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I'm off from work today and want to try something new.

I'm going to build a new web3 project from 9-5 today and we'll see how far I can take it.

This will be a learning experience for you and me: What would it be like if I was doing this full time?

Follow along! 👇

Indie dev and dad.
Chaotic good.
Find my work at sylphdapps.com

Chonks

I am using the project I'm working on for /chonksxyz (going live after the marketplace launch!) as a starting point since it'll be faster than starting from scratch.

I've got everything copied over to a new "clovers" directory and yarn is installing dependencies.

Let's go! 🚀

I'm using Cursor for this little experiment.

Thank goodness for AI code assist because I'll be able to move a lot faster than I otherwise would.

On this tight, self-imposed deadline, that'll be key.

Gah, it's already 9:30 🙃

I'm using @openzeppelin 4 instead of 5 because Ownable doesn't require constructor args in 4.

When you verify a contract on Etherscan you need to provide a serialized version of your constructor args and I got bit trying to generate that one time...

Almost couldn't verify!

So here's how the deployment will work:

- Deploy each of the contracts
- Get their addys
- Point the storage contract at the minter and renderer
- Point minter at storage so it knows where to call mint()
- Point renderer at storage so it knows where to get token details from

Once we get to implementing the renderer this thread will be a lot prettier to look at for the non-techy followers, but we have to get minting working first.

In the meantime, here's a picture of a clover field:

The plan is to let people mint clover NFTs for super cheap, maybe 10 for a penny, and there will be realistic-ish odds of finding a four-leaf clover among them.

Looks like ETH is $1900 so we'll use that as our baseline.

One clover will cost 0.00000053. Free!

This is the minter contract so far, and it might be about all we need.

I can:
- Update the mint price
- Start and stop minting
- Withdraw accumulated ETH

You can:
- Mint clovers at a rate of 10 for a penny💚

Working on the renderer, the JS developer in me can't find the error on this line 😅

I ran into a snag but worked around it.

I was using ERC721A (from the Azuki team) because it is good at minting batches of NFTs cheaply.

The tradeoff is that looking up which batch a token is in gets more expensive the larger the batches become...

I was using the same technique EC721A uses to associate a seed with each clover (to determine number of leaves), but when minting huge amounts (since they're so cheap) the batches get so big that the renderer errored out trying to find the seeds.

So I've switched to ERC1155 where tokens are minted with a quantity and under the hood a counter is merely incremented for the correct amount.

ERC1155 tokens with the same ID are fungible, which makes sense for this project since one 3-leafer should be the same as another.

No shade to the Azuki team! ERC721A is amazing.

It's more on me for not recognizing sooner that these tokens aren't really the most non-fungible and that ERC1155 was the way to go.

I am spending too long trying to get the random distribution of values correct. I think I'll cut bait and go with what I have soon because I have to move on to other things.

It's easy to calculate if something will happen given a once in a million possibility but not easy to calculate how many times it will happen over many more runs while still be conscientious of gas.

After cleaning up some slop from Cursor after all that messing around with randomness, it's time to move on to the render implementation

Here is the viewer I put together

We'll see those squares fill in with clover images soon enough

We have progress! It's unlikely we'll see any 5 or 6 leavers minted. Ship it? 😅

Okay, the first push might include some placeholders

Status update:
- UI complete
- Deploying to Sepolia
- Then checking things over
- Then deploying to mainnet

I'll have to call the wife and tell her I'll be running late tonight.

UI is working well with the Sepolia deploy.

I'm taking a break to feed the kids and get them to bed before I pull the Base mainnet trigger.

Sorry, boss. That thing you asked for is going to be a few hours late. But what are you going to do, fire me?

I decided to get the images updated for the 5, 6, an 7 leaf varieties before launching.

Sorry if you were looking forward to having a copy of Six from Battlestar Galactica in your wallet.

Clovers is live! 🍀🚀

I have not released a new project in ages, and it was incredibly fun to put something together in such a short amount of time. Felt good.

If you cheered me on throughout the day, thank you!

Clovers is live! Announcement thread here:

Clovers is live! Announcement thread here:
https://warpcast.com/mikesylphdapps/0x04675ed7

I'll be posting updates threaded here

Since it's St. Patrick's Day, the theme will be clovers🍀

Technically shamrocks make more sense but a google search reveals that shamrocks always have three leaves while clovers can have more, so that's more fun!

Firing up the IDE now...