SimpleHash is one of the most powerful NFT APIs in the space. It's being used by wallets, portfolio trackers & web3 games. Olly Wilson came to the pod to share the backstage perspective of their ultra fast growth.
Timestamps:
0:38
What is SimpleHash
1:39
How their Co-Founder got tired of building back-end infra for an NFT project and decided to start SimpleHash
2:47
Why is indexing NFTs across many chains so hard?
5:25
How being in YC helped them to acquire first users
6:22
Why they ditched the idea of an NFT search tool
7:10
What's their process for supporting and integrating new chains
9:34
Why do they go very deep into NFT data and specialize to compete with other NFT APIs
11:40
How do they solve the corrupted media problems in NFTs
12:37
How they designed the NFT Spam Score to protect wallets from unsolicited and scammy airdrops
15:11
What are their most important metrics?
16:20
Why is everyone on their team involved in customer support, and how do they decide what features to implement?
19:20
Why Olly likes the OG NFT projects
20:50
Olly's thoughts on utility NFTs
21:55
Why joining YC was worth it
23:35
What growth & tech challenges do they see on the horizon?
24:49
How do they take care of their business's infra side, and why is 850M indexed NFTs still a small dataset?
26:00
What would he build if he weren't building SimpleHash?
26:20
Why removing the scams would be the target of his magic wand?
27:00
Why Ethereum Merge is the most mind-blowing project that Olly has seen
28:26
Why he likes the crypto twitter's dark humor
29:20
Where to find out more about SimpleHash
