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by fragmede
436 days ago
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I built one of these for phantom and Solana. the problem is there are just too many steps involved with building the page, and then it's too slow. I wanted to replace online display ads with a JavaScript widget that would charge you 3 cents as you scroll down the page, or have the "more inside" button charge users 3 cents or whatever. Didn't get to that part, but everything was just so clunky that it only really worked as a tech demo. The problem is that crypto people already know crypto and have a wallet. It's the people that don't know crypto and are repulsed by it that you have to convince that hey, here's a valid use case for crypto (micropayments) but you have to do all this work before you can use it, and while the rails are there, it's just too immature. |
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You nailed the core problem: crypto-native users are fine jumping through hoops, but if you’re trying to use crypto to convert or prove a use case to the average user, the bar is just too high. Wallets, gas, confirmations — it feels like asking them to learn how to solder a circuit just to turn on a light.
That’s part of why I kept Fundhog super minimal: no sign-ups, no tokens, just “send crypto to a wallet” with a nice-looking page in the middle. But I totally hear you — there’s still a lot of friction under the hood.
I think the next wave of tools (especially with account abstraction and gasless UX on chains like Polygon/Base) might actually make something like your vision feasible in the near future. Would love to jam more if you ever decide to revisit the widget idea — I think it's a powerful concept.