Matthew
@matthew
A few weeks ago, I played the "say cheese" mini app with my non-crypto/fc girlfriend for an hour. She used the signed-out web url and I used the mini app. At one point she asked if there was a way to see me on the leaderboard. had I sent her a canonical fc url for that mini app, that would have been the perfect time to get her on FC. but because I hadn't and because of the friction of having to then download an app and help her sign up, we didn't. she plays the nyt games every day, has all her friends to the leaderboard, and shares scores with them. Farcaster is that but for way more kinds of games and apps. And I think this kind of behavior is a far more unique and powerful analogy as to why Farcaster might appeal to normies than being a place to "make money". I think this is an analogy that the team should focus more on, because a) I'm selfish and I want FC to appeal to my gf and b) because I think a mini app/game social network is a great analogy.
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Matthew
@matthew
Two things FC could do to get there: - signed out canonical URLs for mini apps. I think this might exist already? but I should be able to send my gf a farcaster url that loads the mini game, maybe with a leaderboard or social feed and info for that game, without the requirement to sign up. - when someone is ready to sign up, there should be a managed signup flow that pops open like a drawer, that mini apps can invoke with an sdk action. It should be highly optimized to be as frictionless as possible (I know there's some storage-related stuff coming there). And the ideal framing should be "create a farcaster account to play [insert game name]". As soon as they create their account, ping a webhook like how notifs work, and then let the app continue on.
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Garrett
@garrett
that second thing could be a big unlock to allow mini apps to onboard people to farcaster
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Sheldon Trotman
@sheldon
two amazing suggestions. Mini apps are the Trojan horse to onboarding but just like you said it needs to be super seamless
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Mark Carey 🎩🫂
@markcarey
100%. Bring them in the side door.
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