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Bold prediction: the sneaker/reselling community will be looked at like a much larger PayPal mafia in 5-10 years time
Mart retweeted
Enterprise tech companies celebrate deploying twice a week.
Sneaker Twitter was Shopify pushing an anti bot patch at 9:55 AM before a 10:00 drop.
You had 5 minutes to reverse it, patch the core, compile and push an update to 10k PCs, while those same 10k users were killing your CDN trying to download it.
9:57 AM, Discord going crazy, spinning up mirrors, Union Jordan 1s in 3 minutes.
Somehow we thought this was a normal Saturday.
Mart retweeted
Honestly what a time. And it's crazy to me that reselling is still profitable to this day... Still remember the days when we were using open source PHP scripts to generate Adidas ATC links...
This scene has taught me more than any master degree or corporate job possibly could. We were building and iterating faster than the engineering teams of the brands we were botting and the companies responsible for their infrastructure - at a fraction of the team size.
Nothing will beat the rush of deploying a last minute update to thousands of users or being the only bot hitting a drop.
The sheer amount of ingenuity required from devs of this community to find ways to beat the competition and get the slightest edge was just crazy and led to some insane finds from bypasses to undocumented APIs to admin tokens... the list goes on.
And to see some great talent go on to build even greater things is just amazing. I'm not surprised in the slightest way.
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We just raised $13M Series A.
Rocapine builds wellness apps that hold instead of hook: apps that earn their place in your day instead of stealing it.$6M ARR, 2.5M+ downloads, multiple hits, in under a year.
Here's the bet 🧵
Technology was supposed to make us greater. For decades it did. The Flynn Effect saw IQs climb generation after generation: we grew smarter, healthier, more connected.
Then something flipped. Over the last two decades the promise broke. IQ scores started falling. The tools built to lift us began wearing us down.
Today we each spend 5h16m a day on phones designed to hook us. The apps winning right now don't earn attention, they engineer it, then sell it. The emptier we feel, the better their numbers look.
We started Rocapine to flip that script. Apps that hold instead of hook. The result so far: $6M ARR, 2.5M+ downloads, multiple hits in under a year.
Now we're scaling: $13M Series A to help 40M people feel truly alive in the next five years.If you build apps or run a studio and want to build things that hold instead of hook, our DMs are open. Come build with us. 👇
