Things move exceptionally fast in Crypto, and post.tech proves that it is no exception. Launching just this past week, post.tech is already showing parabolic growth, and the overall sentiment of its users (including me) is that it somehow has managed to take the best of both friend.tech and X (twittter) and melded them both into one.
Similar to the land/key grabs that we saw with the inception of friend.tech, it hasn’t been a week and the pure number of shares traded is breaking 150k, with more than 100 $ETH in fees collected in the last 24 hours alone.
Here are some key features that are helping post.tech’s success…
Clear and transparent ways to earn points
One of the difficulties about friend.tech is that there was never a clear map of how to earn points. One could argue that this deterred people gamefying the system, but seeing the lengths that people were taking to figure out how to do so, I think that even if post.tech didn’t spell it out easily, people would have figured out the secret sauce eventually.
Not only does post.tech make it easy, they even have a calculator to figure out exactly how many points you can expect:
Engagement, Engagement, Engagement
As you can see in the graphic above, there are several levers that users can use to game points — all which involve amassing engagement on the platform. The cool part about this is according to “How Points Work,” it rewards activity both on the Post.tech platform itself as well as on X (Twitter):
With all these levers, there’s a LOT of people trying to drive up as much engagement as possible, like this guy for instance who…seriously needs to stop using all caps:
And look, make fun of the guy all you want but his shares are trading at more than .7 $ETH a pop.
How much are points worth?
So first of all post.tech’s points are known as “Epoch points” with each epoch roughly lasting 2 weeks. The first Epoch which is going on at the time of writing ends on September 22nd, and contains a prize pool of points worth $100,000:
The amount of points that a user is able to earn in a given epoch will determine what their payout is of that given epoch’s pool. While I’m writing this article, my roughly 500,000 epoch points appear to be getting diluted like crazy and per second as I’m seeing my equivalent share of the prize pool whittle away. And half a million points may seem like a lot, but it dwarfs in comparison to those currently on the leaderboard:
Still half-baked for now
On the surface level the user interface looks good, the platform appears to be running pretty smoothly as things are being tracked across twitter/X and post-tech instantaneously. Regardless, there are some key issues that are definitely missing which need to be built out or worked on…
Search function — it does say “Coming soon,” but without being able to have any type of search function, if you’re looking for a particular user you have to look it up manually.
Therefore if you are trying to look someone up, you need to enter their username after “post.tech/user/” — or for example, the link to my direct profile is as follows: https://post.tech/user/CryptosWith
Server outages — annoying for the user to have perhaps, but obviously a strong indicator for how much activity they’ve been getting. It does seem that they’re building around the clock with new features being added all the time:
For instance, the leaderboard I mentioned earlier didn’t even exist 10 hours ago.
Get ready for a lot of SPAM, and a lot of scams— with a lot of speculation for how much points are actually going to end up being worth, we’re going to see a lot of people just spam the crap out of post.tech with completely useless content:
And if you thought you were tired of getting tagged in scam tweets about fake airdrops on Twitter — post.tech will actually pay scammers in points for doing so.
Conclusion
With the functionality of post.tech changing by the day, I am excited to see what steps will be taken going forward to keep this experiment going. Obviously platforms like friend.tech and post.tech have tapped into something huge that is itching the base of everyone’s brain, but it’s obviously still incomplete and evolving day-by-day.
And as promised, here are some invite codes if you’re interested in checking either post.tech and/or friend.tech out, which I will try to keep up to date as much as possible:
Post.tech Invite Codes
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p̵t̵-̵u̵j̵g̵e̵b̵l̵s̵g̵z̵t̵
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Friend.tech Invite codes
f̵t̵-̵m̵n̵w̵k̵8̵x̵s̵r̵
f̵t̵-̵o̵k̵p̵j̵6̵1̵q̵6̵
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f̵t̵-̵u̵9̵4̵7̵3̵k̵o̵2̵
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And if you’re new to friend.tech as well, feel free to check out my previous analysis I completed last month:
And as always, thanks for taking the time to read this and be sure to follow me on twitter (https://twitter.com/CryptosWith) to get all my latest updates. Also, looking for a gift for your Crypto-loving/hating friend? Give them a REKT journal to cheer them up!
Disclaimer: And as a final reminder, this is not financial advice and this is for educational and entertainment purposes only. Please as always, do your own research and find what investments are best for you. Cheers everyone!
