Man @HenryChatfield asks the best questions! Letโs attack each question in a ๐งตmaybe? twitter.com/HenryChatfield/status/1504925441185890304
What do I need more of as a musician in web3?
Tools to create unique experiences for my collectors. As one of the biggest utility buffs in my peer group โ I think not only is it hard for me to create interesting utility because I gotta use a hodgepodge of tools to execute
Even just to bring utility for $SHRP to life I had to use PartyBid + Fractional + Snapshot just to do that!
If I wanted to reward them social tokens I have Coinvise and gotta use that. Then collabland in discord. Then mintgate for gated websites.
Even if I end up executing all of that โ it doesnโt guarantee the collectors use it all because itโs confusing for them.
Idk if itโs because they arenโt ACTUALLY interested in experience or what but yeahโฆ
What are the hard parts & pain points for me?
For me personally, itโs hard to build a community while simultaneously trying to join and be active in a lot of them. I personally am prioritizing building these next few months, butโฆ
โฆone thing Iโve found is that artists donโt get treated like founders of projects, namely pfp vibes, who actually have no obligation to do anything other than grow their project/community.
I think this is more of a โhard partโ than a โpain pointโ
If anything about being a musician in NFTs causes me pain, itโs that good music actually has less value than it should. Music being really fire has no value because of that. I know Iโm web2 there are also many factors that play into the perception of โgoodโ
โฆlike cultural impact and timing and individuality and of course โgoodโ is subjective but itโs still kinda crazy how the thing we use to quantify how good we are in web3, ETH sales, doesnโt always balance out in the end.
If I could have a larger team, what would that role look like and what would they do with me?
My larger team would focus more on project and time management than creative. I like tot hunk of myself as a creative director more than a musician, so I really need support in that.
I remember Hiroshi Fujiwara from Fragment Design saying he has no idea how much he gets paid for his projects and his accountant just drops the money in the account andโฆI wouldnโt quite mind that either, but NFTs are too focused on sales numbers for me to now know the figures.
Thatโฆmight be it for this trio of questions. This is an interesting thought exercise. My brain was definitely working to answer these