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Justin Kan

I’m Justin Kan, former co-founder of Twitch, co-founder of Fractal, and now co-founder of Rye! AMA!

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I cofounded and recently launched Rye - an eCommerce API that lets developers add new revenue streams for their products by adding eCommerce and checkout into any app or website. Ask me anything about Rye, entrepreneurship, eCommerce, and crypto. I'll be answering questions on Friday, the 14th of October!
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Roi Shomer
Hi Justin, you've brought super exciting news! Just wondering if and how Sayollo's gComm embedded commerce can become a complementary to Rye! (or vise verse)
Tomas Budrys
Hi Justin, A product that can potentially help to realize my concept. I have a few questions though: 1) Is Rye web2 or web3 oriented? 2) If I want to list products from clothing web shops (non-Shopify or Amazon). Can I do that? If I can, can I set the affiliation programs/systems assuming that they do not have one in place?
Justin Kan
@tomas_budrys Rye is a web3 project that could exist as web2 (i.e. it is actually a valuable standalone idea even if you removed the crypto components). 2) not yet, but we will allow eventually.
Tomas Budrys
@justinkan Thanks! Meeting Saurabh Sharma from your team today to learn more about the affiliation system. I am positive that we will use Rye for the project.
Nadezhda Babushkina
Rye looks very sleek! May I ask you why there is not much of no code embeddable checkouts?
Vlad Duda
What are your plans for handling communication between customers i.e notifications about orders. This space is filled with customer obsession as the ultimate metric.
Denislav Jeliazkov
Hey Justin, I remember in some of your videos you said that when building a product for the first time you are obsessed with it, but when your building for the second time you are focused on distribution. This is your third (forth) venture and how does it change your approach to building Rye?
razz
hey justin, thanks for hosting this! what makes rye more decentralized and user empowering than any other existing e-com or media platform today? in more detail: how does it make creators less vulnerable to arbitrary changes by the rye platform owners than, say, on opensea and, worse yet, amazon or google?
Justin Kan
@razzkolnikov the goal is to open Rye up as a protocol that is controlled by the community to prevent a central authority from dictating what happens on the platform.
razz
@justinkan beautiful answer; it's for that level of intelligence and transparency that i've got tons of respect for you, man. hope you'll succeed and build something great. decentralization is the future.
Nik
How do you envision the intersection of Rye and NFTs? I think it would be awesome to see virtual outfits & accessories being supported by the protocol one day. You could imagine creators spinning up stores and selling these NFTs through various virtual shops across games & other metaverse applications.
Abid Unnisa
What inspires you to make a decision of whether or not to invest in a certain product/company?
Angelina Quan
Hi Justin! I’m Angelina Quan, a high school junior interested in CS and crypto. I’ve had previous research and work experiences with blockchains, and I would like to intern for Rye. As a high schooler, I'll bring a new perspective to your team, and I'm dedicated and willing to put in the time and effort - I will be an asset to your team and not a burden. Let me know what you think and if you have any questions! Looking forward to hearing from you, Angelina Quan
Bhoomi Gupta
Hey Justin Big Fan!! I don't even know if you're going to see this but I appreciate you so much. I wish you could see my product when I post it here. It would mean a lot since you're footsteps are like a mentor to me. Thank you Thank you thank you!!
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