Twitter: @FellowApes
Discord: discord.gg/fellowapes
Website: fellowapes.com
Greetings Chiefs!
We meeting again, and from the looks of it, we are going to meet a lot of times in the next 2 days. Just 2 write-ups ago, I said that one thing that is missing from the Solana NFT Marketplace is a good hyped-up “APE” project. And the mint gods have been very kind to me lately, so they send us the 2nd such project in 2 days.
Let’s talk about Fellow Apes
Fellow Apes going on mint on the 8th of April, one of the most popular projects of this month and one of the reasons why its discord server has over 26,000 members. But who are they exactly? From the looks of it, Fellow Apes is coming out as a community-associated project with nothing refreshing in the roadmap except for great hype and good art.
The basic information about the project is as follows:
Supply: 4444 | 1500 OGs- guaranteed mint | 3500 WLs- FCFS
Cost: 1.5 Sol
Time: 9 pm UTC (OG) | 10 pm UTC (WL) | 11 pm UTC (Public)
Let’s go into detail now about why they are getting this hype:
Team: The 2 individuals to look out for in the team are Bernard, also known as Cozy the Caller in the space (@cozypront) taking the role of marketing manager, and Nayman.sol (@berkaiii0) one of the OG’s in Turtles DAO with the role of Social Media Manager. I have mentioned these two names because they have a lot of influence in the Solana NFT Marketplace considering their active engagement on Twitter and their following. Now, when we see such big names associated with the project we get excited and the project becomes the talk of the town. That is what I think happened in the case of “Fellow Apes”. Because if we remove these two names, I don’t see a lot of credibility in the team and an example of that is the faq section that they have posted in their discord and on their website, will leave this to you to decide for yourself now.
Also, I have not just come here and started pointing out the grammatical mistakes they made in writing the most important information about the project, I tried asking for a MOD’s attention 3 times in their discord but I guess he was busy.
Roadmap: The one thing I found in their roadmap in abundance is disappointment. I don’t want to be sound harsh or bearish, but there is nothing that I found is worth minting for or even worth reading for if we remove the grammatical mistakes. This is what their roadmap looks like:
If you want people to get excited about your “Roadmap V2" you need to give them enough reasons in the “Roadmap V1”. And clearly, there are no such reasons.
Art: This is one of the good things about them keeping their hype aside. Their art looks good and has that pfp vibes. Apart from the art of the NFT, their website looks cool too and it is evident that they have put in a lot of work making their website.
Engagement: This is what “Fellow Apes” is all about I would say. They have over 26000 members in their discord. They have members like ChartFuMonkey (@ChartFuMonkey), SOL Playboy (@SOLPlayboy), Saint Eclectic (@sainteclectic), SOLbuckets (@SOLbuckets). The result of such big members? is they are clocking an average of 1000+ reactions to their latest announcements. If we talk about their Twitter, they have over 11,000 followers there, but most of their Twitter is about accounts shilling them by offering WL spots. Not to forget their OG tokens (guaranteed mint) are going for over 2 sol on the fff token market and the WL tokens (FCFS) are also going for around 1.3 sol.
So would give them 10/10 on marketing.
To conclude, As a minter, I won’t be looking to hold this project especially after reading their current roadmap and witnessing the unprofessional way with which they have taken things for granted.
The only thing worth minting for in this project is the people associated with the project, and the presence they have created in the space, this won’t die out easily. They have a massive following across the board and they are getting one of the best engagements I have seen, this presents a good flip opportunity. But I won’t bet on a mid-long term holding based on those parameters myself because even a project like Cets on Creck went to 1.3 sol after listing, and it was the community and the team that turned the tables for them. So, it would be better to first experience the strength of the community.
One risk involved in minting the project is that OG’s will get a chance to mint 2 NFTs, and the OG’s tokens are already going for above 2 sol, so those 1500 members will be in profits anyhow, and it won’t take them long to dump their holdings on the public.
I would rate the project 2/5, just based on the fact that their art is good and it has great hype. However, I don’t take hype as a parameter in measuring the credibility of a project.
As always DYOR.
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