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.
Mike
lots of people asking this privately but no one asking publicly why is everyone so angry we donât 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
Itâs called @towns and Iâm totally getting it to start a community. At this point putting that effort into discord isnât even worth it. I.e Iâm not an investor or work there.
there are several, you need people to actually use them
tap in @comm.eth
1. It's very difficult for crypto to be frictionless to the non-crypto user (including the friction of its reputation). 2. Skeumorphic apps ported onchain are often not powerful enough value props to overcome this friction. 3. But perhaps some "net new" behaviors will make it worth facing first-time crypto friction.
#3. New use cases and new apps that were not possible before.
Net new apps are the only way to really drive adoption. Example: GoodReads vs onchain GoodReads -> what is the reason for a user to switch? If itâs the exact same app, there is no reason. Put another way: if you only aim for GoodReads audience, the best you can do is GoodReads, and itâll be an uphill battle.
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 thatâs because crypto founders canât (maybe donât 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.
Skeumorphic apps have to add something that only crypto can do or why would people use or move from existing?
my 2Âą 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 âcrypto appsâ instead of âapps that solve problems that happen to be a lot better with blockchainsâ
Thus infra is better bc you can solve a tangible problem that was invented by an imaginary and unserious market
Now apps are hard regardless of whether they are on crypto rails or not. They are harder on crypto rails because of the UX. Back in 2021 everyone was excited because some large apps such as Instagram, Twitter, Reddit and YouTube were exploring crypto features. After FTX and the bull market all of that stopped. The few new apps that have received any attention are speculative such as friend tech and Polymarket. No one wants to try anything else. The reason why I'm a fan of Farcaster. One of the few projects actually trying to do stuff in crypto and consumer without fi
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
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.
need some spicy takes on these dawg
this is something @accountless.eth should check out!