we'll do a little intro
alright folks so we are here for bay farcat i almost said base batches farcatcher batches day one this is the brainchild of jubjub over on farcaster and jubjub happens to be in australia i believe so he's actually asleep but we're here but he did all of the organization for this this is his idea he wanted to bring together for a week long focus on the builders around the farcaster ecosystem organized everything pulled together all the builders pulled together two workshops that are gonna be happening this week and jonathan will have you speak to that when you talk as well just to give us a little preview and then there will be another on thursday that will that one is gonna happen within our gm forecaster streamyard studio we're gonna figure that out we'll give you some specifics later on today that's gonna be tomorrow and then thursday we have two builders cashlessman and royal aid we're going to be doing workshops on setting up ai automation with royal aid and building on your own infrastructure and those are gonna be on farcaster spaces so we've got a lot going on this week it's gonna be a lot of fun but today to start us off we have five amazing builders from the farcaster ecosystem we have crystalinski with mini app sorry mini app i'm gonna keep doing that kenny with a poid h nikki sab with duke jonathan colton with the founder check and doctor deeks if he pops in we'll also it's supposed to be here to chat about like five different projects that he has going on so so we're gonna get rolling and what we're gonna kinda do here is we're gonna invite the builder to give us a you know breakdown of tell us what your project is what have you been building how does it connect with the farcaster ecosystem how's that been working for you and just tell us about anything about your project and then we'll take any questions that folks may have in the audience or anyone else on the stage that might have here so chris from vini app i'm gonna start with you welcome
hey guys hey good good monday good monday great to great to be here it's always wonderful to kinda see so many people on the the internet kinda jump into one space together so super stoked about forecast or batches and super stoked to kinda be the first one to kinda kick it off so happy to chat about vini so vini app itself is a a platform that allows anyone in the world regardless if you're a developer or just a an average person that's kind of looking to kind of build something and get some app onto the internet to use natural language to build a fully functional application within a few minutes it's totally set up on the web three stack so it makes use of all of these brand new primitives that kind of have never existed historically and really it's it's it's really as kind of as simple as can be you can kind of prompt your way into having an app in in in existence part of forecast or batches we now have a a thousand dollar prize pool justin ahn.eth has contributed an extra $250 to our kind of total prize pool where anyone that builds during this kind of the next five days can be eligible up to a thousand usdc for any app that's built using vini using either the just a pure vini stack or if you add in the empire builder with your berserker or divvy or
justin's quiddl or quiddie you're able to kind of create and kind of collect up to 1,000 usdc in prizes and so really you can imagine being anywhere in the world whether you're kind of walking on a treadmill or if you're getting a coffee or if you're ordering a glass of wine you can start prompting your your build and within a few minutes you'll have a fully functioning web application one really nice thing about vini is that there's a full leaderboard that that everyone can kinda see all the different apps that are being built and kind of one of the main things that we wanna focus on is kind of a couple core metrics one of them is just the users that are using your application so ideally your your apps are used globally by as many people as possible we wanna make sure that it's used by all sorts of people so we track the number of unique users using each of the applications each application on in this kind of vinathon is will require a token to be launched with it and so what's nice about the token is that then the the market can kinda contribute and kinda get involved as well and so the the market cap of the token of all of these base tokens is available for tracking and then the build building happens from the first to the fourth and then on the fifth we'll have judging where we can jump on either spaces or a or a live stream or kind of google hangouts call to chat with the builders and have them walk through their applications and we'll kind of award the thousand usdc prizes during that period in time so far we're at a thousand usdc if anyone in the audience or if there are anyone that would like to kind of match or increase the prize pool or have their kind of stack or technologies worked into vineyard as a skill we're totally up for that and we're we're more than happy to kind of be super extensible and work with as many partners as we can in the space the real goal here is just to kind of take the narrative that we've all been hearing that everyone should be building and for the kind of the 99.5% of people that historically either don't know how to code or more often than not it's not that you don't know how to code or can't code it's just that it takes a lot of time to kinda string all of these efforts together and so what we're able to do is that we're able to kind of really expand the prize pool and the reach of development and the web three space to everyone in the world and it doesn't have to be in just english it can be in any language so korean japanese mandarin portuguese etcetera etcetera etcetera we we have apps built from from turkey and from india it's really amazing to kinda see all of these people half the time if i kinda see if i see the prompts i i don't even know what it's saying i have to kinda go into google