Live and Unlonley! - ZEROPOD Ep. 18 with Grace and Brian Guan, founders of Unlonely.app

Nov 28 2023

Episode 18 of the Zero Rights Reserved Podcast is a special one because it’s the first time we’ve ever streamed an interview live. We did so on the Unlonely web3 streaming platform, which only seemed natural, as ZEROPOD’s Toady Hawk and ProfWerder were hosting Grace and Brian Guan, the founders of Unlonely!

We talked to them about their individual onchain journeys, why they decided to tackle the difficult issue of decentralized web 3 streaming, their recent hit web series “Love on Leverage”, what’s coming next, and more!

Timestamps:

00:00 - We do it LIVE
00:30 - ZEROPOD Intro
00:45 - Grace’s story
02:13 - The Sibling dynamic
03:38 - “Big Tech Corporate Girlie”
04:00 - Crypto-pilled
04:38 - Wanting to solve problems seen at Google and YouTube
05:28 - Kitty Cameo
06:32 - Enter Brian
08:10 - Early Unlonley days
11:16 - Love to Farcaster
14:33 - Why Unlonely?
16:39 - The ⁠Frend.tech⁠ Effect (the importance of cashflow positive)
18:54 - Show, don’t tell
22:00 - Any legal concerns with in-chat betting?
25:00 - Gamified streaming
27:49 - Love on Leverage
31:00 - WorldCoin Orb Rizz
32:51 - Love on Leverage Success
36:38 - The Rizz Olympics
39:22 - What is RIZZ?
41:08 - Network Rizz
42:00 - Rizzommendations
44:00 - “Unlonely - It’s in the name.”
47:00 - Esports opportunity?
50:00 - Impromptu biz dev sesh
51:43 - Privy, PWA and onboarding
53:00 - Content is King
55:20 - Pay-Per-Rizz
55:55 - A decentralized alternative for content creators
56:44 - Auditor-gate
1:00:00 - Unfundable.eth
1:05:00 - Guans on Nouns
1:08:00 - The value of being contrarian
1:09:00 - Grace flashes some Nouns swag
1:10:00 - Brian being NSFW
1:11:49 - Brian coming for DWR
1:15:00 - Outro

Podcast recorded by Toady Hawk, edited by Toady Hawk and JackWyldes. Hosted by Toady Hawk and Prof Werder. Music by SuperTightWoody.

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