Focus Walkthrough with DeSo Founder Nader Al-Naji

Focus is a new type of social network that mixes crypto speculation and social media. Focus is built from the ground up on the state-of-the-art Decentralized Social blockchain, aka DeSo, which is backed by Sequoia, Social Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, and Coinbase. Focus introduces new ways for creators to monetize and leverages a new kind of viral mechanic we call the social airdrop to maximize retention and solve the cold-start problem.

Time Stamps:
0:00 Intro
1:44 Logging into Focus
2:48 Focus Homepage
3:22 Focus on/off ramp
4:49 Focus Wallet
5:41 Focus Social Features
6:39 Subscriptions + Gated Content
8:53 Paid Messages
10:52 Pay to View
11:25 Pay to Repost
11:49 Launching a Coin on Focus
15:30 Buying & Selling Coins via Openfund
18:55 Tipping on Focus
20:09 Custom Content Feeds
22:47 Discover Feature
23:38 Final Features
24:12 Focus Virality
26:04 Join to Earn
27:35 The Bounty Hunter

Learn more about DeSo:
Focus
Website
Openfund
HeroSwap
Twitter
Founder
Jacob's Twitter

DeSo is the first layer-1 blockchain built from the ground up to decentralize social media and scale storage-heavy apps to billions of users.

DeSo was founded by crypto veteran Nader Al-Naji.

#Web3 #DeSo

[jstechlead]

here before 10 billion DESO cap (and I am core DeSo Dev too)

[MechellLordFL]

We were the BitClout community…
Then we were the DeSo community…
Wondering if there will we be a Focus community?
Retention has always been an issue Nader didn’t tackle and the community bonds worked in his favor.

Will the BitClout OGs come back to this “new” format? (looks just like old BitClout 😂)
Always hoping to see this project succeed as I was there since week one BitClout and the community has been amazing and resilient (off chain real friendships were created).

I do hope he hires a Marketing firm as this video isn’t going to drive adoption and trust. IMO

[A.B-rb]

This is pretty spectacular... all the money native features can unleash a tremendous amount of creativity and activity. Also love the different layout options (modern vs classic... or maybe it's normies vs nerds)

[smdb]

All is very cool, but most of the people and creators are not familiar with crypto at all. In my opinion, if we want this to be adopted as the future of all social networks, all these crypto features should be optional for newby users so that they don't become overwhelmed. Hide them somehow or make an optional "crypto-view" of the whole app, or the opposite, make an optional "regular-user-view" of the app. Then, implement notifications, tutorials or pop ups, so that the user gets familiar with all these things step by step. Otherwise, the set of users that will in Focus will be very limited and will not grow.

[alexanderchenf]

Using classic interface as demo is a terrible idea.

[raulitonandez]

I bought 240 deso at $6, 45 we all have to be careful and research about this SEC thing! Someone else's can take the lead of deso

[ComeOnMan]

Deso has been ruined. We need a new coin. People don't like being sucker's

[xXx-lfg]

Its been done on impervious and rep from Gala.

[xXx-lfg]

So you think people with money are more important? lol hope you have an option for us to order it however we want, whos important to us...Not who you think is important.

[WilliamLaurent]

The UI looks like Bitclout?

A rambling 30 min video is not what is going to drive DESO adoption.

I love my DESO family, but with all due respect: looks like we are in for another disappointment.