Writing a monthly update for noc flow and some thoughts on Flows more generally. I've been testing the product fairly extensively both as a creator and a curator since launch. I have found it as a natural direction to point community members to if I see them contributing at a high level. In January, noun o'clock enjoyer @8rr joined the art flow and this month Flows welcomed @annahannka for her tiny nouns pieces that she meticulously crafts every day!!

For those unaware, flows.wtf streams grants directly to individuals every second. It has been funded by Nouns DAO and currently streams $40k p/m to musicians, artists, storytellers, coders (shout out nouns95.wtf), car enthusiasts, the list goes on. Flows strives to streamline and automate small grants and bootstrap community at Nouns around Flow categories, e.g. Nounish Storytelling, where I have been contributing daily since being approved. Even if you are not a creator, you can earn by curating the Flows (which is a story for another day).

Whilst I think the infrastructure is great, there are some improvements which will involve the community leading the effort with regards to curating content, media and categories in addition to spreading the word beyond our network.

At this moment in time it is unclear how Flows fits into the newly proliferating #NounsBreakEvenMovement meme.

Some thoughts:

• It is scaling, mainly within existing categories, I am not sure it is actually promoting the stories of things happening to anyone outside of the Flows ecosystem though.

• There aren’t enough onboarding efforts happening to even make people aware of the existence of flows dot wtf (on us as the community)

• People are sleeping on the curation side of Flows, and there is a lack of engagement from Nouners too, but perhaps that is due to there not being anything they want to vote on (yet). Also think currently this is not as simple UX as it could be.

• Team very present and are core to the success, appreciate the responsiveness and think the product is working well as described wrt functionality. It is very AI heavy but the auto generating articles and real-time editing is next level stuff I've never experienced

• Q: Are grants spread too thin, potentially losing impact? Are there categories we should sunset and double down on novel tech for e.g.

• UI is in need of a designer to rethink entire interface, and UX could improve, make it more farcaster native , essentially a fc client, encourage more social interactions on the flows site/protocol

• Heavily leaning on AI metrics, but I am unsure if the AI knows what is wack and what is good, how well can they interpret a video or a piece of art beyond knowing if it was AI generated

• /noc channel, the flows-funded public square, now at ~1K followers, 130 members, and, thanks to Flows, there is an easy route to funding for people who celebrate noun o'clock. Have been promoting flows heavily through the channel, but in a natural way and community have found it easy to get a grant.

• Would note that perhaps many rushed into a Flow without prior proof-of-work and this could be a requirement as opposed to starting brand new initiatives via a Flow (imo) due to long periods of inactivity, and rugs.

Overall pretty bullish on Flows infrastructure, I am not sure the current categories are maximizing the impact though, so as I am writing this I will challenge the Nouns Selfie Flow in the hope that all other Flows can absorb this and will naturally include Nounish selfies anyway. I also don’t want to perpetuate the idea that taking a selfie with Noggles is default Nounish. I believe this will lead to minimum effort contribution and proliferation, I don’t mind seeing people wearing Noggles, they can do this in whatever Flow they take part in, I just don't think it has as much weight alone.

Thanks to Nouns DAO and the Flows team for this opportunity to bootstrap community led products and pursue decentralized design projects!

Written by Lil Noun 67

Choose from 256 Lil Nouns at https://lilnouns.auction and come help us spend $1M

Reach out to me on fc if you want help getting involved, come join the noun o'clock channel and check out probe.wtf art gallery I am making for Nouns. This year I plan to shift focus from purely derivative art to primarily pixel art for the Nouns protocol. I want to collaborate with artists to grow the protocol art collection and build meme value for Nouns. At the moment you can design/build your dream Noun here, with new trait proposals coming soon: probe.wtf/nouns/dreams/create

Writing a monthly update for noc flow and some thoughts on Flows more generally. I've been testing the product fairly extensively both as a creator and a curator since launch. I have found it as a natural direction to point community members to if I see them contributing at a high level. In January, noun o'clock enjoyer @8rr joined the art flow and this month Flows welcomed @annahannka for her tiny nouns pieces that she meticulously crafts every day!!

For those unaware, flows.wtf streams grants directly to individuals every second. It has been funded by Nouns DAO and currently streams $40k p/m to musicians, artists, storytellers, coders (shout out nouns95.wtf), car enthusiasts, the list goes on. Flows strives to streamline and automate small grants and bootstrap community at Nouns around Flow categories, e.g. Nounish Storytelling, where I have been contributing daily since being approved. Even if you are not a creator, you can earn by curating the Flows (which is a story for another day).

Whilst I think the infrastructure is great, there are some improvements which will involve the community leading the effort with regards to curating content, media and categories in addition to spreading the word beyond our network.

At this moment in time it is unclear how Flows fits into the newly proliferating #NounsBreakEvenMovement meme.

Some thoughts:

• It is scaling, mainly within existing categories, I am not sure it is actually promoting the stories of things happening to anyone outside of the Flows ecosystem though.

• There aren’t enough onboarding efforts happening to even make people aware of the existence of flows dot wtf (on us as the community)

• People are sleeping on the curation side of Flows, and there is a lack of engagement from Nouners too, but perhaps that is due to there not being anything they want to vote on (yet). Also think currently this is not as simple UX as it could be.

• Team very present and are core to the success, appreciate the responsiveness and think the product is working well as described wrt functionality. It is very AI heavy but the auto generating articles and real-time editing is next level stuff I've never experienced

• Q: Are grants spread too thin, potentially losing impact? Are there categories we should sunset and double down on novel tech for e.g.

• UI is in need of a designer to rethink entire interface, and UX could improve, make it more farcaster native , essentially a fc client, encourage more social interactions on the flows site/protocol

• Heavily leaning on AI metrics, but I am unsure if the AI knows what is wack and what is good, how well can they interpret a video or a piece of art beyond knowing if it was AI generated

• /noc channel, the flows-funded public square, now at ~1K followers, 130 members, and, thanks to Flows, there is an easy route to funding for people who celebrate noun o'clock. Have been promoting flows heavily through the channel, but in a natural way and community have found it easy to get a grant.

• Would note that perhaps many rushed into a Flow without prior proof-of-work and this could be a requirement as opposed to starting brand new initiatives via a Flow (imo) due to long periods of inactivity, and rugs.

Overall pretty bullish on Flows infrastructure, I am not sure the current categories are maximizing the impact though, so as I am writing this I will challenge the Nouns Selfie Flow in the hope that all other Flows can absorb this and will naturally include Nounish selfies anyway. I also don’t want to perpetuate the idea that taking a selfie with Noggles is default Nounish. I believe this will lead to minimum effort contribution and proliferation, I don’t mind seeing people wearing Noggles, they can do this in whatever Flow they take part in, I just don't think it has as much weight alone.

Thanks to Nouns DAO and the Flows team for this opportunity to bootstrap community led products and pursue decentralized design projects!

Written by Lil Noun 67

Choose from 256 Lil Nouns at https://lilnouns.auction and come help us spend $1M

Reach out to me on fc if you want help getting involved, come join the noun o'clock channel and check out probe.wtf art gallery I am making for Nouns. This year I plan to shift focus from purely derivative art to primarily pixel art for the Nouns protocol. I want to collaborate with artists to grow the protocol art collection and build meme value for Nouns. At the moment you can design/build your dream Noun here, with new trait proposals coming soon: probe.wtf/nouns/dreams/create