Hello there, and welcome to the 17th edition of Base Directory's newsletter.
Every weekday, I'll send you a concise email highlighting everything you need to know about an onchain product built on Base, including my thoughts on it and how you can get started using it.
Today's spotlight is on Bonfire, a product that provides creators with the tools to create custom experiences for their audience onchain.
How Bonfire Works:
Bonfire aims to be the central hub for creators in web3 to connect, grow, and monetize their audience without having to write a line of code. Here are some of the features Bonfire offers to enable this:
Websites: Creators can use Bonfire's drag-and-drop visual builder to create a website that serves as their portfolio or a landing page showcasing their value offering like art pieces available for mint. They offer a selection of ready-made templates that users can choose from when building a site and created sites can be linked to a custom domain.
Social Feed: Bonfire offers a dedicated social feed for creators where they can share content and updates with their audience on the go. If you launch a new drop or have a special announcement to share with your fans, you can post it to your feed, notify users via email to check it out, and they can engage by dropping their comments and reactions.
Content: With Bonfire, you can upload audio and video content onchain either to sell as a digital good or use in your websites and social feed. You can also run livestreams.
Passes: Passes are unique tickets that offer your audience access to your livestreams, posts on your feed, content, or even a website page that you've locked/gated. You can create passes from your Bonfire profile, set a price, and each time someone collects a piece, they'll get access to the previously locked experience.
Integrations: Bonfire supports integrations with Zora, Thirdweb, Pods, and others, allowing creators to import their collections from these platforms for use on Bonfire.
I feel like I only scratched the surface of what can be done with Bonfire while testing it out. Being the central hub for creators in web3 might sound like a lofty ambition but it's one Bonfire is definitely making good on.
The user experience throughout is seamless. They support social login for people new to crypto and also offer credit-card checkouts, making it easy for creators to sell to everyone.
You can keep up with updates from the Bonfire team via their X (fka Twitter) profile and check out the product here.
Existing accounts have already migrated to the new system, so not much changes - just prettier UI, and a faster & more reliable sign in experience
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I've been writing this newsletter for only three weeks and I feel even more optimistic about the utility consumer apps built onchain can drive than when I first started. Billions will come onchain!
Billions will come onchain.
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Thanks for reading through! See you on Monday.
