Daws.eth : Dapp Development, OSS Tooling, & Becoming an Indie Hacker

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Dawson is the founder of Earnifi, a platform which helps you stay on top of airdrops in web3. He is a serial hacker and has contributed to/created many open source projects to improve his own life & the lives of dapp developers.

In this episode, we talk in detail about building high performance decentralized applications, and step through Dawson's journey becoming an indie hacker. If you're a full stack dev that wants to take a highly performant app to market - this episode is for you.

Links Discussed in the Episode:
Earnifi: https://earni.fi
Dawson's OSS Contributions: https://earni.fi/oss
Bun.js: https://bun.sh/
WASM: https://webassembly.org/
YC Startup School: https://www.startupschool.org/
Indie Hackers: https://www.indiehackers.com/

0:00 Intro
3:17 How Dawson got involved in the space
9:01 Dawson’s first real crypto project: putting election data on chain
11:55 Earnifi’s early beginnings
16:13 What full stack web2 devs should know before building a web3 application
21:18 Re-writing ethers for optimal performance
24:18 "Typescript is mandatory at this point"
26:57 Dawson’s open source contributions
33:50 Approaching entrepreneurship as a developer
39:20 You just won a hackathon, and are considering building a business around your idea. What should you do next?
43:34 Creating space to pursue your own projects as a developer
47:53 Why now is the time to build privacy-preserving applications
52:31 What would Dawson work on if he had 6 months of free time?
55:12 WASM, Bun.js, and the future of web3 front ends
58:41 Why safe, high quality DeFi is important for the world