Thinking about launching an NFT project?
After years of being involved in Web3 communities, failed projects, successful communities, and everything in between, our advice is pretty simple:
Be authentic. Bring value. Treat people right. Know your numbers.
But there’s one mistake we see constantly:
People create the NFT first… and then try to find a community willing to buy it.
That’s backwards.
The strongest projects usually start with a real group of people who already share something—interests, relationships, goals, culture—and then create something that community genuinely wants.
That’s the approach we’ve taken with Alpha Origins.
And there’s another lesson that gets overlooked:
Activity is not community.
A Discord full of reactions, emojis, giveaways, and people typing “GM” every morning can look active without having any real connection underneath it.
Community is built through relationships.
People knowing each other.
People helping each other.
People showing up even when there’s nothing to buy.
People staying when the hype disappears.
If you’re launching an NFT project, build that first.
Then worry about the mint.
Recorded live at NFT.NYC 2026.
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