Solana Price Club

the transition from building in private to building in public is one of the hardest things a company can do. for most companies, it typically happens at IPO (or a token launch) and it is a byproduct of having the privilege to tap into public markets. most companies would actually love to preserve privacy while also tapping broader users/liquidity. for companies pre-public markets - building a consumer app publicly / sharing day to day visibly / taking and working on feedback in real time is almost always a suicide mission. it has very little upside, and a lot of downside. everyone has an opinion. everyone always thinks they know better than u what to build, when to do things, and how they should be done. if u ship one product that satisfies one group of users, theres evidently another group thats upset their feature was neglected. so why does fomo do things that are almost entirely -EV like publishing our roadmaps, telegraphing our new features, engaging in convos on the timeline, revealing what actually happens day to day behind the scenes, doing interviews on how we view our role in markets, etc? well, because we care about the user. we want them to know we hear them. while we may not always agree on the exact details like timing or priority, our north star is we build a product people find value in, find joy in using, and are excited to share with others companies much smaller than us would have decided to isolate themselves in an ivory tower and ignore all user input. this is the easy, but wrong way to build something generational imo. we’ve been meaningfully engaged and receptive to all users and all user feedback since day 1. that’ll never change. while its literally impossible to respond to every single person, we do quite literally see every single thing that mentions fomo. we will make mistakes. a lot of them. we will also build beautiful products. lots of them. most importantly, we will always be in the trenches. learning, observing, doing.