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by bruceb 1400 days ago
I don’t know about much about the space but my first impression is the initial pitch is confusing.

Fight NFT Fraud sounds like a service for company buying/selling NFTs, and needs to stop attacks on their system and is actually slightly vague.

Seems like people can check if a specific NFT is stolen or improperly minted?

Lead with that. CarFax for NFT (but even more important)

Is that NFT Stolen? Check now.

Then after the submission box can go into more detail.

1 comments

Thank you for the feedback!

Yes, I'm glad the core sentiment and functionality comes across.

One of the biggest issues in the space (for Tovera and FNFTF) is that the crypto ecosystem is so sleazy no one in our targeted user/customer base (slightly sophisticated users and beyond) trusts anything or anyone - and rightfully so.

In reaching out on Twitter, etc getting anyone to engage with something like FNFTF to even upload a PNG/JPG is near impossible. Install a browser extension?!?! Yeah right. Our most common response is "Nice try, scammer".

This is why we have "Show me a Random Ape" and "What have other people searched" buttons. It's practically all anyone who visits the site uses because of the issues I mentioned. So that's why we try to lead with something above the fold.

It's a chicken/egg reputational issue for us. Granted all of this is the creator and collector space - the real customer is an NFT platform, marketplace, etc that would integrate us in the backend somewhere so a user that already trusts wherever they are would inherently trust us.

Ok I got way to into this. Here are some verbiage changes: https://imgur.com/a/oXGcgcW

Now this is coming from, as I said, a person not in the space. Your users more sophisticated but still think language could be sharper.

If could already show last few NFTs searched for might be the best (yes always easy for person to suggest things they don't have to implement, ha)

Wow, thank you! Don't be surprised if you see some of these suggestions deployed in the near future.

YES - we're already building front-end support for more "wow" factor on various NFT statistics, recent searches, realtime newly minted NFTs, etc. I'm the furthest thing from a UI/UX person but I have faith in the team that we'll be able to certainly come up with something more engaging than what we have today (which isn't saying much)!

Thanks again!