translate to say okay what what were they trying to build here and another thing that is really nice is that while you're building these applications whether it's your first application or if you're it's your kind of hundredth application you have the full support of our team you can reach out you can ask questions you can we can talk about gamification strategies tokenomics features functionalities bugs anything like that we're always here to kind of support you and all of the tokens that get launched 10% of the trading fees of the tokens actually roll into our main vini token and so there's this kind of canonical or umbrella token for the the vini platform and so that kind of binds everything together and kind of brings everything together so we're really looking forward to this week we think this is a fantastic program and we really really hope more people kind of just take it and kinda go about their day where they all they have to do is open up the vini app type in their prompt and within a few seconds they're gonna have a working application and what's nice about it is that it's a land and expand strategy so you don't have to build out every feature and functionality that you ever dreamed of all at once you can kinda start with a little nugget and say you know what i wanted a little game that reminded me of a card game that i was playing growing up or there's some sort of health tracker that i wanted to make or a expense tracker or a travel trip manager anything like that you start with something small and then as you start to use the application you can kinda go into viny and say you know what i'd like this to kind of be on this page or add this different piece of functionality and really their world and the kind of the build is your oyster so you can kind of grow it exactly how you see fit and now you have a a mark in something that's shareable in a mini app on on forecaster and then it's totally sense extensible into the web at large so you can use it on on the world platform on this which has kind of 20,000,000 wallets we have celo minipay support which has another 15,000,000 wallet access we'll have telegram support and then you also can just use it on the web directly so you can kinda share it on your ex account your instagram account or use it on youtube so really looking forward to this whole week really looking forward to seeing what people build and if anyone wants to join in on the sponsorship packages we're more than happy for that and thanks so much for your time feel free to kinda ask any questions
that's awesome i'm really excited i am definitely gonna try and build something i have something that i was trying to build at one point and kinda gave up on it so we're gonna see if i can make it happen in the app and adrienne has built a couple things i think on the app so what tips would you have as a builder adrienne for those who are participating this week
the it vini app i'm i've used it twice i think chris since you demoed it and it's really awesome like i i don't just just use it try it and if you guys get stuck ask chris or nick for support or help because they'll help out but it was it's so i i found it super intuitive so it's i don't know made it really easy from idea to prototype i have a quest question for chris if you wanna take one of course so part of the flow and like you said i liked how you described kind of the token how the token fits in and part of the flow is you you prompt people to launch a token before the app is built and the i think it's kinda described as like a you know fees from this token go to help support i really like that model i'm curious if you've gotten any like pushback or any kinda negative feedback for or expectations of people kind of like you know what would the token do for this model i i mean i personally liked it when i've used it twice i'm just curious if if there's any like thing i'm not seeing
yeah yeah totally you know what the the tokenomics is is really making use of this kind of this these new primitives that have never existed before so there are there are a number of different kind of vibe coding platforms and a lot of people actually will say like they'll see people building apps and they'll be like oh well they did that on cloud code or using codecs things like that and one thing that's good to know is that we actually with vini we sit on top of those kind of platforms as well so we are kind of you take the the bare bones of kind of like a cloud code or a codex and then you're layering on a ton of different kind of skill sets and kind of connections that you would have to kinda go provision all of these different api endpoints in these services set up your wallet and then eventually you kinda get to this yeah this idea of a token and one thing about vini is that it's not required that you use a token like if you want to use vini just as a standalone platform and don't have tokenomics in your application the the tokens are a requirement for this specific viniathon just because it helps us with the leaderboard and tracking and it allows the the market to play a a bit more of a participation in terms of helping us rank the applications themselves so it's not required but for the vidiathon application or kind of this this vidiathon event it is required the the tokens themselves what's nice about them adrienne as you're mentioning is that these tokens when they get launched they they generate trading fees as people buy and sell them and when those trading fees accumulate it actually flows into the wallet of the vini app itself so what's unique what what's really unique about vini is that every application that gets created gets a evm wallet associated with it and so that wallet is then used to kind of pay for the ai that's building the applications it helps pay for storage it helps pay for image generation it helps pay for basically everything and so as this token gets launched those fees that are accumulated as the token is traded on the decentralized market we we aggregate them into the wallet