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.
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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]
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
Actually genuinely wondering if there are truly no apps OR is it that apps tend to be built by lean teams, who don’t get funding (bc it goes to infra), so we don’t see them peacocking or having a marketing budget to show up at industry events Idk the truth but my hunch is there’s way more infra than we need, more apps than we think, and it’s a visibility issue
attention span. the collective attention span is very very short now. if its not new and profitable something will come along that is.
Web3 discord killer is all we need
there are several, you need people to actually use them
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.
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because all of the infra works if there are an order of magnitude more apps than infra most people work in infra *ducks*
so the infra people are mad that there aren’t more apps because infra only works with apps? also like… why net new apps !!!! whats undesirable about having more starbucks rewards platforms onchain?
That’s been tried. Not enough benefit for existing apps to move over (there are substantial UX costs). Need new for it to work. https://danromero.org/significantly-worse-or-non-existent.html
We worked on this problem set 6 years ago, it's so difficult to convince any web2 company to move anything to web3. Back then we had to do infra too (L2 did not exist so we wrote our own), created wallet integration and SDKs so it would be seamless experience for the end user but it was still an uphill battle - biggest question why would end consumer care it's on blockchain. Majority don't. Starbucks did an NFT stint w Polygon who paid them $4M to do it - that's the reality. Convincing to try is not enough, paying for the costs to try it is not sustainable. One day 🥹
is the cost of moving < the benefit ? Likely not for most of the already existing apps.
Why would this be good for Starbucks ?
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which wallet/indexer/payments infra would you suggest for a gaming consumer app on base?
There are lots of crypto apps but nobody knows because they follow the crowd. The crowd being loud influencer voices. The ones that have had a flash in the pan so far had points or tokens attached and influencers pumped to make money. Infra gets attention for the same reason. https://paragraph.xyz/@pit/1
Absolutely agree First of all, it needs to make sense to add a blockchain component that solves either a problem not solvable by web2 components or add significant benefits..
Skeumorphic apps have to add something that only crypto can do or why would people use or move from existing?
it’s coming.
says everyone for years that’s probably why they’re all angry actually because they’ve been lied to again and again again with the “it’s coming soon just wait” if a guy did that to hid gf about proposing, she’d dump his ass after at least two years of it
they not like us.
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)
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
inspired by @dwr 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.
this is something @accountless.eth should check out!
Thanks for sharing 1000 $degen
I see "Future Primitive" I'm immediately excited
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.
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 🖼️
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I agree, discovering and trying out new crypto apps is exciting and can lead to finding hidden gems in the space.
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