We are grateful for our Octane Funding, and grateful to the core team for initially believing in us. We were fortunate enough to get equity funding from the Octane Fund, while many other great devs and teams did not. With the upcoming hackathon at Princeton, we really hope that DeSo doesn’t abandon good projects just because they don’t think they have potential to go viral. It’s not just viral apps that we believe make a blockchain ecosystem thrive. It’s also the consistent developers who are there for the community at every turn along the way, steadily building and innovating at a consistent pace. Every app doesn’t need to be a viral-growth-hack. An ecosystem needs reliability and consistency as well. We beg DeSo not to mislead developers with promises of funding if they do x, y, and z, only to leave them empty-handed after doing so. We believe everything in life is a learning experience and we all continue to learn everyday.

Keep going strong Deso! Thanks so much to all of you who made these past 679 days awesome! Keep it going!

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A big, warm THANK YOU for all that you have done for the DeSo community -- and continue to do.

I honestly don't know how you both were able to create a video every day for so long. I have a hard time even making one video a month.

Though I will miss the videos, still look forward to seeing you around in the community.

Cheers.

You guys are the best! Respect your decision. It’s not easy putting 200% of you time into something. You guys did it and helped DeSo get to where it is. Up up up from here. Ty guys! Sending love ❤️

HUGE appreciation for all the videos you have made and certainly understand the effort required and the motivation needed to keep making DeSo videos.

Everything you said makes sense and looking forward to still seeing you on chain.

We feel you guys 💙❤️

We understand and respect your decision. The trend to support possible future builders while abandoning awesome consistent loyal creators like you is very concerning

But we want to be this post to be about a very BIG thank you. A thank you for all you have done for DeSo. Despite hurricanes and other challenges you have always been posting high quality videos. We loved being on your shows. And you have been a big support to our project in so many ways. Thank you 🙏