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Chief Product Ora • @d20_labs @visitsugartown • 戦え

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@tommyngo
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9 months
For me, the most bullish announcement from @frankdegods and @delabsxyz was sunsetting the points parlor. Takes strength to recognize when a product isn't achieving desired results and a lot more courage to kill it. Bet on teams with conviction to experiment. Hi @y00tsNFT fam
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@tommyngo
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9 months
Lets drop some Sugartown alpha If you haven’t heard yet, Sugartown was created by us at Zynga, yes that Zynga. Lots of things brewing and announcements will be coming, but since the community is so active today, I’ll fill the gap for our new friends. Lets go 👇 Where’s the
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@tommyngo
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1 year
Gmgm citizens of Sugartown. You ready? LFG.
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@tommyngo
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7 months
I'm excited to welcome @acollnft to the Zynga Web3 Gaming fam as our new Product Community Manager. I've chatted with Acoll for awhile now and have so much respect for her presence and contribution to the space. The Sugartown Community just got even stronger. Welcome Acoll!!
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@tommyngo
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2 months
Web3 is a fast moving space. Metas change daily and weekly — even in bear markets and crypto winters. To keep up with the pace, every team need 3 things: 1/ Product and development expertise 2/ Native web3 acumen 3/ Ability to move fast and experiment Our team has decades of
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1 year
Sugartown. ⚡️ Set vision for the long term ⚡️ Plan for the mid term ⚡️ Execute in the short term ⚡️ Learn and adapt, always We're here to build.
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@tommyngo
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10 months
Have you been tracking Sugartown? You should. 1/ Under 3 months since doxxed as Zynga 2/ Under 2 months since Free Mint 3/ Tested 3 game events 4/ Revealed 2 weeks ago 5/ All holders get game access next week 6/ Game 2 launching after This is still only Chapter 0? We cookin'
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@tommyngo
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9 months
Sugartown's next game: All Time Heights Objectives with game #2 1/ Launch a fully 3D game 2/ Experiment chill gameplay 3/ Bring a beloved IP into web3 Staying true to our vision to build, explore, and expand web3 gaming with the Sugartown IP. Sugartown Chapter 0 continues.
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@tommyngo
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2 months
I just want to take a second and give Camol some roses for grinding day after day, going well beyond his job description, constantly challenging ideas + bringing new ones to the table, talking daily with their community members to onboard them, and helping grow Sugartown's
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@tommyngo
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3 months
I'm a sucker for the XX eyes @LT3NFT
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1 year
gmgm, only 1 out of 3 of the statements below is true 1/ eth is going to 0 2/ water is wet 3/ sugartown community is strong af
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@tommyngo
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1 year
gm what an amazing few days as we wrap up the first week after doxxing. we're excited to keep telling our story to surprise and delight the community in the weeks to come. STAY TUNED ⚡️⚡️⚡️
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@tommyngo
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9 months
It’s amazing to see all the new holders and community members in Sugartown. But — the job’s not done yet. Say it with me, Sugartown is the alpha.
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@tommyngo
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19 days
Timing is always tricky with web3, development, and big news. We are extremely excited for the update, but hit an unexpected roadblock. The community has always been patient. The community continues to be patient. We recognize, appreciate, and are grateful for the patience. Bet
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@tommyngo
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2 months
Congrats on the successful launch of $MOCA @tylerdurden88 and our friends over at Mocaverse!! Had to put the Moca mask on in support. Looks like a great fit to my Ora.
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@tommyngo
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1 year
Yo?
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@tommyngo
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8 months
Just got off a long call with the Vice President of Web3 at Zynga, Take-Two Interactive and he's excited about 2024 for @visitsugartown . Bullish.
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@tommyngo
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8 months
Sugartown's Growth engine is always improving. First Community Captains and next? PCM, our first Product Community Manager. A unique, new role on Zynga Web3 Gaming who will be the bridge between the community and game operations. Excited to announce who they are on Monday.
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@tommyngo
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1 year
SUGARTOWN ORAS mints tomorrow Can't wait to start Chapter 0, LFG
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@tommyngo
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4 months
Camol told me we need more IP touchpoints so here it is: SUGARTOWN'S NEXT CHAPTER IS COMING. 1/ New Product 2/ New Systems 3/ New Rewards 4/ New Partners 5/ Same Killer Team Thanks for joining tongo's 3 seconds ted talk.
