TLDR;
Builders Garden launched in late 2023 as a product studio powered by the crazy talent at urbe.eth. Over the past year, we’ve grown our team, crushed it with partners, and validated our agency model. Now, we’re doubling down on mini-apps—lightweight, viral products built for ecosystems like Farcaster and Worldcoin. Think rapid builds, instant distribution, and lots of fun. If you have ideas or needs for mini-apps, we’re open to collaborating and bringing your vision to life.
How It All Started
Builders Garden was born at the end of 2023. It all started with a simple idea: take the amazing talent from urbe.eth and do three things really well—win hackathons, build awesome products, and support companies who need cutting-edge solutions.
At its core, Builders Garden is all about speed. We’re not your typical slow-moving agency. We combine top-tier quality with insane velocity, and our track record at hackathons proves it. Whether it’s Farcaster Frames, AI agents, or account abstraction, we’re always pushing boundaries and staying ahead of the curve.
And with the urbe.eth community backing us, we’ve got a deep bench of skilled builders ready to jump in at a moment’s notice. What started with just me (limone.eth), frankc.eth, and orbulo.eth, has grown into an 10 person squad by mid-2024. Shoutout to the crew: bianc8.eth, 0xcaso, itsmide.eth, blackicon.eth, drone, stepome, and mctflurry. This squad is 🔥.
Year One Highlights
We kept a low profile in our first year, focusing on building relationships with companies who believed in us. And wow, it paid off. We teamed up with big names like XMTP, Akasha, Talent Protocol, Airstack, and Request Network. Most of these partnerships came from hackathons—our secret weapon for showcasing what we can do.
But we didn’t just consult. We also took the time to build our own products. Projects like Stringz (a mobile-native Farcaster client) and Drift (a stablecoin-native POS) helped us test ideas and show what we’re capable of.
Now, we’re going all in on internal product development. It’s risky, but we’re betting big because we believe in what we’re building.
The Big Bet: Mini-apps
Mini-apps are the future, and we’re planting our flag here. Why? Two reasons:
Easy Distribution: These apps integrate directly into platforms like Farcaster and World App, where users are already hanging out. No need to fight for attention—it’s built-in.
Rapid Builds: Mini-apps are lightweight and quick to build. We can go from idea to launch in record time without draining resources.
They’re also perfect for experimenting. Got a wild idea? Build a mini-app, test it out, and see what sticks.
In this tweet, some of the most successful mini-apps built on Farcaster so far (we shipped Farville recently and a Frames V2 starter as well!).
Yo by @stephancill
Farville by @limone_eth
Clankermon by @MatthewFoxAF
Stoke Fire by @noahwbragg
Farcade by @0xChuckstock and @0xBlackstock
Ponder by @ColinHJohnson and @benadamsky
...all on @warpcast_
Farville by @limone_eth
Clankermon by @MatthewFoxAF
Stoke Fire by @noahwbragg
Farcade by @0xChuckstock and @0xBlackstock
Ponder by @ColinHJohnson and @benadamsky
...all on @warpcast_
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Our Game Plan for Mini-apps
We’re keeping things simple but strategic. Here’s how we’re tackling this:
Tiny Teams: Three-person squads to stay agile and laser-focused.
Instant Monetization: Subscriptions, micropayments—mini-apps that pay for themselves from day one.
Built to Go Viral: Social features are a must. Think games, collaborations, and shareable moments.
Fun Factor: Whether it’s a utility or a game, it’ll be fun to use—like your favorite mobile game.
Our mini-apps will span a variety of use cases. The common thread? They’ll all be easy, fun, and super shareable.
Want to experiment with mini-apps?
The garden is just getting started 🌱.
If you or your company is exploring mini-apps or has specific ideas or needs, we’d love to collaborate! Whether it’s brainstorming, building, or consulting, we’re here to help bring your vision to life.
Let’s team up, create something impactful, and grow together. The garden is open, and we’re ready to build—just reach out at gm@builders.garden!
at /builders-garden we’re focused on building mini-apps mini-apps are a perfect fit for our development style - we’re builders, we love hackathons, and we ship fast /farville and /betttr are just the beginning need to build a frame? reply or send me a DC 🫡 https://paragraph.xyz/@builders-garden/mini-apps-1
Stoked for this! Will be following to feature some of your builds and might have some work for you too
awesome!
