Everyone in crypto would agree we need more apps. Mostly everything is speculation and gambling, which leaves plenty of opportunity for some apps that offer some good old fashioned, wholesome fun. The problem is these users are most likely already satisfied with what they have in web2 alternatives. Crypto and web3 is often branded as an internet where users own their data - see @cdixon's book Read Write Own. Ok, but what does that mean? Do people who use the existing internet care about this?...

Shepherd is an iOS app I recently launched. It's a Bible app with a built-in LLM chat. You can ask Shepherd any question about the Bible. Shepherd will help you understand scripture and explore concepts you're exploring in your faith. With a $4.99/month subscription, you can save your chats and have unlimited messages with Shepherd.Click here to download on iOS.If you ask any Christian who uses an app to explore the Bible, they most likely will recommend you the YouVersion app. The app has th...

I study the Bible on my phone everyday. One thing I like to do is talk to an LLM as I go to help clarify things, understand more context, or just ask any dumb question I’m embarrassed to ask others. I was always jumping between the Bible app and my LLM, and my Bible study chats would get lost in other chats I have with the LLM. That’s why I built Shepherd. An iOS Bible app that has an LLM chat built into it. Grok helped me write the app in about 3 weeks, gpt-4o provided the logo and desi...

Last year @grit launched his Farcaster web client, The Rhizome, the aesthetic first Farcaster client inspired by pinterest/tumblr/arena. I was an early user, and grit reached out for some feedback. I mentioned that it'd be great to build a mobile client for it. I had some free time and offered to help start on it. Grit was down. We started working in September, and did a pretty good sprint for a few months. We were trying to build a really polished client, with a crypto wallet and frames supp...

I am still shipping fixes and features in the higher notes app.My thesis for the crypto apps I’m building is quite simple. Anyone who has spent time in crypto knows we need more users. We’ve only got 7% of the world owning crypto. That means the other 93% either hasn’t had crypto cross their radar or they have no need for crypto.So how do we put crypto on their radar or give them a need for it? I’m not quite sure. Store of value in Bitcoin hasn’t done it, world computer in Ethereum hasn’t don...