fucking awesome.
And you got like the point across very clearly. And in a short amount of time,
like I didn't, I didn't get like, honestly, like speaking and transparently speaking, I didn't get
bored at any part of that. Also, like, I really liked the idea of charity overall. I think you
and you and me spoke in Mountain Dow, you know, like I've my family's also been into like the
charitable donations and stuff like i
grew up like doing stuff with the charity so i really like the idea um i think what would probably
help this pitch is like it's awesome that you're on the dap store but like i think like talking
about how you can activate seekers more is going to be super helpful because like one big part
of like the judging is like PMF, right?
So like, like, there's, there's obviously like, like some PMF with like, like, like just
charities on chain.
So you know, like where the money's going and you can, it's like verifiable proof and
like, obviously, like we can trust you.
But I think like, you know, kind of curating maybe like a slide or two about how
you plan to activate seekers. Because when you look at seekers, like we have, there's a site
called seekertracker.com. It's not made by us, but it's made by someone within the community that
like tracks like where activity from seekers are coming from around the world. I think we have like 23,000 seekers
in somewhere around there,
some 20K in the US,
like a good chunk in Asia.
So I think like finding a way
to target those users
and have them be interested
in your product
and how to like activate them overall is going to be super
helpful because that will give me a sign and honestly give like the judges a sign that there
is PMF for this. So it's like, hey, like there's like 25,000, you know, seekers in the US. Like
we're, you know, we're, we plan to partner with this, this charity and like hopefully activate
X amount of seekers, just anything like that. And like,
maybe even like even figure out like an international angle, I think that might be a
little tough. But like, if someone's gonna do it, clearly it's you, right? So like, like, I think,
like, yeah, find a way to to where it's like, okay, like, hey, this is this on chain problem
is even more solved with like seekers, because we have like an active user base around the world like this because like right now I guess like I'm thinking like why like why would
someone in like Asia want to like donate to a charity maybe in like you know Colorado or
something like that but like I think like if you can you know if you can answer that question or
like at least answer the question for like the the seeker users in the us um and find something maybe you know in other parts of the world uh where where you can be
active um that's going to really like like put this pitch over the top yeah no that's that's
super great feedback and actually your feedback last time helped me get to this point so it's
only fitting um that you give me that because i mean mean, at the end of the day, the goal of Glimpse is to become like a, almost like a marketplace where someone in Asia, someone in Nigeria, I already talked to someone definitely, I just had that idea kind of like yesterday and today,
so I hadn't put it in the pitch yet, but that's a super important part.
Thanks for highlighting that.
No, of course, man. Of course. Looking forward to seeing it.
Awesome. Appreciate you guys.
Of course, dude.
Wonderful.
Maybe we can wrap it up there.
Before we go, though, I'm going to do a quick tour
of the website features that should help everybody else
with your pitch reviews.
So, let me just do that real quick.
Like that.
Can I add something? Hello? Yeah sure. Yeah I did.
Like Diablo said about Seeker Tracker. Yeah this one right?
Let me see.
Yeah, this is the secret trigger.
Yeah, I built the Android version of it, and it's made by Metasol.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So you made an Android version?
Dude, do you ever sleep?
Yeah.
I made the Android version.
It's available on the Dapp Store.
And I was going to place it.
Awesome, man. Yeah, they are on the Dapp Store and also in the LH store. Awesome, man.
Yeah, they are on the Dapp Store.
That's cool.
Yeah, I can't officially plug them because it's like a community-made thing,
but they are pretty accurate overall.
Yeah, just adding.
Yeah, it's made by Metasol.
Yeah, I think he's pretty well-known in this space, too.
Yeah, yeah. Okay, Yeah, that's it.
Cool.
All right, so this is pretty quick, nothing crazy.
Obviously, we've put out a lot of content around putting your pitch together.
There's been a bunch of workshops and all that stuff, but Twitter can be hard to navigate.
So we've got all of the workshops here on the page in the toolbox.
Just jump over to workshops. They're all here. You can jump through them.
But that's a little bit less important.
I have taken the liberty of converting a lot of the important content to a cute little banner
up the top here, which is the tap to open
me final week yumminess. So sorry in here you've got a basic demo tutorial so you've got your mirror
your phone screen with Scrappy and this will link to the Scrappy github. Record with Screen Studio
you can open and download Screen Studio. You can
also just use any other screen recording software if you need to. It's not a big deal what you use.
I just prefer Screen Studio. Right here it's, you know, suggested workflow. Whatever tools work for
you is fine. And then finally add a voiceover. You can do that with Screen Studio. You can do that
after the fact if you need to. But we do recommend using your real voice and, if you can, your real face. I think most importantly, don't send a 10 minute
video. Judges have a lot of videos to watch and if everybody put a 10 minute video in, we'd be
looking at like 5,000 minutes of video and that would be very bad. That's a lot of movies and
you don't need to watch movies.
Alright, another tab here, so you get your demo there, your pitch here. This walks you
through an interview workflow that I use for creating pitch decks. You can also watch the
De-Pitch Masterclass that we streamed the other day, very good stuff there. There's
also a thread on the Radiance Twitter account that you can review.
But most importantly, that masterclass has been distilled down into a basic pitch playbook, which you can copy the mark down here. From there, you do an interview with Claude. I would say first
copy the mark down here, jump over to the other tabs, whether that's rules or prizes or judges
or everything if you're feeling crazy at the very least i would
suggest getting rules and judges in there i would go to those tabs and up at the top here on every
page you have the ability to copy the page as markdown so if you go over to whatever it is
rules you copy that page as markdown you jump to Hackathon, you copy the pitch playbook as Markdown,
paste that into your Claude instance. I suggest using a clean one that is not connected to your repo,
or if you're a codex or a GPT user, use that. So paste those two Markdown files into your Claude instance,
don't connect it to your repo, and then have it interview you to develop a meaningful pitch.
It'll ask you all sorts of questions, and it'll ask you all the necessary questions,
and then from there you'll have an output of a pretty good pitch text.
You don't need it to make the full deck, all you need it to do is make the text.
Once you've made the text and you've reviewed it and
maybe shortened it, it tends to make it a little bit long so I suggest shortening it,
you can generate your deck very quickly with the front end slides clause skill. This will give you
a meaningful, you know, pretty pitch deck in HTML format. The reason to do this is that it's kind of a pain in the butt to, you know, take all your
app styling and all that stuff and try to apply it in Google Slides. Very difficult. But with this,
all you have to do is do a very simple, you know, invocation of the skill. So you do slash front end
slides. You paste the text that you generated, and then you point it towards your app's CSS or style sheet.
Then it will grab all the styles from there and apply them to the deck,
and you will have a custom-branded pitch deck with pretty good functionality.
And also, once you're done with those, you've got the submit flow here.
Danger, do not make sure that everything is shared correctly
with our hackathon email. Make sure your GitHub repo, you've invited the hackathon
email to that, and make sure your Google Drive is either public or we are invited to it. We cannot
see these things if you have not done it. And then finally there is some good Solana skills over here for your
final review. There is a lot of things from the Solana Foundation as well as
Expo and other reputable skill developers like SendAI.fun and Metaplex
and all that good stuff here. So if you want to do one final pass with an AI over
your app there's much more useful skills here, and that's all I got for you
Alright cool, I'm gonna end the stream here and
