#228: Accessing TPan's 🧠 the TPan Way

🤝 Finding TPan x Product Fit

This is a premium-only piece, but not your average premium piece 😉

This is the first time I’ve done this in lieu of a regular piece and I want to strike while the inspiration iron is hot.

Let’s go through some context, my favorite!

The history of Web3 with TPan Premium

September 2022

TPan writes his 100th piece and launches a premium subscription option.

September-November 2022

TPan plays around with a weekly ‘Below the Fold’ edition only available for premium subs. The content focuses on the personal side of TPan and what is on his mind related to the Web3 space. Here’s an example if you forgot or were a premium subscriber after the fact.

I even tried a couple editions of this on Paragraph.

The value of these weekly premium newsletters didn’t sit right with me, and I don’t think they were that valuable to you.

September 2022-February 2023

TPan stresses out about how to provide meaningful value to his premium subscribers beyond more newsletter content. He doesn’t want to just ‘write more content’.

March 2023

TPan hit inspiration after some conversations at ETH Denver! Begins work on a project for premium subs.

April 2023-August 2023

The excitement around the ETH Denver idea fizzles. TPan knows he’ll get back to working on it…eventually.

The pressure of providing value to premium subscriber fades, but doesn’t leave. TPan knows that something will come, and he’ll know when it does.

Premium subscribers slowly churn (understandable!) but everyone that’s left is a sincere supporter of TPan and his work, viewing it more like a Patreon subscription of sorts.