Adventure #31 - Smoothie.so

Gmgmgm, big news today.We got sponsoooooooooored 🚀🚀

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^ Can't wait to tell you more about them later on!!

Today's plan is as usual:

Use this framework to look into a business:(1) The product(2) The founding team(3) Sponsored section*(4) Funding and Hiring(5) Why the business excites me

Current events + business talk(6) Meme + NFT Market(7) Hustler's ambition

Disclaimer: the business below didn't pay me to write about them. I chose to do so. This is not financial advice either!

Today is dedicated to Smoothie.so

The product

Smoothie is one of my favourite products in web3:Extremely simple and wildly useful.

No friction whatsoever, you can even use it without connecting a wallet.

So what is it?Issa discovery platform for web3 products🚀 Founders share what they're building then Smooties users upvote.The product with the highest score is the winner.

If you think about what I'm doing with the newsletter - they're doing similar but in a different way. I go in more depth, they cover more ground.

^ Using both will for sure keep you updated on what's new in web3.

Sounds like a great premise for a partnership, right???wen 👀 👀 👀

Anyhow, here's how Smoothie looks like:

Oh wait hold up. Who are those sexy mfers at the top???Our friends at Doodhwala have made it to Smoothie page.If you like their newsletter, you should defo vote for them here

Some things I love about Smoothie:1/ Points system - gamified incentives go brrr + people can compete2/ Social profiles - you can see what people like based on their activity3/ Their bloody litepaper - pls study it and use it for your own business

^ Clean, clear, and short🔥Below is an excerpt and here you can read the full thing

➪ How can you use Smoothie?

• Launch your own web3 product

• Nominate a web3 product you like/use

• Vote for products you like + give feedback

• Find cool web3 products

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back to Smoothie

The founding team

Matt Kim: co-founder and CEO (Twitter, LinkedIn)➙ Over 2 years of exp as a strategy consultant➙ 9 months at Meta as a Vertical Strategy Lead➙ Co-founded and sold Bonfire which is/was a virtual event marketplace for remote teams. The website is now dead otherwise I'd link it

Kaiser Kim: co-founder and CTO (LinkedIn)➙ worked at Coinbase for over 3 yearsDon't know much else about the fella

Funding and Hiring

A) Funding

Smoothie completed had a $1.2m pre-seed round.

They're now raising a seed round.

Reply to this email or DM me on LinkedIn and I'd be happy to make an intro.

B) Hiring

I don't actually know. Matt and I only spoke for a brief time and don't think we spoke about that. I'll take the L. You can follow Smoothie on twitter to stay updated

Why this business excites me

It's a great product, simple to use, and in a rapidly growing market.

I'm also eager to see how Smoothie, being the underdog, takes on Product Hunt.

The Smoothie team is a lot more web3.Product Hunt isn't focused on web3 atm (i think).

^ So it seems like there's a window of opportunity for Smoothie to take market share. Will be super interesting to follow.

Rooting for Smoothie🚀

Favourite meme of the week

honestly man, idk... I feel so disconnected since losing my twitter account..Will this suffice? Pls send more memes

If not, the ETH Denver opening is for suuuuure a meme

Quick market update

1/ Coinbase's L2

2/ UniSwap mobile wallet

3/ ERC 4337, explained by Zeneca

My on-chain activity

Just the Base NFT & McLaren's on Tezos.Both free

Hustler's Ambition

A section dedicated to business frameworks/ideas/tools

Worth a watch!

And a longer read about business growth

Once again, I wanted to thank Boto.io for being our first sponsor.I'm a big fan & even wrote about them about 10 weeks ago. Love what they're doing.

Their team is great, super responsive and hanging out with their community in Discord daily.

With that being said, we are done for this week. I'll see you next Sunday👋

psIf you're a VC needing dealflow, drop me a message.If you're a founder, DM me and let's get you featured (it's free)

- Mitko