Lounge S3: Designers

Today in /lounge, on this hallowed Farcaster Friday, we get to the heart of thing. 

How are you funding your current project? How would you fund it if you could do it over?

/bolide is the easiest way to buy with your favourite memes on Base

bolide.fi

weird internet kid. helping Creators with /seemore. yapping on /okbanger. curating in /creators and /cameron. dev + veteran + HBS. 
seemore.tv/cameron 🫡

bringing memes to retail @bolide | shitcoins trader | passionate about UX 👩‍💻 

@bolide team has been bootstrapping through memecoin trading and market making. Small grants also help a lot!

It’s hard, but you get what you get.

At the moment I’m self funded - working a full time job and doing this as a side project. 

Farthercast.xyz 

Really wanna just build this out full time!

Head of Growth: Webx, CoinPost, Motto: Learn/Build/Share. Web3 builder - building /farthercast 

https://farthercast.xyz

dope - hopefully FC can get you an investor!

Global founders and builders painting the next wave of consumer crypto on Farcaster.

Diving deep into web3! Building /onchain-rookies: where rookies learn and grow together.

@nonlinear.eth and @alexcomeau might 🫡

I’m planning on setting up a hypersub subscription for my new IRL base project with @callusfbi 

I don’t know how it’ll go so can’t say how I would do it over yet. 

Any recommendations?

Onchain is the new online - FID 206 -  cooprecords.xyz

yea the dude has some roles in incredible series

I was today years old when I realized Bill Burr was in Breaking Bad.

Absolute legend

Combo of @hypersub, grants, sponsors & mostly bootstrapping. 

Nothing I would do differently at this point. Lean & mean

Hackathon winnings at first. Now grants and crowdfunding.

Security projects are tough to fund as public goods generally unless you hit meteoric success (Revoke), but will keep trying.

Nouns x Farcaster prop house + saving since I'm not paying myself.

Will continue bootstrapped and will add ways to monetize sooner rather than later.

I was aiming to raise a pre-seed round to really kick it into gear sooner but decided to drop that and do it on my own on the side until it's sustainable full-time.

mostly have been surviving off personal savings for close to a year 

got a Nouns Builder grant and a small Base grant which both helped a lot

Blockhead・Web3 Browser/Explorer

@blockhead is currently funded by:

• dozens of hackathon prizes
• @gitcoin donations and quadratic matching
• @optimism RetroPGF Round 3
• a /buidlguidl stream (unofficially)
• free tiers and startup credits from various RPC services and API providers
• hundreds of hours’ worth of my nights and weekends

https://warpcast.com/darrylyeo/0x7fe89814

To start, a hundred dollars from my mom and a small pinch of student loan money. Took 2 years to build the mvp. Made all my money back and then some on the first day, and still self-sustaining.

I like bootstrapping small, it's a fun challenge.