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@tommyngo
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4 months
Mobile games’ dev cycles used to be 6 months. Today? 18+ for dev and 6+ for testing. Sugartown delivered a lot in 6 months, here’s what’s next before our 1 year: 1/ Cross community play 2/ A game that will hit PMF 3/ L2 Summer is coming, we are coming, and we don’t miss.
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@tommyngo
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3 months
Hot take: web3 gaming will take off when we move away from farming. If farming is the primary use case - the game, the product, and the fun become secondary. This creates a negative behaviour cycle and will lead the game to death when the farming ends. Web3 gaming becomes
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@tommyngo
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12 days
To the current and future Oras I know it's quiet I know there are expectations But I also know we will exceed them once we are able to reveal. We only have one chance at perception for each market deliverable and we'll get it right. So thanks again as always for sticking with
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@tommyngo
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4 months
A project's vision, products, and growth are only as good as the team. And to succeed in web3, the team needs to fully understand the space, the nuances, and most importantly the culture. Sugartown puts action above words -- our latest move? Onboarding @Web3Adam to our team.
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@tommyngo
tommy ngo
1 year
Should I start a tweet series on web2 game analytics and their relevancy to web3 products?
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5 months
Gm. I sent a corporate email reporting on the current state of the market and project. It felt a little too bullish so I signed the email at the end: NFA, Tommy It was to our exec team. AMA.
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@tommyngo
tommy ngo
3 months
Who wants a high card?
@visitsugartown
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@tommyngo
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1 year
You can't build a great architecture on a weak foundation. Creating a great, long-term product requires having the right building blocks. Today marks the first building block for @visitsugartown with our staking launch. warning, real-in game image below
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@tommyngo
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5 months
Web3 is about supporting other true builders and our friends at Animoca have been a pillar in helping move the space forward. Both @mwolf and I are extremely excited to be joining the Mocaverse community and watching the future unfold. And name a better duo than my moca + ora
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@tommyngo
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5 months
Been seeing the sugartown team get more active in the space, engaging with communities, and all growing. I’m failing the team if I can’t do the same. Tongo’s education arc is now loading. Will write about web2 scale + web3 theses. More to come, lmk what else to write.
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@tommyngo
tommy ngo
11 months
Are you ready? 👀 See you in 30
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@tommyngo
tommy ngo
1 year
Gmgm How do we pronounce GIF? Is it Gif or Jif?
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@tommyngo
tommy ngo
9 months
All Time Heights event is now live. ✔️Said game would be chill, we delivered ✔️ Said we'll experiment a new reward structure, we delivered ✔️ Said we'll listen to the community, we did Actions > Words Sugartown is the alpha.
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5 months
Gaming is cyclical and a new vertical emerges every decade. Once the industry gets saturated, new tech brings in new gamers. 1990s/ Console gaming 2000s/ PC online gaming 2010s/ Mobile Gaming 2020s/ Web3 gaming Gaming's next big growth will be from web3. Sugartown is coming.
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@tommyngo
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11 months
Gmgm, would love to personally commission artists to draw a few Oras. Who's your favorite web3 artist?? HMU
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@tommyngo
tommy ngo
1 year
One of the best feelings in the world? Seeing your product, game being enjoyed by players. NGMI Alpha Event 1 hour in and I'm so happy to see folks like the game. 🥹
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@tommyngo
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5 months
Mobile games just aren't real games tbh. 1/ Mobile makes up over 50% of all of gaming revenues 2/ The #1 grossing mobile game in 2012 made $300k per day. In 2024, $4m+ per day 3/ Casino and poker genre in mobile games generate $10b per year Mobile gaming really is dying.
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@tommyngo
tommy ngo
11 days
It's not just an announcement, it's a rebirth.
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@tommyngo
tommy ngo
17 days
When the world zigs, you zag. That's conviction. Breaking paradigms, creating new norms, lead and not follow. That's what Sugartown is about, and that's what the team is best at. Locked in.
