Dose of Nothing #20: Return of the Dose — 9/16/2022

Dose of Nothing Primer

The “Dose of Nothing” exists to provide frequent updates to the PN community regarding the PN Team’s work building out the vision and future of Probably Nothing. The goal is to bring you information in real-time and be as transparent as possible throughout this process.

Thank you for being part of the community and trusting in the process!

Product Ø

Work continues on building out the top-secret Product Ø, a resource for NFT collectors that you know very little about. We have settled on an MVP launch date and are preparing our go-to-market (GTM) strategy.

Product Ø GTM Campaign

We have spent a great deal of time in the last two weeks brainstorming campaign ideas for Product Ø and had one of our Advisors, TheSmarmyBum (aka Justin) join us for one of these key sessions. Justin shared some fantastic ideas and insights on how to best show our product to the world, helping us lay the groundwork for what this marketing campaign will look like.

We have also been discussing how and when we can bring the community closer to the process and start to show people what it is we are building. We want to reward the community members who have stayed active, supportive, and engaged through this build market period, and we have been exploring different ways of doing that. We will look for those opportunities as our launch date approaches.

Partnerships

We met with the A0k1verse team last week to continue exploring ways the two communities can partner and pitched them on a few opportunities. We look forward to their feedback and closing this partnership deal soon.

We have also been working with a new partner over the last few weeks, someone who is building out a very unique and exciting Web3 solution. We will be sharing more about what this partnership looks like and how our community can engage soon.

Open Source Alpha (ØSA)

We have had a very active week for our Open Source Alpha initiative. We secured 20 spots for The Rabbles NFT, a free upcoming mint introduced to us by community member Williaʍ#1570. We raffled off the spots to $PRBLY holders.

Yesterday, we hosted a call with Pacman, the founder of the Blur NFT trading platform. Pacman did a live walkthrough of the platform, answered questions, and provided whitelist access to all $PRBLY holders that were in attendance. It was a very eye-opening session, and we are looking forward to test driving Blur and supporting another project that is building something with real utility for the space. We have created a specific Discord channel where $PRBLY holders can request access to Blur and ask questions about the platform.

Process Stuff

We have made the decision as a team to shift to 1 week sprints, tightening our sprint cycles and feedback loops to really hone in on Product Ø development as well as the rest of our Probably Nothing work. We have shortened the length of our sprint planning and sprint review/retro sessions to accommodate more frequent meetings. Excited to see the impact this has on our workflow and output.

Since it has been some time since our last Dose, below is a sample of a typical week of meetings for the team:

Mondays:

• Marketing Meeting
• Team Sync
• Community Spaces

Tuesdays:

• Community Meeting
• Open Source Alpha Meeting

Wednesdays

• Product Meeting
• Community Open Source Alpha Discord Call
• Sprint Review (from previous sprint)
• Sprint Planning

We also hold standup meetings throughout the week, 15 minute meetings where we get together to discuss what we have been working on, what we will be working on, and where we are blocked from progressing in our work. Thursdays and Fridays are typically the days we schedule breakout meetings for any new initiatives, team decision making, brainstorming sessions, and meetings with potential partners.

Community Giveaways

We used to feature a section in every Dose of Nothing where we would share about the different community-hosted giveaways happening in the Probably Nothing community. As a team we have continued to host giveaways and share OSB opportunities for people to win prizes, but the community side has fallen off a bit in the current market conditions.

In other words: we are here to ask if that spirit of generosity still lives in our community. So, if you are feeling the vibes and want to give back to the best community in Web3 fire up a giveaway and we will feature you here next time we do a Dose of Nothing!

New Dev, Who Dis?

We have hinted at this before, but we have hired a new engineer to the team. He has already been working with us for some time now, but look for the official announcement to come in the next couple weeks. He is one badass engineer though and he has been a great addition to the team.

From Fungibles:

We need your help. We’re lining everything up from the right people in the project, a go-to-market strategy, and a product launch end of year. We cannot do this without the support of the community. The farther along we go the more we will start to open up and allow the community to participate in the direction of the project as well as the features that are built.

We’ve had to remain somewhat secretive to protect ourselves from a competitive positioning at least until we’re able to go public but all that is starting to change in the next few months and we’re really going to ramp up open-source business.

We appreciate everybody’s patience, and loyalty through this bear market as we build. We aren’t a project with millions to burn. We need to be careful how we spend, and we also need to get everyone who wants to be as involved as possible. We need to be consistent in our communication and marketing. This is going to take a movement of people, not a few top influencers sending a tweet out occasionally.

As promised, we will do everything we can to make this project successful.

Thank you for being apart of this experiment with us. — fungie

Learn More About Probably Nothing:

📄 Read the Token about Probably Nothing Thesis by fungibles

🤝 Join the Probably Nothing Community on Discord

🌐 Check out the Probably Nothing Website

🕊️ Follow Probably Nothing on Twitter

📁 Read the Probably Nothing Whitepaper

🔥 Buy $PRBLY on Uniswap

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