and so a lot of people for for some of your bills for instance they were able to kinda help pay for the the development of the application for those fees and so the fees are kind of a nice sweetener but the real purpose of the token is really to say again we we have these things these these web three primitives that really have not been explored at all like they're they just don't have this kinda lindy effect of what we're really used to for a lot of things so with tokens we're we're allowing people with this super easy build process we're allowing them to explore the world of kind of how can tokens be used in novel ways so some of the ways that we see tokens being used super commonly are for things like there's a there's a chess application that we have and in the chess game the person that each there are two people in each chess match and you bring a board to the game so the board is kind of like different colored tiles on the squares and actually in this chessmate game we have animations so for instance if a queen takes a pawn you have this kind of animation that shows up on the on the screen for both players of this queen kind of giving a huge smack down to this pawn and kind of like blowing it up in an animation and so that's all kind of flows through these these tokenomics where people use these tokenomics or the the token itself to purchase the kind of the chess set and then that changes the interaction and changes the gameplay within the the platform and so that's that's just one application but we see things like uchi which is an application that nick made where the token itself is is kind of a little bit of a tipping system and so that is at the heart of that application where the tokenomics actually turns it from being a something that is kind of a mock application into something that more people can kinda sink their teeth into so it's really up to the builder in terms of how they want to if they want to use tokenomics if they want to kinda work into this kind of vignathon but also just it's it it kind of opens opens the ability for people to be creative and kind of help the world see how these tokens can be used and sometimes it really kinda takes a different layer of thinking to be like okay well i have this new primitive that i didn't really have before and it really works seamlessly into the application and because it's on the base chain it's so light and it's so inexpensive to kinda transfer tokens and because forecasts are up the wallets and the kind of the ease of clanker tokenomics it's it's really kind of exciting to kinda see how people decide in which direction they want to go with the tokens themselves
love that great answer and we're running a little long already so shocking but that's okay okay yeah i did wanna point out that you you and nikolai came on gm forecaster a couple weeks ago and we have a video walking through how to create and you actually created a pac man game live on our on our show so if anyone wants a little bit more instruction wants to kinda see a little bit more about that you can take check that out on gm forecaster's youtube spotify or on the twitter feed even so go check that out
yeah the thanks so much the one thing i would just say is that it's just you know it it's so easy to get started and then you you really don't have to kind of carry yeah just go try don't don't carry the weight of the world on your shoulders just just type in your prompts and like oh i want the pac man game and then just start with that don't don't worry too too much about all the functionality because we do a lot but the biggest thing is kind of having that front door to just be almost like a spa where you walk in you're just like you know what i feel calm here i i don't feel like i'm being pressured to do anything it's just i just wanna see what's look take a look around see how this works and then you start to get a little bit of momentum people get involved in the industry and the kind of the community and you're like oh you know what i can do that i can do that i can do that and you're like oh shoot and a couple weeks later you have a fully functional app or an app like 2048 forecast of the age you're made where the entire forecast or feed was posting about it for a few hours
for a few hours
for a few hours every day yes for fifteen hours every day
hey andy warhol said yes said fifteen minutes don't expect more awesome thank you so much chris for being here with us today and also if you have any questions about vini app feel free to reach out to wanda linsky and i'm sure he will help you out there but just go try it out it's a lot of fun
thank you
thank you we're gonna move on to our next speaker kenny from poidh and if you can give me a better pronunciation for that i'd love that
yes yes that that is always everybody's first question so early on i used to always say p o i d h but lately i've just been saying poid that kinda developed over time so poid poid has been running for a while now i've been building poid in public on farcaster over the last three years poid is a social bounty platform and so the idea behind it is that you can crowdfund any outcome and that you can you can verify that it happened and you can do it all trustlessly 100% on chain so what makes poi different is there there have been lots of task platforms in the past in crypto you know places where you can go post and say hey i want somebody to do this thing and then you can pay the person if they do it but the the twist that we add to the equation is that when you create something i like to call these you're creating basically an ephemeral dao right where you start this bounty but as soon as other people put money into it suddenly there's there's this aspect of people rallying to make something happen which generally hasn't been possible before you you've you've had systems before where people will say oh you know take my word for it i'll throw some money down if this thing happens but boy you actually see this on chain so we're a fully on chain social bounty