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@tommyngo
tommy ngo
11 months
ORA PFP change imminent when I finally choose my forever Ora 🥹 But before I swap my PFP, I wanted to show this amazing piece @kamogawayuka created for me and my best friend. Joey was so special to me and Yuka captured his essence perfectly. <3
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@tommyngo
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3 months
Web3 is an attention economy with zero sum liquidity. Increasing an ecosystem’s supply typically hurts the floor of their existing collections. What if there was a way to build demand, grow a player base, reward holders, all while not falling into this trap? Learn how 👇
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@tommyngo
tommy ngo
4 months
Gm. Say it back.
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@tommyngo
tommy ngo
5 months
Is this utility? ⚓️
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@tommyngo
tommy ngo
1 year
OMFG I’m so stoked, so I got way to excited and called my doctor I said listen maaan, this Sugartown thing it has me so pumped. I eat Sugartown, I speak Sugartown, I dream Sugartown. Sugartown is life man. I threw everything out for Sugartown.
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@tommyngo
tommy ngo
1 year
shoutout to @ohDotss for a dope experience with Augmints szn 3! got to pair my kaiju with a jolly rogers captainz hat 🏴‍☠️ #kingzontop
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@tommyngo
tommy ngo
1 year
Gm to everyone It’s a locked in Friday 🫡
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@tommyngo
tommy ngo
1 year
SUGARTOWN @mwolf and I are looking forward to talking all things ZW3, Sugartown, and web3 gaming with @waleswoosh and @shivst3r See ya'll there 🫡
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@tommyngo
tommy ngo
1 year
An omni-chain open edition? SHEESH. Congrats to @ohDotss and the Kaiju team on their launch!! This team has been delivering so much innovation to the space and is often overlooked. Minted, ready, and excited for Journals of Stod 🦖🫡
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1 year
KAIJU ORIGINS: The Journals of Stod The Replicator drop to begin your adventure is now LIVE and can be minted for only the next 48hrs at:
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@tommyngo
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1 year
Gmgm ☕️. @camolNFT said I needed to xeet more
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tommy ngo
5 months
Gm. Over 50% of jobs/roles are filled through referrals. If you're not building a network, you're cutting your chances down by half. Align yourself with people you admire, want to work with, want to work for, want to learn from.
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@tommyngo
tommy ngo
2 years
was sad to burn the letter, but this new card 🤩🤩🤩🔮
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tommy ngo
3 months
In web3 - your exp doesn't matter, your resume doesn't matter, your accomplishments don't matter. But your oversimplified tweets do matter. That's a problem in our space. We need to support real builders, empower them to experiment, and put our liquidity where our mouth is.
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@tommyngo
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8 months
Today we updated our smart contract to show your Oras in your wallet even when staked. Not only is this cool to see them, but also in real time help other platforms reference them for utility — like Nifty or Opensea’s unique holder count. Blockchain is undeniably amazing.
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4 months
Love seeing fantasy top get the much deserved love and traction. But while the game is well made and fun, it points to a core problem we have in the space -- all of our products and use cases are tailored ONLY to web3 natives. Want to play fantasy top? 1/ Understand crypto
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2 months
Sundays are sweeter in Sugartown. #SugartownSunday
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1 year
Ideas? Dime a dozen. Building something great is about execution and vision. Sugartown wouldn't be here without the amazing effort of the ZW3 team.
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7 months
Gm 🐶
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@tommyngo
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4 months
gm are we back yet?
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@tommyngo
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4 months
It's almost time. We're about to go nutz.
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2 months
Conviction. Motivation. Purpose. Fear. Stress. Excitement. All of it is needed for success, you just need to be ready for them. I'm ready, I'm locked in.
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@tommyngo
tommy ngo
6 months
3 days of GDC and dozens of meetings wrapped up. Should we recap in the next crystal cabal spaces?
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10 months
So proud of the Sugartown team and so excited for next week. All Holders access is the start of another beginning for Sugartown. We're builders, creators, and we love delivering products. Don't just listen to us, watch us.
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@tommyngo
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3 months
Knock knock.
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4 months
Gm Does this count as touching grass?
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2 months
Passive.
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11 months
Gm. Who else getting ready for the day?
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4 months
We have to be able to see the forest through the trees. It's a line @mwolf says often when we discuss our vision with Sugartown. We're not here to create short term narratives, we're building for the future of web3.