Love this!!!
This is amazing! We are looking into mini apps for Precog. Would love to implement it for pther categories whoch aren’t sports. Multi outcome markets is where our protocol shines the most!
BUILD BUILD BUILD 😝
Cultivating as always
builders gonna build 🤝🛠️🤝
gardeners gonna farm
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farming and building
How would you improve this page? Goal is to be able to send this to prospective onchain builders to answer the question "why frames?" After we get the messaging right, will invest some time in making it a proper marketing website. https://warpcast.notion.site/Why-Frames-18b6a6c0c101804da34bc143469883df
i want to turn our base and solana game (battle.fun) into a v2 frame we use privy, i don't think there's a simple way to do so?
@segall @horsefacts.eth couldn’t we use sign in with Farcaster to sign in to the the embedded privy wallet in the frame?
Yep! See the demo repo Privy created here: https://github.com/privy-io/privy-frames-v2-demo
Oooh did someone say v2 frame 👀 Do it!
Doing this in Footy App. Easy. Happy to share
An index of frames available or more examples would be nice! I think highlighting what the community has built would be nice. The page is too nitty gritty. I don’t want to hear about the features of how to build frames (at least at first). That can go into a docs section. I want to see the vision and how other community members have been creative with it.
Personally I would reorder the value props and put distribution at the top of that bulleted list Would also add testimonials. Listening to @chuckstock on @gmfarcaster I think they mentioned rolling out in several places including frames v2 and Telegram. Can also speak volumes to the quality of users
@dwr.eth I'll share a bit a story why frames were so important to me. Back when it launched I was writing my newsletter in Substack, then I saw the post that @colin made for paragraph and I switched 360 degree to Onchain creation. I integrated all my articles to Paragraph and because it could be accessed by frames, in one day I gained almost 100 subscribers for my newsletter. That's how important were frames and still are for my small success as a writer here.
We take care of the boring stuff, so you can focus on your app: - Authentication - Distribution - Notifications - Access to social graph - Wallet integration I would also add a screenshot of the "add frame" modal, with an arrow pointing to the "confirm" button that says "this is what happens when a user clicks": - You know their ID - You can send notifications - You can check their social graph - You can check if they hold a specific ERC-20 or ERC-721 - You can initiate unchain transactions - You can initiate farcaster actions like "like", "recast", "follow".
"You add one line of code. Frames take care of the rest."
animation + more motion
I’d move the Footy App to the center of the screen shot. More seriously, I’d refer to this as Frame Technology. Apps are built using Farcaster Frame Technology. https://warpcast.com/kmacb.eth/0xc2c60520
https://paragraph.xyz/@builders-garden/mini-apps#h-the-big-bet-mini-apps always helpful to see how your users are talking about it love the iterations you've made on the notion so far btw
A little more personal/story feel .... - something in the first sentence about what converting to a mini-app does.... get in front of 10,000 people native in FC with people who love using frames (or whatever---not my knowledge base) - a personal story from a good frame person here on FC on how it changed their reach/project.... tldr or someone saying, "my project was struggling to get people to leave FC and engage but when we made it a frame and people could stay in FC engagement was up and to the right (again, or whatever...)
Jinx!
Leading with metrics around how many users, transaction volume, etc leading frames get. Maybe a case study of a successful frame to explain the infeed discovery, install, notification, transaction flow. I don’t think mini apps are inherently interesting to developers.
@frankk, @orbulo and I launched /builders-garden in late 2023 as a product studio powered by the crazy talent at @urbe-eth. over the past year, we grew our team (@bianc8, @itsmide.eth, @0xcaso, @blackicon.eth, @drone, @stepome, @mctflurry), crushed it at hackathons, and validated our studio+agency model. now we’re doubling down on mini-apps—lightweight, viral products for ecosystems like farcaster and worldcoin if you need help building some, feel free to reach out 🫡 https://paragraph.xyz/@builders-garden/mini-apps
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mini-apps + AI agents will define the next wave of web3 innovation. the composability potential is mind-bending
Congrats you guys! If you need a product designer I would love to contribute to an onchain project.
Add select all option to apply to all seeds, when we want to use perk stuff
should be much faster now!
I saw
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