app and right now for for this week first off again thank you thank you thank you so much for that the grant last week the cef grant we're stoked on that the promotion that we're running that coincides with batches and that grant is part of that was an activity grant and so for anybody listening if you're involved in the farcaster ecosystem if you're running a product in the farcaster ecosystem the promo that we're doing is for the first 20 people who create a bounty and that bounty has to be tied in some way to farcaster or your project but just so you can try this out you can create a bounty with any amount or actually our minimum for a bounty is 0.001 eth so you will need $2 to get this started but if you create a bounty on point this week or at any time in the next before these 20 bounty boosts are gone we will add another $25 plus promote it everywhere just so people can get a feel for how the app works and what you can use it for right and we want you thinking about you know these these these bounties they don't have to drive specific real life actions but poit is a broad design space you can really incentivize anything with it so you definitely want to be thinking about that there's there's different things you could do like usage bounties if you have an app and you want to drive users you can do competitions for people doing specific things we've we've done a lot of clipping bounties lately even did one for gm farcaster
bounties to summarize your project or summarize what you do on forecasts or initiatives that you lead or even irl guerilla marketing activities putting up stickers putting up posters we've done bounties like that for qr coin putting up stickers all around the world or for ethereum one of my favorites ever was the dude from farcaster he put up an ethereum for financial infrastructure poster run wall street and i love that one that was super cool just to see how you can have and that was crowdfunded through like 10 different people for $200 so it's cool to see how people online can rally and nudge things into real life that's the spirit of poid and the types of things that we would like to see happen and then one other call out you know the big thing that we're pushing this week we're live on ethereum mainnet now we've done all the tests to make sure the contract's looking good so if you're thinking about creating a bounty we would love to see that bounty created on mainnet just because you know that's that's another big focus for this week but yeah thank you for the space and we'd love to take any questions
love this you know i'd like to step back a little bit and just kinda quickly ask like where did this concept come from how did you get started and what have been the most interesting bounties that you've seen
yeah the concepts came from it was years of ideating on this sort of stuff i am a big governance nerd a down nerd when i first heard about crypto that was the thing that really caught my eye it was like oh how can you use this to create online communities it was also something that originally caught the eye of the first smart contract creators we all know that ethereum when it came out one of the first things was the dao it was this thought process around how can humans use this new programmable money to make things happen in real life and so this came out of it was like pandemic era and i was kind of thinking of different ways to crowdfund for public goods crowdfund for health care systems and things like that and i was doing a lot of ideating and the fundamental problem was how can you have how can you have permissionless crowdfunding where anybody can put in funds but then you can also have permissionless claims right where anybody can try to claim the money and there's a lot of game theoretical design processes around like oh well if somebody can put in a permissionless claim and there's permissionless trustless voting they could claim and then vote to take the money themselves if they had control of the pot basically i took this down to well if you could have one specific thing if it was a dao for one specific thing that makes it a it gives it less attack surface area right then you could have these people who put in money vote on that one specific thing that happened in general i think there's a lot of governance failures when you have to vote on subjective things and for big broad goals but overall people on the internet are pretty good at agreeing on did this one specific thing happen in my opinion especially people that have put money up for that thing to happen because they have interest in it so that's the backstory and the broader mission behind it and why i wanted to build it some of the cooler things that have happened obviously the big one that was made possible by farcaster the haberdashery was the kickflip world record we crowdfunded $30,000 all basically within the farcaster ecosystem and then dave bichinski broke the world record for kickflips in one minute that was really the one where like i'd been building poid for a while and i'd talked for a long time about the potential for people to crowdfund to make amazing things happen but that's what really made it crystal clear that we had something special and that we could impact the world in big ways so that bounty that's the one we hang our hat on and i've written a lot about some of the other ones if you go check out my profile i have a new article i posted called the femoral dao machine and that runs through 10 of my favorite crowdfunded poid bounties what we've accomplished also one big failure because you know no tooling is perfect so you can check that out if you like and you wanna learn a little bit more but yeah that's the story
there awesome thank you so much kenny and everyone go check out all the bounties that are gonna be going up this week with the bonus so get in there you can chance to to win some too so very cool adrienne did you have any questions for kenny before i let him go and we move on
nope that was
great thank you thank you
