22 people have played over 365 games of framedl. I’m one of them. I'm not saying this to flex my consistency (although I'm a little proud of it). I'm saying it because it speaks to the craft and love Dusan’s poured into building it.
Framedl is Wordle in a frame. I know we call them mini apps now, but when Dusan built Framedl, it was all frames. The thing is I’ve known about Wordle for years. Played it a few times. But Framedl is the first time I actually stuck around and played something consistently.
Part of it is that the game is just fun. But there are a few other things that keep me coming back.
First, the competition. You don’t want to lose your streak or drop in rank. It’s gotten way more competitive over the year. But I keep coming back.
Second, the social trigger. I’d see people I follow or frens with post their wins and sometimes their Ls. That nudge usually gets me to take my turn.
And third, I’m not playing with strangers. I’m playing with people I have some weird Farcaster connection with. It feels like a little tribe. A quiet, nerdy corner of the purple app where some of us became frens because of Framedl and others started playing because our frens were playing them.
If you haven't yet, give framedl a try. I promise you. It's fun.
Patricia is one of the winners of farcaster rewards leaderboard. She did something amazing that I truly respect. She went on a tryst to find 125 casts by people she didn't follow and had less than 100 followers.
She put in massive effort and rigor into doing this. I highly recommend checking out her cast and learn more about her experience. It is an interesting exercise that sheds light on content discoverability.
Final update: After a slow start in the primary feeds and channels, I looked at every person on the rewards leaderboard. Yes, I looked at the casts of 3,000 accounts today. Across my entire search, I came across 203 users I wasn't already following and have <100 followers. I viewed more than 4,000 casts and only found 37 casts that fit my original criteria. I've decided to split the $125 reward among those 37 casts using likes with Noice. Why so few compared to my goal? Ultimately, I did not compromise on my original criteria: (1) cast by an account I don't follow already, (2) has <100 followers, and (3) I find genuinely interesting. I didn't intend to prove any point about the algorithm, and I'm not sure it does. I simply wanted to pay my rewards forward. But going down this insane little rabbit hole sparked ideas + questions for me about new user discovery here, which I'll share eventually. For now, I'll include links to those 37 casts in a reply below. https://farcaster.xyz/patriciaxlee.eth/0x0a93cc3e
A new mini app by borodutch. Many folks got an airdrop of the $SIMP token. You run participate command and complete a transaction get a ticket. At random times, 50 winners are picked to split the pot, from one Legendary Gem winner down to 32 Lucky Loot winners. Rewards vary by tier, and 10% always goes to the team.
Apart from the fact that again missed posting last week (consistency is hard), Puneet and I shipped an upgrade on the baseedge token stats mini app. We now also show you the top 3 tokens from your base portfolio and where you rank based on that.
It was an interesting challenge figuring out how to support two different share flows in the same mini app, each with its own personalized, embeddable image. The infra bit had been equally interesting and deserves a post in itself. But all these experiments has led Puneet and I to a mini app idea that we are incredibly excited about. Hopefully shipping soon. Stay tuned!
