products i tried #1
Mike
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inspired by a @dwr post:
Always love trying out new apps, crypto related and otherwise. Lots of great products get shipped every day. There is lots of noise and discovery is hard. Hopefully this can be a place for people to discover new things being built and encourages them to try new products.
Onchain Photo Apps:
Moshi Cam by Gallery - Uses passkey for login. Mint and collect polaroid style photos in an instagram like feed for cheap. Use custom borders for your pictures. On Base
Perma by Future Primitive - Another Instagram app using film role styles as filters to enhance photos. Like and collect photos (coming soon). Also a - currently in beta join waitlist here.
Popset by Sergio and Sven- Instagram like app powered by Solana. Onchain aspects are completely stripped away - web2 log in. Mint and collect photos. When posting photos can enable minting and set supply. Currently in Beta - download testflight here.
Others that I have not tried yet but look forward to trying: Rodeo by Foundation and Zora app
Other Apps
Base Token Store by Myk.eth - Search for any token, NFT and easily by in an e-commerce like experience. You can use the Coinbase Passkey wallet or connect a wallet. On Base.
Speculate by pushingmarkets - prediction markets on Base with PWA. Log in with email or wallet. On Base.
Goverland by Steexx - Mobile app for everything you need DAO related. Vote, see current and past proposals, explore DAOs and getting key DAO insights. Download the app here.
Social Fun by pump.fun team (?) - twitter like social feed with real time pump.fun buy feed on the side. Connect with Phantom wallet. On Solana.
Fastmind by Nyx - connect data to a wearable and earn rewards. set up competitions to compete weekly challenges with friends. Sign up for waitlist here. On Solana.
Non Crypto:
Fair Game - Your everything golf app. Join groups with friends, track stats, share live scorecards, share pictures, add wagers to matches and more. Download here.
Yuka - scan food and cosmetic products to get a health impact score. Example: scan sunscreen barcode to see quality of ingredients used. 100% independent.
lots of people asking this privately but no one asking publicly why is everyone so angry we don’t have any crypto apps and why did we abandon integrating or transferring existing apps to be onchain why the obsession with net new apps [i have my own answer but steelmanning is good thought experiment for us all]
Web3 discord killer is all we need
It’s called @towns and I’m totally getting it to start a community. At this point putting that effort into discord isn’t even worth it. I.e I’m not an investor or work there.
there are several, you need people to actually use them
tap in @comm.eth
Too many people attempted (or attempting) to build “crypto apps” instead of “apps that solve problems that happen to be a lot better with blockchains”
Thus infra is better bc you can solve a tangible problem that was invented by an imaginary and unserious market
https://warpcast.com/tanishq/0x2be946a0
I feel like there are a lot of crypto apps? Across all domains from consumer to infra and everything in between. Definitely not the scale of other apps, but I think that’s because crypto founders can’t (maybe don’t want to) break out of the crypto niche. More thoughts… https://warpcast.com/manuelmaccou.eth/0x74c52ce9
It's harder to build sustainable companies out of apps than what is perceived by many in our space. You have to grind it out, listen to users, do multiple pivots. The "new cool thing" changes so soon that many people try to jump onto it and expect quick success. It's hard to continue to listen to users, keep on shipping things, and have strong convictions in this environment, when you see a new cool app get quick success, and not being drawn to that. Specially for multiple years. But it will happen, both the builders and consumers have to be patient and have long term thinking IMO.
attention span. the collective attention span is very very short now. if its not new and profitable something will come along that is.
My two cents; many apps rn are tools for rotating money among crypto incrowd. All infra players want though is net new users with fresh money and engagement (or well, they say TVL, or active wallets, but these metrics become less important once onchain money becomes a blur (easy crosschain payments)). Imo the base unit is The User. All they want is new crypto users to grow the pie. Apps may convert new users to crypto. The idea that these apps should be new comes from still sub par UX compared to existing apps imo. This is not always the case though and we’re all slowly but steadily getting there.
because creating a network effect is at odds with crypto's PR problem, and without requisite DAU funding sustainability isn't possible the thing that exploded farcaster wasn't 'onchain twitter', or even 'decentralized social', but the net new frames feature
Skeumorphic apps have to add something that only crypto can do or why would people use or move from existing?
my 2¢ on need for apps: apps bring demand, demand brings investment, investment brings income/jobs. the music eventually stops without apps. apps let the music continue. why net new: porting an existing product isn't enough to move demand, so product must be much better (v hard) or previously not possible (easier)
i do think there's some threshold at which point an existing/ported over product does become much better on the new rails. i think warpcast is an example of this. had to get to ~feature parity w bird app before net new experiences that were only possible on new rails could exist (eg in feed txns)
inspired by @dwr.eth https://paragraph.xyz/@pit/1 Always love trying out new apps, crypto related and otherwise. Lots of great products get shipped every day. There is lots of noise and discovery is hard. Hopefully this can be a place for people to discover new things being built and encourages them to try new products.
I see "Future Primitive" I'm immediately excited
Lovely!! I’ve been itching to write something similar! Fun idea! Would love to invite you to try app.poster.fun as well! Onchain canva where you can create with community contributed stickers and publish to farcaster as frames 🖼️
awesome to see curated projects time to time. thanks for putting this together, mike! would love to send over some projects from /fbi to play around and share feedback for builders.
this is something @accountless.eth should check out!
Thanks for sharing 1000 $degen
need some spicy takes on these dawg
I agree, discovering and trying out new crypto apps is exciting and can lead to finding hidden gems in the space.