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Building Tools For /tabletop

A Farcaster quasi-client for /tabletop

iSpeakNerd

iSpeakNerd

Welcome to the 6 people who've joined since Sunday!

Thank you to those of you that collected my writings, it helps me out and keeps me going!

Grateful to all 227 of you for reading, hope you're having a great week!

Enjoyy the content, take it higher, and join the /tabletop channel on Farcaster.


Key Takeaways

  1. Soliciting quality feedback is invaluable.

  2. People want to push things forward.

  3. Build in public πŸ’ͺ

Y'all know I love 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!

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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 🀣🀣

Feedback Loops

So I asked the channel. Β―\_(ツ)_/Β―

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

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

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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.

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So the most valuable product is something that smooths out the UX issues of coordinating people in both (digital) space and time.

The Vision

The internet robs us of moments, it's Everything Everywhere, All At Once. Very much an open mouth, insert firehose situation.

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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!

Product

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.

Making it a reality

@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.

Almost done with Catan Week!

Dominion next week!

Proof of Concept

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!

Crowdfunding for the website

Asking for DEGEN tips to claim project domain, 45k raised, only 45k more to go fam!



If you enjoyed this,

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  1. Give me a shout on Farcaster

  2. Come join the /nerdery channel and the /tabletop channel

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iSpeakNerd πŸ§™β€β™‚οΈFarcaster
iSpeakNerd πŸ§™β€β™‚οΈ
Commented 1 year ago
ciefa 🐌 eth/accFarcaster
ciefa 🐌 eth/acc
Commented 1 year ago

I support this cause. 728 $degen

iSpeakNerd πŸ§™β€β™‚οΈFarcaster
iSpeakNerd πŸ§™β€β™‚οΈ
Commented 1 year ago

thank you!

iSpeakNerd πŸ§™β€β™‚οΈFarcaster
iSpeakNerd πŸ§™β€β™‚οΈ
Commented 1 year ago

Fund what matters 🀝

eggman πŸ”΅Farcaster
eggman πŸ”΅
Commented 1 year ago

2325 $degen (whew, my allowance has been nerfed hard this month)

iSpeakNerd πŸ§™β€β™‚οΈFarcaster
iSpeakNerd πŸ§™β€β™‚οΈ
Commented 1 year ago

Thanks @eggman.eth, we all suffering from farmers at the top, degen team working on it

FelipeFlores.βŒβ—¨-β—¨Farcaster
FelipeFlores.βŒβ—¨-β—¨
Commented 1 year ago

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!

iSpeakNerd πŸ§™β€β™‚οΈFarcaster
iSpeakNerd πŸ§™β€β™‚οΈ
Commented 1 year ago

hell yeah, thank you for your support Felipe! what's exciting and valueful about the article for you?

iSpeakNerd πŸ§™β€β™‚οΈFarcaster
iSpeakNerd πŸ§™β€β™‚οΈ
Commented 1 year ago

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

iSpeakNerd πŸ§™β€β™‚οΈFarcaster
iSpeakNerd πŸ§™β€β™‚οΈ
Commented 1 year ago

thank you for minting @eurekajohn @0xjoshua @flancaster! It helps me out and keeps me going!

Eureka JohnFarcaster
Eureka John
Commented 1 year ago

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!

iSpeakNerd πŸ§™β€β™‚οΈFarcaster
iSpeakNerd πŸ§™β€β™‚οΈ
Commented 1 year ago

we are getting there!

iSpeakNerd πŸ§™β€β™‚οΈFarcaster
iSpeakNerd πŸ§™β€β™‚οΈ
Commented 1 year ago

Thread fairy ✨ 690 $degen

christinFarcaster
christin
Commented 1 year ago

1919 $DEGEN this better be a short and memorable domain hehehe

iSpeakNerd πŸ§™β€β™‚οΈFarcaster
iSpeakNerd πŸ§™β€β™‚οΈ
Commented 1 year ago

thank you!!

GregFarcaster
Greg
Commented 1 year ago

6800 $degen

iSpeakNerd πŸ§™β€β™‚οΈFarcaster
iSpeakNerd πŸ§™β€β™‚οΈ
Commented 1 year ago

thank you!

Christina BorrowLucid | ChonesFarcaster
Christina BorrowLucid | Chones
Commented 1 year ago

98 $DEGEN (all my allowance - haven't been tipping enough!)

Stephen CaudillFarcaster
Stephen Caudill
Commented 1 year ago

368 $DEGEN my whole (pitiful) allowance, fwiw πŸ˜…

iSpeakNerd πŸ§™β€β™‚οΈFarcaster
iSpeakNerd πŸ§™β€β™‚οΈ
Commented 1 year ago

every bit counts!

Stephen CaudillFarcaster
Stephen Caudill
Commented 1 year ago

@paybot 5000 DEGEN

iSpeakNerd πŸ§™β€β™‚οΈFarcaster
iSpeakNerd πŸ§™β€β™‚οΈ
Commented 1 year ago

whoa thank you ser!

Chris Biele πŸ“ΈFarcaster
Chris Biele πŸ“Έ
Commented 1 year ago

My full 98 $DEGEN to you

iSpeakNerd πŸ§™β€β™‚οΈFarcaster
iSpeakNerd πŸ§™β€β™‚οΈ
Commented 1 year ago

ty fam

FelipeFlores.βŒβ—¨-β—¨Farcaster
FelipeFlores.βŒβ—¨-β—¨
Commented 1 year ago

49 $degen !

iSpeakNerd πŸ§™β€β™‚οΈFarcaster
iSpeakNerd πŸ§™β€β™‚οΈ
Commented 1 year ago

ty fam!

CarlFarcaster
Carl
Commented 1 year ago

😀 468 $degen

iSpeakNerd πŸ§™β€β™‚οΈFarcaster
iSpeakNerd πŸ§™β€β™‚οΈ
Commented 1 year ago

Thanks @clt ❗

DTFarcaster
DT
Commented 1 year ago

Great idea thank you ! 300 $DEGEN

iSpeakNerd πŸ§™β€β™‚οΈFarcaster
iSpeakNerd πŸ§™β€β™‚οΈ
Commented 1 year ago

Thanks DT! πŸ™

Building Tools For /tabletop