By curamax on Skatehive
A few days ago, I started seeing Snaps and Dbuzz posts from another Hive user promoting their SocialFi project built on top of Solana. It made me curious about the kind of development happening over there at the moment. I thought that if a two-person team could build a SocialFi platform showcasing the same type of product as Hive’s SocialFi, then there must be more teams creating similar platforms, what I would call Hive competitors, or even “Hive-killers,” in this space. Sure enough, a quick Google search revealed plenty of lists of SocialFi, GameFi, and basically every kind of Web3 social media dApp imaginable. There’s clearly a boom in dApp development on Solana, Polygon, and many other protocols. It made me feel like I’d been living under a rock, realizing that my understanding of Web3 development has already fallen behind. Will this be a doom-and-gloom post? No, definitely not. Let me clarify: the intention of this post isn’t to discourage anyone here, but rather to encourage ever