#18: Harsh Rajat, Founder @ EPNS | Building a multichain web3 communication protocol that’s pushing notifications for ENS, Uniswap, dYdX, Coindesk, Snapshot & more

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How EPNS solved the chicken-egg growth problem and acquired their first 44k users? What were the biggest tech challenges & dead-end streets so far and how EPNS tackled them? And what strange outfit have people worn for a VIP crypto dinner? 

This, and much more, has been covered by Harsh Rajat, Founder of EPNS in this episode.

Timestamps:

1:20 How he got to web3 and how he used the bot that helped him trading

3:23 What’s the vision behind EPNS, his experiences in mobile development, and the difference between web2 & web3 notifications

12:08 Why they ditched (for now) the idea of rewarding people for reading notifications

13:10 How they acquired their first users & partners and solved the chicken-egg problem

16:06 How the Ethereum community helped their product

17:45 How they’ve acquired their 44k users and how do they do it today

19:55 What kind of project can you build on EPNS

22:25 How being a protocol helps to protect EPNS from hackers

25:08 The biggest technological challenges they’ve faced so far

27:54 What were the dead-end streets that have they tried before

30:35 How does PUSH token work

33:10 What’s EPNS’ way of progressively decentralizing to avoid chaos

37:00 Most mind-blowing web3 project

41:12 Funniest thing that happened to Harsh (the VIP dinner story)

43:00 Other builders that could be a good fit for a podcast