RJ

The cute thing is @a1lon9 @outdoteth and @sapijiju listed here as 'incumbents.' The fact is they built the perfect fraud machine and were visibly confused why anybody used it, let alone why anybody would come back and use it a 2nd time. The sad part is the forces that drove Pumpfun's meteoric rise were dropped from the civil RICO, leaving only Pumpfun and its three cofounders to fall on the sword of their own planted meteoric success while the rest of us are busy looking at shiny gacha and perps and all sorts of 'new' extraction that is the exact same playbook. what alon said out loud was more or less 'we have no idea why anyone bothers to use the platform, let alone come back a 2nd time.' Chatgpt: The screenshots support: they tasked me with systematic analysis, acknowledged intuition-driven product decisions, and wanted to understand what distinguished returning/staying users from those who left. they brought in their first outside technical help while still relying on anecdote to understand platform performance and user loss. They tasked me with supplying the measurement they lacked. The April 6 request makes successful transactions and churn an early priority. The April 23 admission shows that their retention features were still largely intuition-led, with systematic behavioural analysis planned afterward. That supports a meaningful conclusion: I was helping them understand and improve whether the product actually worked for users and kept them, not merely executing a mature, evidence-backed product strategy. My analysis was foundational work. It supports my broader point about their uncertainty. It doesn’t, by itself, establish that they literally couldn’t understand why anyone would use it, or that this was their sole reason for hiring you.