we we love poid yep yeah
that was great we love poid and i'm i'm bummed we know how to pronounce it now because it's more fun when we just try to guess p o i d h yeah yeah still might say it that way that was awesome thanks so much kenny love what you've been building and love watching the kick flip one was just absolutely amazing and i loved that so much that was a lot of fun a fun moment
nick kenny is and by the way kenny just kudos to you you really are kind of the epitome of building in public on farcaster it's been
absolutely absolutely
i mean i i wouldn't say i i'd say you all are you were the first ones but i appreciate that question
okay we're passing the flowers we talk a lot
we do a lot of yapping alright
let's keep moving on then alright so you're gonna give us the overview on juke
i am yeah so thank you first of all for
the floor
is yours and sorry for the technical difficulties we'll blame next
yeah it's not your fault it's elon's fault
so never happens on broadcaster spaces is all i'm saying
not once never happens on juke either yeah so first of all appreciate you guys for for hosting this and having me up really cool to hear everyone's projects and excited to to talk about juke so the story behind juke was one of just necessity and desire i guess i tweeted or sorry i casted about wanting to have native audio spaces i missed tavern from back in the day like when i first joined farcaster tavern was huge there was like farcaster audio and there was far house and and all these sort of attempts to bring audio to farcaster but they all had sort of their own caveats and pitfalls especially within the mini app context there was a lot of caveats there namely the fact that if you left the space or like closed you know soft close the app you would lose access if your screen went dark you would lose access to the audio and things like that so i felt like a native experience was necessary there seems to be some demand for it across the network so i was like i'll just build it so i built it in like a week and i published it which you can still download the the app now as a open source broadcaster client so it's a mid native broadcaster client that is audio focused now i did this as sort of a a poke to and i think others were were sorry starting to poke rish and the new farcaster team at the time to try to get real native audio spaces on farcaster so that was always the goal was to just have a way to to speak publicly on on the network and it and it you know i'm not gonna take credit for the fact that it that it happened there were there were several others that were also doing audio focused things and i think all of that kind of converged and then rich reached out to me and several others and said hey would you guys like is it gonna kill you if we if we just add it that natively and i was like no it would actually make me super happy if you did and and we've seen that now so so forecaster has spaces natively so why didn't i just quit making juke and working on it well first of all i feel that it's really important to have sort of a baseline forecaster client that's open source that's mobile native and can be easily sort of jumped onto developed with claude or or whatever your preferred llm and harnesses know if you point your llm at my open source repo which i'll post the link in a second it should be able to pick it up and you could build your own broadcaster client very simply and you'll have some of the audio features the second thing is there are other features on juke that are not on farcaster and don't even exist on farcaster spaces like voice notes so you can post a voice note directly to the feed if it's viewed on juke natively it sort of comes up in the feed if it's viewed on any other client it comes up as a mini app which you can open and listen to that voice note along with the voice notes of others we also support recording spaces and we recently launched an sdk which is being used now by zala who i think was in the was in the audience recently but and a couple of other people are are working on integrating so you can actually integrate audio spaces that are native to farcaster directly into your website or app or whatever you wanna do there's also the capability now as we've seen like cassie has basically made it unified across quorum her her native forecaster app and the forecaster sort of monolith app so it is possible to sort of sync or unify the the audio spaces so i'm i'm working on that as well for for juke so that would also enable the same things like recording the sdk integration and things like that natively i think my goal is not to compete with farcast or try to do anything that's like like this is truly a a passion project for me it's a side project that i just feel passionate about lol so you know as farcaster releases new features i'll probably add them in as i come up with new stuff i'll add them in and maybe maybe we'll see them unified across other other clients right now the app supports many apps snaps and of course the you know slew of other protocol native features like channels etcetera the one thing it doesn't support at the moment is crypto so there's no wallet integration on juke at the moment that may change and i wanna be careful about how i word this that may change to support things like mini apps i'm not going to add wallet to launch token or anything like that i have no plans for a token for juke it's just a fun project i have no desire to take on that level of smoke ever again unless it's very very worth it if we had like a ton of users or something perhaps but at the moment it's just for fun and honestly i end up using it a lot just for my personal preference because it has like a gif keyboard and things like that things that i wanted to see in farcaster's monolithic app that aren't there i can build into mine and so can you if you just fork the repo and do your thing so that's you
that's incredible it's like totally the personification of like build build what you wanna see in the world
exactly
