I'm trying my hand at building a project on @base to learn more. I've been having a lot of fun with @rodeodotclub so I'm tinkering with the idea of a dashboard. 

This thread covers what I learned in my first 2 days of building a tool to show each bundled Rodeo tx onchain.

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seeker. generalist. experience in product design, branding, python, game modding, pixel art, daos, biohacking

I'm only able to do this because I'm using Cursor as my IDE. My stack is gonna be streamlit for the front-end (for now), then web3 plus Alchemy API for onchain things and metadata.

I'm not really familiar with what my library options are, so I went with the recommendations of the AI.

Friday, I started by trying to find the onchain location of all the Rodeo minting. It took me awhile but the real challenge that day was learning I couldn't use Alchemy's Transfers API to find the transaction. I had to use the Node API.

Most of that day was spent learning what event signatures were, along with being lost in the web of my code. Eventually I was able to find individual NFT transfers and query metadata, but my code had turned to spaghetti.

Saturday, I decided to start from scratch and work towards cleaner code. I built a template to define what I wanted to grab from the event logs and a template for the NFT meta data.

The hardest challenge Saturday was merging the two of those into a third template that would define the display data I wanted to use for my front-end. It still needs some work.

My core learnings so far were around using Cursor properly, and all of the event signature stuff. I also found buried in the code some alpha related to Rodeo.

If I could wish for something, it would be a place where I could ask questions about the things that Claude and o1 we're clueless about. There are just some things only a real blockchain dev could quickly answer.

My next step is to figure out what would make this more useful. I've brainstormed a few ideas but I think I'm going to keep using Rodeo and see what I'm inspired to build that won't consume my entire free API tier.

My background is in UX design and branding but I do have around a thousand hours of experience in front-end and python. That should give you a sense of where I'm at as I start. 

I've also been doing this crypto thing since 2014 so I'm familiar with blockchains to a point.