Hello world! 👋🌍
We’re building Streamlify, the video streaming protocol where creators and viewers share the upside.
No ads. No engagement traps. No middlemen.
Just code, community, and ownership.
Want to see how & what we’re building ? Join Discord > https://t.co/gfnizpT03m
Drum roll 🥁
Congratulations to Colosseum Cypherpunk Portugal winners:
🥇 @Kormos_Finance
🥈 @mcpaytech
🥉 @Kana_Growth
The competition was close. Too many teams to give awards to, but support is available!
Excited to see what everyone ships next 🚀
To every founder who shipped during this hackathon season
You made an effort to push the frontier! That's what building on Solana is about. Excited to see what you ship next 🚀
Winners announced tomorrow! 👀
'You join one of these big platforms, you post your stuff & you start building your audience, but none of that belongs to you'
We couldn't agree more @hitRECordJoe!
That's why we're building @streamlifyio
PS: Your talk yesterday was our highlight! ♥️
“Being a creator online today is sort of like building your dream house on rented land.”
At #WebSummit, @hitRECordJoe highlighted how little control creators truly have over their digital identities.
Crazy intense week at the @WebSummit in #Lisbon. Great chats, great feedback and a lot of interest, potential investments and partnerships on the horizon. Really pumped! 🚀☀️
🎥 @streamlifyio
Ad-free video streaming platform powered by Livepeer and Solana
Pay-per-second model with wallet-to-wallet micropayments → creators earn directly from fans, not algorithms
No invasive tracking. No engagement manipulation. Just fair payments and viewer control
We’re excited to share our 2025 State of Crypto report.
This year’s story: the maturation of the crypto industry — with growing institutional adoption, the rise of stablecoins, better infrastructure, new consumer experiences, and long-awaited regulatory clarity.
Read the full report → https://t.co/P3gzQphOEx
Here are the biggest trends of 2025…
Platforms didn’t fail.
They succeeded at their goal: maximize ad revenue per minute of attention.
The more users scroll, the more valuable their data becomes.
It’s not broken. It’s just morally inverted. And it works for them.
Algorithms didn’t ‘empower’ creators.
They enslaved them to engagement loops, dopamine spikes, and platform control.
The attention economy isn’t broken because it fails to profit.
It’s broken because it succeeds at exploiting. 🧵
Viewers aren’t free either.
They’re fed an endless loop of outrage, FOMO, and low-effort dopamine.
The ‘Recommended for you’ feed isn’t personalization, it’s behavioural engineering.
The longer you scroll, the more someone gets paid.
I got rejected by 144 investors before raising $150M for my $200M+ rev/year startup.
After 144 rejections, I started questioning our approach.
Were we solving the right problem?
What were we doing wrong?
Why weren’t investors seeing what we were seeing?
Were we the right team to build this?
We tried everything: different pitch angles, new deck structures, and reframing the problem.
Then came the 145th meeting, where we closed our first growth round.
That yes made everything worth it. But getting there took years of mistakes and hard work.
We went through a lot of trial and error just to figure out what resonates with investors.
We tried dozens of approaches to figure out what made investors engage.
Some landed, most didn't. But each iteration taught us something about what builds conviction versus what just sounds good on paper.
And once we cracked that code, our Series C closed faster than expected.
And today, I see so many founders in the exact same position I was in 10 years ago: grinding through rejections, questioning everything, and trying to figure out what works.
So today I want to give you the resource I wish I had back then:
Something that shows you exactly how to structure these conversations and navigate the entire process
(because the fundraising cycle can be a big distraction and take a toll on you as a founder).
So I've partnered with Notion's Startups Team to create the essential fundraising resource that helps you avoid the mistakes that cost me years.
Here's what you are getting:
• The actual decks I used to raise $150M for Super[.]com (Series B, C)
• 50 real examples from funded startups like Eleven Labs and Artisan AI
• A searchable database of 10,000+ investors - angels, VCs, and accelerators you can reach out to immediately (this alone would take months to build manually)
• An AI-powered fundraising agent built into Notion with step-by-step prompts (no separate ChatGPT needed)
Want access?
• Like and share this post
• Comment "FUNDRAISE"
• Follow me so I can DM you the link
I'll send it over ASAP.
P.S.: If you are serious about fundraising (now or in the future), you should grab it right away.
We've been hard at work preparing our submission for the @Solana CypherPunk @colosseum Hackathon. After nights of late-night coding, tokenomics debates, and caffeine-powered design sprints, we've now SUBMITTED our project! What a ride!🚀
Drop some love♥️, wish us luck🍀!
This is what 'from platform to protocol' means for us:
💡From centralized to decentralized
💡From opaque algorithms to transparent logic
💡From attention extraction to attention ownership
We’re not competing with YouTube’s business model.
We’re succeeding its philosophy.
The attention economy had its run.
The ownership economy is next. 🚀