great great great story nikki are you looking for contributors
yeah absolutely so zal has been super super helpful like he helped me completely test the sdk from end to end and obviously there's an open source repo but i'm also happy to let people jump into the the nightly builds and things like that if you have ideas feedback questions concerns you wanna build your own client on top of it whatever you wanna do i'm completely flexible and open to all that so reach out
alright i'm gonna test am i back can you
hear me
welcome oh yeah great yeah thanks elon thanks for letting me back it's really fun too when you know you can't leave to even like try and leave and come back because everything will go away so nikki that was fantastic love that it also ended up being something that pushed for that pushed the team to put it in natively so thank you for that amazing anything else that you want to leave us with nikki before we move on to jonathan
and then i'll just say thanks again for for having me up there's still a massive opportunity to build on varchaster i think the sentiment obviously shifted with the change in ownership but the primitives the tooling like even if you're just a vibe coder is massive and i think it shouldn't be ignored especially as we see the sort of closed loop centralization of the of the other platforms it's it's still very very viable and continues to improve so don't don't give up on forecaster
love it and you've been you've been all along like one of the big supporters but also giving very honest feedback along the way so appreciate that and i know the team does as well awesome alright we're gonna move on to jonathan colton and doctor deeks i see you down there in the audience i did send you an invite to come up to the stage and you'll be we'll be chatting with you after this so look for that jonathan colton welcome to farcaster batches
thank you thank you just doing a sound check because i'm outside i wanna make sure my sound is okay
you're good you're good we hear you loud and clear so tell me a little bit about foundercheck and what you've been building so
founder check was a labor of love it started last year when i published the one of this should be from this hard don't eff it up and i published it as a google doc and i shared it with the founder channel on forecaster that was v one and it was a slightly embarrassing version which i thought was good because if you're not a little embarrassed then you're probably doing it wrong and then i released v2 i was at farcon base camp talking to builders for months and then you know the book sat and it percolated in my head then earlier this year when we all figured out we could do cool things with agents i started doing founder
gtm pain research on reddit and product hunt using a combination of agents and building sort of a corpus a knowledge base in that space and my hypothesis was what if lean validation can be done by agents could they discover signals faster than than the founders who need it and after like thinking about this research i was like alright let me let me try and build a mini app so i did it on replit it started to work and i was excited but i needed an audience right away so i rebuilt it in with the farcaster building agent and it was super fast it was a way better version it had the built in wallet my social graph attached people know me they know i wrote these versions to distribution is hard they probably talked to me at some event so i had like you know some trust and credibility in the community on this topic and then and then i launched it and what i really wanted to know was how well people were doing and so i really just paid attention to the analytics the back end of the tool and the data it was collecting because again i was getting data from users and how well they are performing in each pillar of of founder check and so over time that data helped me create interventions where people were performing poorly that eventually became just main features so i wanna pause there because i'm i'm sure i'm seeing all sorts of stuff go ahead
yeah yeah because i well and one of the things i wanted to ask you about is tomorrow you're gonna do a workshop and what do you like so what is the goal of that like who should tap in what's the like sort of plan for that just so we can give that a little bit of promo here and then i wanna ask you about fotocaster as well
sure sure appreciate that process so tomorrow's workshop i'm gonna get into it deeper like you know the user pain the inspiration real quick i'll take you through all of that and then we'll move on to like a live workshop where we can select one idea and run it through foundercheck live and you can see it and depending on who can participate via the streamyard setup you have prod and adrienne then we can like play with it live and people can see the reveal of the score we might do a quick revision to see how the score improves there's a whole side to founder check that is three duo lingo for builders kind of thinking where builders come in they use finalcheck and they improve their score i did a section with zal last week on friday and his score jumped 3.3 points out of 10 which was one of the top point jobs in you know since i've been measuring that so a potential outcome is that founders and builders who use foundercheck are gonna improve their ability to communicate the idea clearly enough to people so people can understand it and replicate it
very cool so if if there are folks who are interested in you know working through that founder check process with you tomorrow during the workshop should they reach out or add a comment reply somewhere just to let you know
yeah they can send me a dm or you a dm and we can you know just pick one of them and have them come up we can do it live which i think is always the most most revealing version of this
awesome love that alright very cool so let's also while we have you here just talk quickly about fotocaster because that has been popping off and that launched a couple weeks ago actually almost about a month ago i think it is now so can you give us just a little what is fotocaster and how did that come about
