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Key Takeaways
Soliciting quality feedback is invaluable.
People want to push things forward.
Build in public 💪
Y'all know I love board games.
How cooperative board games disrupt communications in ways similar to crypto protocols to create fun puzzles and Nerd's top 6 co-op board games.
I gave you my top 6 co-op games before, and I've been growing the /tabletop channel since ~June 2023. We just passed 50k 🤯 over the weekend and are continuing to grow!
The question for me as channel lead, then, is wtf do I do with all these people? I've been wrestling with the question since before ETHDenver, back when we were but a tiny 36k 🤣🤣
lovely chat with @cameron at the /ethdenver meetup last night https://i.imgur.com/mIr3zmv.png
So I asked the channel. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This is the secret sauce. Do stuff, get feedback on it, and iterate. The ABCs of building:
Always
Be
seeking feedback about what you're Creating
Trying this myself, DEGEN tips for 𝕓𝕣𝕦𝕥𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕪 𝕙𝕠𝕟𝕖𝕤𝕥, 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 feedback what don't you like about /tabletop? where does it fall short? what would you change? what would you want to collect? tips for thoughtful, specific, non-spam feedback https://i.imgur.com/vFxXu3M.png https://warpcast.com/0xdesigner/0x8f90e43e
The feedback was invaluable. For ~$500 in DEGEN tips, I got a specific feature list of what the /tabletop community wants.
find other casters + coordinate together to play games
strategy threads
how-to-play threads
minority recognition
organization
As someone who's played online board games before, getting people to commit and show up to events is difficult, even if you know all the folks beforehand.
So the most valuable product is something that smooths out the UX issues of coordinating people in both (digital) space and time.
The internet robs us of moments, it's Everything Everywhere, All At Once. Very much an open mouth, insert firehose situation.
Board games give us defined start and end points; rules define the protocol that we sit down and abide by - this is what we value (points), here's how to get them, and there are both winners and losers at the end (even for co-ops!) I want to enable casters to have more moments together over board games!
The, as of now, unnamed /tabletop Quasi-Client in the works will smooth out the coordination issues of organizing games and enable organization of user stats and logins by Farcaster fids. One login, one dataset across platforms, as only web3 and self-sovereign accounts can do.
These are early days but looking forward to seeing what we can do with this quasi client of ours (s/o @cameron for the term). Quasi-clients are micro-apps that will be intimately useful to specific users and gain Daily Active Users from that utility alone.
Quasi-Clients rule everything around me. (and soon they'll rule everything around Farcaster too) https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/5f56928c-620f-4adf-4969-e7c3a3644a00/original
@rustopian is working to connect Farcaster with BGA, with more planned beyond. The proof of concept is that simple connection, with events infrastructure from @matthew at events.xyz handling the anchoring of casters in time and digital space.
In the meantime, I am drumming up activity in /tabletop, experimenting with activation tools like GIVE, tipsterBot, and board gaming activity.
gm /tabletop! This week is Catan Week! I'm tipping DEGEN for CATAN content all week 🙌 Cast your fav strats, your best stories, and take a photo of you playing 1 game of Catan this week! @reisub-bas wants to play, y'all should get on a game with them https://warpcast.com/reisub-bas/0x690c2b21
Dominion monday 4/22/24, what time y'all? https://warpcast.com/ispeaknerd.eth/0xe55a340e https://www.supercast.xyz/polls/80b37678-347c-4156-8151-37f2a4bcc9b4
The initial idea is to connect Farcaster accounts to the game platform BoardGameArena such that Farcasters can invite and challenge each other to games on BGA.
Stay tuned for announcements!
trying something https://boardframes.vercel.app/api/diceforge/507257843
Asking for DEGEN tips to claim project domain, 45k raised, only 45k more to go fam!
If y'all wanna see a more connected, easier to game with others, /tabletop happen, donate your DEGEN tips on this cast and let's get a project domain! need 90k DEGEN for the best one, it'll be sick, trust fam https://warpcast.com/ispeaknerd.eth/0x57c03eab
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tabletop creator @ispeaknerd.eth is helping me test fundraising on poidh v2 by creating a bounty for himself to buy + launch a domain name 👉 https://degen.poidh.xyz/bounty/28 I've added 1000 $DEGEN towards this great cause, and anyone else can pitch in on Degen Chain by using the "join bounty" button 💰
it's an awesome idea, check out the vision for future of /tabletop in this blog article https://paragraph.xyz/@ispeaknerd.eth/building-tools-for-tabletop?referrer=0x3eEFAa9d6e2ab7972C1001D41C82BB4881389257
gm nerds, a vision for the future of /tabletop https://paragraph.xyz/@ispeaknerd.eth/building-tools-for-tabletop?referrer=0x3eEFAa9d6e2ab7972C1001D41C82BB4881389257
I support this cause. 728 $degen
thank you!
Fund what matters 🤝
2325 $degen (whew, my allowance has been nerfed hard this month)
Thanks @eggman.eth, we all suffering from farmers at the top, degen team working on it
Really excited about this!! I deeply love board games (and sometimes designing them too...). I have been meaning to make bigger contributions to the channel, and will do once I have more time! Keeping up to date with this in the meantime. Thanks for the article!
hell yeah, thank you for your support Felipe! what's exciting and valueful about the article for you?
upcoming plans for the channel we are halfway to 90k degen tips for /tabletop domain, can donate again today, keep it coming y'all! https://paragraph.xyz/@ispeaknerd.eth/building-tools-for-tabletop
thank you for minting @eurekajohn @0xjoshua @flancaster! It helps me out and keeps me going!
I found it during my unlonely broadcast and talked about you and it! I minted to demonstrate your usage of frames and Paragraph. Great stuff!
we are getting there!
Thread fairy ✨ 690 $degen
1919 $DEGEN this better be a short and memorable domain hehehe
thank you!!
6800 $degen
thank you!
98 $DEGEN (all my allowance - haven't been tipping enough!)
368 $DEGEN my whole (pitiful) allowance, fwiw 😅
every bit counts!
@paybot 5000 DEGEN
whoa thank you ser!
My full 98 $DEGEN to you
ty fam
49 $degen !
ty fam!
😤 468 $degen
Thanks @clt ❗
Great idea thank you ! 300 $DEGEN
Thanks DT! 🙏
Read the latest post by @ispeaknerd.eth, discussing the importance of feedback, how it fuels the growth of their /tabletop community, and their vision for a product that eases coordination issues. They are working on an unnamed /tabletop Quasi-Client to enrich the experience for board game lovers!