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How to Be Successful in Web3

· 2 min read
Sébastien Lorber
Sébastien Lorber
Docusaurus maintainer
Yangshun Tay
Yangshun Tay
Ex-Meta Staff Engineer, Co-founder GreatFrontEnd

Web3 rewards people who ship, share, and iterate in public.
Here’s a tight playbook you can actually follow.

If you only remember three things, make them these:

  1. Build in public
  2. Ask for help the right way
  3. Don’t get stuck — go get it

1) Build in public​

Why it works: credibility and opportunity in web3 are public-goods. When you share your process, you attract collaborators, reviewers, testers, and—eventually—users.

What to share​

  • Daily or weekly progress notes: one screenshot, one insight, one next step.
  • Decisions & trade-offs: why you chose Protocol A over B.
  • Roadmap & scope cuts: show what you’re not building (yet).
  • Post-mortems: bugs, gas surprises, RPC issues—teach what bit you.

Where to share​

  • GitHub (issues, PRs, Releases)
  • Farcaster / X (short progress logs)
  • Mirror / blog (long-form writeups)
  • Discord / Telegram (feedback loops)
  • Testnet links + minimal repro repos

Minimal cadence (copy this)​

  • Ship something small 2–3×/week.
  • Log it publicly in ≤ 5 bullets.
  • Ask for 1 concrete review per week.
Proof-of-work, not promises

Screenshots, PR links, contracts, and testnet txs beat roadmaps every time.

2) How to ask for help (so people want to help)​

Goal: make it easy to say “yes” in under 60 seconds.

Help request checklist​

  • Context (1–2 lines): what you’re building and what you expect to happen.
  • Minimal repro: link to a tiny repo, gist, or code block. No private monoliths.
  • Exact error or behavior: paste logs/tx hash, include network (testnet/mainnet).
  • What you tried: 3 bullets max (docs you read, flags you flipped).
  • The question: one sentence. (“How do I sign typed data with wagmi v2?”)

Pasteable template​

**What I’m building:** <one-liner>
**Problem:** <expected vs actual, with version numbers>
**Minimal repro:** <link to small repo/gist + steps to run>
**Tried:** 1) ... 2) ... 3) ...
**Question:** <one clear ask>
**Environment:** Node x.y, <chain>, <lib versions>