so fotocaster was a a a byproduct of eric well you know everybody knows him as eric s or eric's eric and i you know complaining in private and maybe in public a little bit about you know minting your work and what kind of sovereignty artists have when they do that right and everybody remembers rodeo pretty well i mean i think we were giving up 50% of a sale to rodeo and you had no sovereignty over additions or you know one of ones it was like a one shot model and it worked great we loved it i used the hell out of it i minted a 143 nfts and i had over a thousand collectors but eric and i always felt something was missing and so you know with rodeo gone the human desire to create and also to collect which are really too strong human drives were kinda absent on the timeline and eric and i you know continue the conversation three weeks into building soundercheck i begged eric i was like it's time we gotta we gotta build photo caster and you have to use the building agent because it's amazing and that's when the projects really started to come to life eric was the architect you know he has the direct access to the building agent and we just work together every day for hours trying to make that thing work and there's been over 6,000 collects in the last let's say 30 and it's it's not expensive it's you know sort of a joyful way to collect art that you like it's mostly photography and the big idea behind all of it was was maximum artist sovereignty where they keep a 100% of their profi proceeds and then the platform takes like a penny on each sale which we're gonna have to change just to make it self sustaining over time but we wanted to give the artist maximum revenue in all of their sales
love that and we love seeing there's been so much like fun photography and art on the timeline now because of it so really appreciate what you guys have been building adrienne before we let jonathan go and move on to doctor deeks any questions
i don't have any specific questions i just like really appreciate the theme that has been running through all these speakers of batches which is like build the thing that you wanna see it's like you know the most powerful powerful thing to do and i love love to see it
awesome
alright jonathan we will hear more from you tomorrow during the workshop so if you guys are interested in that just dc jonathan tag us and we will make sure we are able to interact with you live tomorrow amazing alright last but certainly not least we have doctor deeks who has made it to
the
stage and you have a number of projects so
i
don't know where you wanna start because there's like a list of like four different things here ghostwriter email remittance pro crafter two and journey through time so where do you wanna start and tell us a little bit about how you got building on farmaster
alright i really don't know where to start either but ultimately i started building on farcaster because i'm not too big of a fan of social media to be honest i don't really participate in social media or anything but farcaster wasn't just a social media platform to me it was a collective of individuals that want to grow and produce and continuously evolve within their lives and incorporate aspects that could help other individuals grow in their lives as well with mini apps or whatever the case may be
when it comes to the projects i know i don't have too much time but
let's start with email remittance pro that was actually started for the synthesis hack hackathon and yeah that was a journey it was a ten day sprint where it's supposed to be fully you know autonomous agent created so i didn't write a single line of code but for the first seven days i was having technical issues so i really only had three days to make it and i was able to actually get it produced for a demo but what it is it's basically no matter who it is across the globe if you have their email you can send them crypto with just their email the email is the identity layer i'm a big prospector of control and availability and options so it's not required that you have to have either yourself or the recipient verify themselves to be human or verify their identity but with that comes its own risk so if you there's two different modes that go with that project there's like a business model and then a personal model and either way you kinda look at it they're set up a little bit differently but kinda the same thing if it's a personal you would pull up the app put your email in connect your wallet send the funds over to the escrow wallet and then the escrow wallet would just hold the funds until the recipient clicks the claim link in their email and then they have options to choose how they wanna receive it they can either receive the token that was sent they can choose a different token on monad chain base chain and celo and they even can choose to exchange it for a gift card and any exchange swap or bridging is all done on the back end so for the user or recipient that is they just click select instantaneous payout and the whole concept of this was
the businesses that do currently offer money transfers like wells fargo for instance they scrape the money off these individuals that are typically sending money to their families abroad
and the whole business model behind it is 1.5% flat fee as soon as someone sends money in we take 1.5 for the platform and then everything else is all on the user or the sender everything like i said instantaneous payouts it's already been proven on chain i have transactions of proof and i have video that shows that it does work currently i am in the process of redeploying it on render and cloudfare for the front end the back end and the front end
but
