#37: Olly Wilson, Co-Founder @ SimpleHash | Building a multichain NFT API that’s used by projects such as Phantom & Rainbow

Web3 Talks: Stories & Tips from the Builders

SimpleHash is one of the most powerful NFT APIs in the space. It's being used by wallets, portfolio trackers & web3 games. Olly Wilson came to the pod to share the backstage perspective of their ultra fast growth.

Timestamps:

0:38

What is SimpleHash

1:39

How their Co-Founder got tired of building back-end infra for an NFT project and decided to start SimpleHash

2:47

Why is indexing NFTs across many chains so hard?

5:25

How being in YC helped them to acquire first users

6:22

Why they ditched the idea of an NFT search tool

7:10

What's their process for supporting and integrating new chains

9:34

Why do they go very deep into NFT data and specialize to compete with other NFT APIs

11:40

How do they solve the corrupted media problems in NFTs

12:37

How they designed the NFT Spam Score to protect wallets from unsolicited and scammy airdrops

15:11

What are their most important metrics?

16:20

Why is everyone on their team involved in customer support, and how do they decide what features to implement?

19:20

Why Olly likes the OG NFT projects

20:50

Olly's thoughts on utility NFTs

21:55

Why joining YC was worth it

23:35

What growth & tech challenges do they see on the horizon?

24:49

How do they take care of their business's infra side, and why is 850M indexed NFTs still a small dataset?

26:00

What would he build if he weren't building SimpleHash?

26:20

Why removing the scams would be the target of his magic wand?

27:00

Why Ethereum Merge is the most mind-blowing project that Olly has seen

28:26

Why he likes the crypto twitter's dark humor

29:20

Where to find out more about SimpleHash