I used to think that having a web version could give the app scalability and attract many new people to both Farcaster and the Base app.
But after creating
@joysender and CelebrationHub (a profile for sending gifts directly from X feeds to Celebration Hub → Farcaster + Base app), I started to think differently.
I now see Celebration Hub not just as a place celebration and mini-app interface (which is the main thing) but also as infrastructure for my bots - it looks like a network and even a funnel for attracting attention. Every gift is literally free advertising for the protocol: “Look, it’s more fun inside Farcaster/Base app — join us!”
Building a full-featured web version without the Farcaster social graph is almost impossible. Creating my own social layer on top of Celebration Hub would be difficult, and if I built it just for the sake of having it, it wouldn’t be safe — I’d risk various attacks, drained contracts, spam gifts, and so on (no Neynar, no Quotient, no social scores).
I see huge potential in gift-sending on X and Farcaster — not directly through the Celebration Hub interface, but via bot mentions. The infrastructure I’ve built can process around 10 gifts per minute (I just don’t need more right now, and it would be expensive), and each gift is a transaction. But if I completely rebuilt the app for Web2, it could potentially reach a much larger audience. It’s not difficult, but I want to show that users can interact with crypto without even realizing it — and yeah, every transaction goes to the birthday pool and to users. But a lot of people hate crypto, and for them it will be a huge red flag.
Also It’s difficult to develop a project on Base due to the lack of mentorship and advice. And when you consider that “influential voices” offer almost no real support, it becomes even harder to keep building. Still, I’m confident in my idea - I just need to figure out the best way forward. And I need more opportunities to showcase this infrastructure so that it is treated with more respect.
