Rahmat "Riqi" Albariqi is founder of Paras, one of the fastest growing NFT marketplaces built on the NEAR protocol. In this episode he talks with Sasha about: 

 • Differences in building a product integrating blockchain versus a traditional Web2 company

 • Finding your niche as a platform

 • Pivoting from building websites to social media to an NFT marketplace

 • Onboarding new artists onto their platform

 • Growing usage for your product after you've launched

 • Finding channels to grow your community

 • Deciding between Rust or TypeScript to develop on

 • How artists can get paid with NFTs in a way that the internet did not deliver

Episode links:

Riqi: https://twitter.com/hdriqi

Paras: https://paras.id/

Paras Medium: https://medium.com/paras-media

ArtStation: https://www.artstation.com/?sort_by=community

Sasha Hudzilin: @AliaksandrH

Learn more about the Open Web Collective accelerator and be a part of a community of Web3 founders: https://www.openwebcollective.com

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