We recap the first year of OpenAgents and look ahead to year two.
Topics:
- What went right & wrong with our agent store launch
- Our pivot to business customers and a tour of our new 'pro' product
- The upcoming relaunch of our agent store and bitcoin incentives
A few highlights: 👇
OUR THESIS: OPEN AGENTS FOR EVERYONE
"Our core thesis is intact. I expressed in the opening video of this series, we now agree with Sam Altman that the future would be agents. Agents are the thing that businesses and people will be paying for. And to take that one step further, we believe that every person, every business, every family, every street corner, every device is going to have one or more AI agents working on your behalf or as part of the system or device or physical location. Agents will be everywhere.
Do you want these massive closed-source corporations with poor incentives, incentives to get their tendrils around the government, scaremonger about AI safety and try to erect barriers to keep out startups? We cannot let that happen. The stakes are too high to mess with that level of interference with what should be an organic, bottom-up, evolutionary process."
BITCOIN/NOSTR & INCENTIVIZED INTEROPERABILITY
"Incentivized interop matters. What we had with 20 different developers coming to write plugins [and earning bitcoin revenue share], I could see very clearly that this is the future of how we build this unified agent substrate that's usable by all people.
Obviously this idea of an operating system for all businesses is probably larger of a scope than any single person or company is going to be able to take on, but we are certainly positioned at OpenAgents to provide a leading role in that in part because we have an answer to this question of incentivized interoperability."
"How you incentivize participation is you pay people. You pay people what? Money. What do you not pay them? You don't pay them a fucking shitcoin chuck-e-cheese coupon that somebody just made up. You pay them real money. How do you get real money? Customers pay you for it. Not that everyone needs to pay us in bitcoin, you can pay us in dollars and we'll pay out in bitcoin."
We'll be opening up our v3 pro product in the coming weeks to more business users, preparing for a broader public launch along with the relaunch of our agent store in the coming months. DM us for early access or fill out the inquiry form on openagents dot com.
A massive thank you to all our users and supporters and everyone who's given us feedback or retweets or attention or anything else. ❤️
Much more to come! Stay tuned 🤖👍