Kiwi News is Ethereum’s Hacker News. It lets users submit, upvote, and comment on links, and - just like Hacker News - meet people who share their interests. Our links are focused on crypto tech, products, and culture and are stored on the P2P Kiwi Protocol, which makes Kiwi News a credibly neutral social media platform.
At the moment, we have around 1,500 monthly users who read Kiwi and about 120 monthly curators who submit, upvote, and comment on links.
We help crypto builders find signal, partners to discussion and support they need to build the decentralized future. Our goal is to reform the crypto space so that quality projects win again.
The crypto space - with all the scams, influencers shilling, and low-quality projects winning because of great marketing - needs reform direly. We know that Kiwi could be a tool that helps to make our culture more focused on builders and cypherpunk values.
This is how it worked with Hacker News. For decades now, Hacker News has acted as a sort of regulatory organ for the elite decision makers in Silicon Valley. Tech culture is down stream of Hacker News, and so this means culture is defined there and flows into the main stream. Hacker News is tremendously important as collaborative and coordinative technology in the web2 space. Ask any web2 dev what’s going on today and they’ll highly likely quote a headline they read on HN today.
The reason Hacker News has persisted as this institution is that it isn’t subjected to the same growing pains as Reddit, Facebook, or Twitter. They haven’t had to optimize growth for the marginal user, they were able to just serve nerds! Thanks to that they stayed focused on the niche and were able to deliver high quality content for over 15 years.
Kiwi News wants to be like Hacker News, but for the developers, decision-makers and investors in the Ethereum space. We want to move away from atomizing the individual with personalized feeds we have on Twitter and other social media. We want to create a shared perception and experience of what crypto is throughout the news cycle, where everyone - like on Hacker News - consumes and discusses the same feed.
Kiwi News is the anti-thesis of Twiter, Reddit and Facebook: On Kiwi everyone reads the same feed and everyone has to decide whether a link is worth someone else’s time (a user can decide to submit or upvote a link). On Twitter, Elon Musk’s like weighs more than a like from any user. But on Kiwi, every like has the same weight, which means that the feed is less about the popularity contest and more about meritocracy.
We are in the middle of growing our platform. It is still pretty small, but our hope is that eventually, we can influence Ethereum culture for the better by not making them chase the next casino memecoin, but by thinking critically about how crypto can bring about a meaningful impact on society.
We sell Kiwi Passes that let people submit, upvote, and comment on links. They also let people join our groupchat. We also run writing contests with different projects (Gnosis, Lens, Nouns) and generate some revenue from that.
Want to grow through just grant funding
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