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@tommyngo
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1 month
Gm
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3 months
Gm
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@tommyngo
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30 days
Gm. Respect and conviction are needed for a team to work well together. Without it, the vision becomes blurry and execution becomes messy. Create a team you respect and members that respects you.
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1 month
Gm
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@tommyngo
tommy ngo
1 year
Jpeganomics > Dripanomics iykyk
@visitsugartown
Sugartown
1 year
Sugartown Oras Jpeganomics Details of our mint supply, reserves, and community expansion plans 👇
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5 months
Cross-community, cross-chain products are the future of Web3.
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5 months
The best advice I can give any current or aspiring product managers; know your users, know your industry. You can’t build what you don’t understand. Our team buys and researches jpegs, coins, and ordinals/runes -- both for the culture and to learn what's new. Data is alpha.
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13 days
When we say we're in the trenches.
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5 months
KPI tip and share for creators building a competitive game. You'll get the best retention if your players' win/loss ratio is between 45%-55%. This has been proven time and time again in several games and AB tests with 99% statistical significance. Want to win? Study data.
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9 months
Here at @visitsugartown , we don't just invest time and effort into the project, we want to support and show love to the community too. @camolNFT always expressed this importance daily so one his fun ideas was creating gifs for holders. W Have fun with your very own @DWebbs1 !!
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1 year
Web3 gaming is about value first, gameplay second. If the game focuses on the inverse, you are now competing with web2 publishers. Value is what brings people to crypto, NFTs, and web3 gaming. Potential value = hook Fun gameplay = engagement Rewards = retention
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5 months
Rifts.
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3 months
It's over.
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3 months
Is this utility? I support Sugartown mains and Sugartown sidekicks.
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@camolNFT
camol
3 months
MASSIVE UTILITY!!!!! You heard that right folks, I've got some massive utility for a LIMITED TIME ONLY. A lot of y'all are committed to your pfps, but also want to support new projects that you love. If you drop your Ora I will put it on the shoulder of your current pfp,
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5 months
Finding product market fit is both simple and tough -- give your users what they want. @mwolf and I use an analogy when talking about PMF. If you own a restaurant and the customer orders chicken, would you just serve them steak? Know your users, find the fit, then SCALE.
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10 months
For the (Halloween) culture
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4 months
Creating a successful web3 game is part of the journey. The destination is when we normalize the tech, then just call it gaming.
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2 years
Web2: Build a product and find product market fit Web3: Build a community and find it together
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tommy ngo
5 months
Not using the banner right now, but still love my Midnight Breeze from @dutchtide . Always here for the art. And this banner is honestly what my brain looks like at 3am.
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@tommyngo
tommy ngo
10 months
YOU WILL GIVE US ALL YOUR CANDY.
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tommy ngo
2 years
LOVE my clean looking @KPRVERSE . Congrats to @nfdoggo and the KPR team on an amazing reveal! Excited to be apart of the community and looking forward to the future of KPR 🙌
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Gm. What do you buy NFTs for? Be part of a community? Access games/rewards? For the art? Regardless of motivation, you can't lose by betting on teams. Showing up is half the battle so bet on teams who show up every. single. day. Conviction wins.
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10 months
NFTs have a clear path to success. It's not IF, but WHEN. Physical toy collectibles market size is $14b in 2023. General collectibles market (stamps, coins, memorabilia) is growing to $600b+. There's a clear use case for digital collectibles and our market is still growing.
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@tommyngo
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1 year
@visitsugartown im getting choice paralysis, im gonna need all 7
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5 months
mfw i check the prices/market caps of all the runes i bought yesterday
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@tommyngo
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1 year
Gm. Went to get coffee and saw these bag names Seems like a sign for today ⚡️⚡️⚡️
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@tommyngo
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1 year
@visitsugartown ORA you excited?!
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4 months
Gm and gm Spring time is finally here Sugar summer next.
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19 days
@camolNFT Let’s run it back but start at 8
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1 year
@RealJonahBlake @visitsugartown most don't change their views -- always appreciated your ability to revert on opinions based on new info @RealJonahBlake
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@tommyngo
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5 months
Gm Monday. Reminder to zoom out in times of panic or uncertainty. ETH up 34% in 2024 and 102% past 6 months. BTC up 46% in 2024 and 137% past 6 months. Web3 is about the long game.
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