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A very, very rough draft for "App Frames".  Feedback welcome. 

Our goal is to keep the best things about frames while making it easy to build great user experiences. 

https://warpcast.notion.site/App-Frames-Public-12a6a6c0c101805f84f0ca8bb27047d6?pvs=74

dang I really like this design, neat culmination of all the frame/mini app experiments over the past few months

tldr; you get the in-feed exposure of a frame but then can quickly load a mini app and even return content back into the frame for some sort of success state(or other use cases)

but yeah really excited about this and you should check out the rough "App Frame" spec below!

https://warpcast.com/v/0x9b6f7a25
https://warpcast.notion.site/App-Frames-Public-12a6a6c0c101805f84f0ca8bb27047d6

some super neat stuff in the "Other explorations" section as well!

building products in web3, hacking /farhack, yapping /dylan | dylansteck.com

yeah so it's like the current setup now except
- the mini app can close itself and the frame that triggered it can have some local state to show an event/interaction has happened(eg. you've minted the nft/rsvp'd to the event etc)
- we can grab the mini app html from the frame server on the frame call to make the whole ux a lot quicker/snappier

and a bit more I think but IIRC that's the main crux

so basically it's like the in-feed mini-app right now, but you can write frames + mini app at the same time?

> The biggest difference between “app frames” and frames is that instead of rendering multiple frames in a row, you can just open up a browser and render whatever UI you like,

For /sands-of-sumaii I have icons for each spell (like all RPGs). Does this mean I can now make the frame buttons icons instead?

For example, this is the Priest Fortitude spell - I'd love to make this the button instead of a grey box that says "Fortitude"

>This loads very fast because it doesn’t rely on images. It will also have context about the user so you can personalize the page for them. 

Does this mean the user is signed into FC when they interact?

Would be sick to integrate profile pages at https://www.sandsofsumaii.xyz/profile/chasesommer.eth

For example, mine looks like this:

I have a couple questions that you might understand better than I:

I have a couple questions that you might understand better than I:

https://warpcast.com/chasesommer.eth/0x1042db9d
https://warpcast.com/chasesommer.eth/0x78ef7d30