, writing to you with a big smile on my face. Why am I breaking the fourth wall? Because today, we celebrate 100 weeks of This Week in Web3. 🥳
As i sit here, on my balcony in the mountains, collecting my thoughts, reflecting on the research done, emails sent, discussions held, lessons learned, and these amazing numbers that show your incredible support, it fills me and the entire team with so much pride and joy! ✨
Looking at these numbers, one thing becomes clear: Every idea, every mission, and every small spark of inspiration requires a team to bring it to life. 👏 And it's our women-led team that made all this happen! Over the last 100 weeks, we’ve poured our hearts into making this newsletter bigger and better. Let me take you through our journey right to this milestone.
✨ 100 Weeks with the Dream Team
Here’s a look back at where it all began—from our humble beginnings to the growth of our team, and our expanding impact across the globe. This is how our collective efforts brought you these insights, and we built this strong community. Here’s the journey, the milestones, and every little success that has brought us here today!
🌟 The Spark That Started It All
It all began with a simple yet ambitious idea at Spacekayak—to build a content hub rich in web3, allowing us to dive deeper and share these insights with you. Our goal was to anchor this platform with top-notch content to ease the tension around the bear cycle by bringing the absolute truth of the market and awareness to you. And that’s how KABL3 was launched as a Twitter and Instagram channel accompanied by a weekly curated newsletter. 🗞
I remember the excitement when we hit our first 100 subscribers within a month; it was clear we were doing something valuable and special here. Hyped up by this response, we decided to focus our efforts exclusively on This Week in Web3 as a newsletter.
🤝 A Partnership of Purpose
About 20 weeks in, we realized that our passion was digging deeper into web3—researching, writing, and creating more impactful content. This was when we sat down with Paul to map out our future steps. What direction were we heading? What was the bigger vision? 🤔
It became clear that our next move was to engage our readers more deeply—turning our committed reader base into a thriving community. That's when The Product House came into the picture!
We were already friends with Suhas Motwani and Aditya Mohanty, who were busy building an engaged community of web3 learners and builders at TPH. This partnership was exactly what we needed to expand our reach and nurture a community-backed readership. 🤝
From there, our numbers began to climb steadily—10K, 15K, and then 20K readers!
🏃♀️ Small-Big Steps: Bridging Web2 to Web3
With a reader base of over 20K, delivering top-notch content and providing the value you're here for became our prime focus. Now that we’d built a community-backed readership, we dove into bringing you even more resources.
Running a mini-Product Hunt
We kicked off "The Product of the Week," which felt like running our own mini-Product Hunt within the newsletter. This small section turned out to be a fantastic way to spotlight the latest web3 products, helping you navigate the web3 landscape more effectively. Each week, our researcher sifts through 10-15 products to curate the top two that stand out—those we believe will smooth the onboarding process for web3 newbies. 🛠
Being on the edge of innovation
While most of our interactions are online, we didn't shy away from taking our efforts offline to hackathons and events. This keeps us close to web3 builders, always on the lookout for the next big thing and, of course, bringing you exclusive coverage directly from these events. ✍️
One of our standout coverages was at India Blockchain Week 2023. We organized discussions and partnered with Huddle01, Cosmos, and Circle to bring you insider insights, highlights from key panel discussions, and breakthrough talks—an exclusive scoop just for our readers!
Our content efforts and community knowledge-sharing have been our greatest strength and these efforts were supported by incredible companies like Huddle01, Aave, Celo, Arcana, and Biconomy, who believed in us!
✍️ Meet The Editorial Team
Time for some pats on the back! 🥳
Here's a quick shout-out to our women-led and run Spacekayak editorial team, the minds behind each issue. Week after week, we poured our hearts into making every edition a must-read for you, making sure you get your time’s worth!
A mother of two, pursuing her PhD, and our resident web3 geek. Jessie’s journey from a web3 novice to leading technical research and discussions has been nothing short of inspiring.
She understood the challenges of getting into web3 and was determined to simplify the basics for newbies. Our educational initiative, Web3 101: A Quest for Knowledge, was spearheaded by her efforts, making the basics of web3 accessible to everyone. She weaved in some magic into it, making the experience interactive and engaging by gamifying the learning process with NFT drops and milestone rewards for our readers and learners. ✨ Cheggit! 👇
Anchal has been leading the newsletter's operations and growth, introducing our readers to new and exciting protocols and expanding our community.
She's worked closely with me to strengthen our content strategy and strike partnerships, keeping our community informed about the latest happenings in the market.
I've been curating and editing the content for every edition, working with rich research materials and refining them into the articles you read each week. I’m the one putting the filter on content, sending you those warm-up emails in between, adjusting our editions to your taste.
Through all of this, The Product House has expanded our social reach with their social team led by Viren, bringing in more readers like you and ensuring we stay ahead of the game, transforming this into a strong community.
This dream team has brought us here: 100 weeks of Web3 content, 100 weeks of collaboration, and 32,000 of you! 💪
🗞 Top Editions, As Read and Loved by You
Out of these 100 editions, here are your top 5 picks—trust us, we loved writing them just as much as you loved reading them.
Once again, these 100 weeks have been a play of consistency, collaboration, and a commitment to creating rich content for you. I’m writing this on behalf of our entire team, who are still here, still going strong, and eagerly looking ahead to the future. 🤩
What does the future hold, you ask? Expect more thematic content, deeper dives that outlast both bear and bull markets—just like the last 100 editions, but even bigger and better. And to put it simply, we do this for you, for the love of web3, and for the community we've built together. 🤩
🤫 PS: If you've read all the way to the bottom, you're one of the few to know that we’re launching a super special edition soon, complete with an exclusive NFT as a token of our thanks! 👀
So, stay tuned, keep learning, and let’s make the next 100 editions even more spectacular! 🚀
🤝 An invitation to join us for the next 100 editions
We’re calling out protocols, web3 companies and chains to support the next 100 editions, and create amazing content with us and bring it to a wide reader base. Want to educate and lead the web3 conversations and spear through the cycles with us?
Hit us up! Drop us an email at gm@spacekayak.xyz, we’re open to chat! Let’s bridge the digital worlds, from web2 to web3, with high-quality content, quests, thematic on-chain plays and more!