that's super interesting especially the trade it in for a gift card for somebody who may not have a wallet may not wanna deal with that but it also creates opportunity for the sender to be able to not have to go out and buy a gift card or go you know use traditional methods so if they're if they're crypto native so that's really an interesting interesting concept for sure and i'm sure we're gonna see you know more approaches to that but that feels super early alright where do you wanna move on to next
we've
got three more
i didn't anticipate to do all of them but we we
don't have to do all of them we don't have to do all of them it's completely up to you i wasn't sure where you where you wanted to go with this so
no i'm sorry
i i
was a little unprepared you know my phone was overheating and i it's been it's been a chaotic morning it's
a monday yeah
we'll go with we'll do crafters and that is basically
it's a word combination game everyone starts with a base set of words water earth air fire and then from that you have like a little playground draggable area where you can combine two words ai will combine them into a word and then that word is documented in the database first time a word is created that's never been created before you have an option to mint megamind nft which basically says you're the creator of this word and then anytime it's made after that no one will get that nft you know it's yours you are the creator of that one but the cool thing about crafters i'm actually in the middle of trying to expand it a little bit more for agent driven features you know so basically there's like four additional features i'm i'm adding in where the mega mines can be basically poached you know it's like a mega mine heist and rival poaching and then you can rent out agents for brainpower so they can continuously try to make words on your behalf there's daily challenges no check ins on chain leaderboards and all of that but we're also incorporating a dynamic celestial weather system so that the scenery will change based off of certain crafts that were made or agents' actions
a whole whole lot of stuff there
so is this a mini app or is it like how is it like how do you play it
yeah it's a mini app or a web app yep
okay cool
i have like a beta in as a mini app already but as you know i have a a lot to try to work on so it's kinda
hard to yeah
you know keep it up
really cool there's a lot of word games that have popped up on farcaster shout out word today adrian's sporting that in her pfp so and i think they they do pretty well because there's just a lot of people who will you know dive in and and play those kind of games so and adding the agentic layer will definitely drive some interest for sure
alright we are running a little short on time but i wanna give you you know one more any any other of these projects that you wanna talk about or any other like things that you have going on that we wanna highlight before we wrap up here
i'll just touch on ghostwriter really quick awesome community driven storytelling game where it's like a mad lib style you have to contribute a word into any active stories to in order to get a creator credit which then you can create your own story based off of a prompt and a category three different lengths of stories you can choose from and when you submit a word you get an nft that's hidden has hidden metadata so you can't see anything and then at the end of it the story itself is revealed so once the story completes it'll automatically reveal and you'll be able to see what you and anyone else that contributed to it what the story actually is so it's like a whole mysterious factor to it and then if you create one you also get an nft but most of these things that i'm working on they are gonna tie into something bigger in the long run you know all the nfts or aspects that are implemented in these they will be able to be utilized in the end for more than just an nft and more than just a symbolic sign of participation
and that's the like really cool part about building on chain is that you can build other things down the road based on you know previous projects or bringing things together or even better is other people tapping into what you've built so and creating rewards or something so very cool
alright thank
you so much sharyn
it's been really cool to hear what you're building we are going to wrap up here anything else you wanted to add before we close this out
no i think it was good i great i know i was kind of all over the place today but yeah
it was good it was good i mean you have a lot a lot of different projects really interesting because i wasn't from too familiar so really cool glad jubjub brought you on board here this has been a lot of fun i wanna thank all the builders please go check all of them out don't forget vinnyap is running a whole contest this week if you build on viney app you have a chance to win i think now it's up to a thousand usdc it's growing every day so go check that out with one p o i d h also known as poid from kenny and kenny has opportunity for those who want to launch their own bounty that has some kind of integration on farcaster or clankr and you will get a potential boost so check that opportunity out this week juke from nikki sapp if you haven't tried it out go take a peek either at the mini app or the client itself jonathan colton with foundercheck first of all go check out fotocaster really cool mini app lots of amazing art being minted on there but also tomorrow we will have the foundercheck workshop so if you have an idea or you have a project that you wanna run through foundertrak make sure you reach out to him today so we can get you lined up and then last but not least doctor deeks with multiple projects a lot of fun to hear about all of those this has been really amazing tomorrow we have the founder tech workshop and then on wednesday we have another group of amazing builders who will be with us so make sure you check back here 1pm wednesday and adrienne anything that you wanna add before we sign off today
this was super fun i'll just add that the this is farcaster batches we're doing it all week and i think a lot of the purpose we're highlighting a lot of builders but i remember one of the first conversations we've had with jubjub