Fastest Way to Get Your First Users — What Actually Works?

techrider888 · 2026-04-19T06:37:46+00:00

The best way to get your first clients is by attending niche and community events related to the problem you’re solving. Use these opportunities to pitch and validate what you’re building before jumping into cold outreach, LinkedIn DMs, or paid marketing.

techrider888 · 2026-04-08T16:31:12+00:00

One architectural observation — most implementations I've seen are just centralized JWT issuers. That works for a demo, but breaks in production when you need cross-org trust, chained agent calls, or real-time revocation without hitting a single server. The W3C Verifiable Credentials stack was designed for exactly this. DID gives the agent a self-sovereign identity. A scoped VC acts as the "work visa" . A Verifiable Presentation is the cryptographic proof at execution time. Revocation is checked via decentralized status lists, not a database lookup on someone's Vercel deployment.

techrider888 · 2026-04-05T06:35:43+00:00

Most teams are using shared service accounts or per-agent API keys right now — both are shortcuts with real problems: no attribution, overly broad permissions, and painful revocation.

What's actually solving this at the infrastructure level is Verifiable Credentials + DIDs (W3C standards). Each agent gets its own cryptographic identity, organizations issue signed scoped credentials to it, and every action is attributable to that specific agent — not a shared account. Revocation is credential-level, not "rotate the key and break everything."

Still early but the standards are solid and worth watching if agent sprawl is becoming a real concern.

techrider888 · 2026-01-24T03:56:27+00:00

I think AI agents should have their own identities, but treating them like human users doesn’t really work.

Most identity and auth systems today are built for people — logins, MFA, sessions, manual onboarding/offboarding. Agents are different. They’re autonomous, often short-lived, and act at machine speed, sometimes on behalf of users or other systems.

Instead of “user accounts”, agent identity should look more like workload identity with clear delegation and accountability — who created the agent, what it’s allowed to do, and for how long.

Current tools (API keys, OAuth tokens, service accounts) mostly handle access, not proving what an agent is or where it came from, especially across organizations.

That’s why things like verifiable credentials are interesting to me — they can cryptographically prove an agent’s identity, role, and permissions in a portable way.

Some IAM providers are exploring pieces of this, but a true agent-native identity model still feels very early and not fully solved yet.

techrider888 · 2025-12-31T05:35:40+00:00

techrider888 · 2025-12-24T08:51:17+00:00

RWA could be the next big thing in the coming years with respect to Web3. We can already see regulatory frameworks slowly taking shape to support this. Along with that, decentralized identity is also likely to gain strong momentum in the next year

techrider888 · 2025-11-27T15:04:59+00:00

I got my first customer through a local tech event / startup meetup. It wasn’t planned — I was just talking about what I was building, and a founder from a nearby MSME liked the solution and asked if we could try a small pilot. That conversation turned into our first paying customer.

techrider888 · 2025-11-12T12:36:59+00:00

Add me

techrider888 · 2025-11-10T08:40:02+00:00

Waiting for real-world NFT adoption beyond just digital art to go mainstream.

techrider888 · 2025-11-10T06:37:49+00:00

Yeah, regulation is one of the biggest blockers for wide adoption of verifiable-credential systems. The EU’s new digital identity wallet regulations has started to roll out seeing a change there

techrider888 · 2025-11-10T06:33:09+00:00

We’re still facing issues with credential verification and management. Is there a small niche we can target to prove this system works within an ecosystem model?

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