Been trying lots of minigames lately - I'm begging you, make me pay $1 for something - anything. You capture a lot of attention and you don't create value out of it. That's the whole point. Don't fall into the Clubhouse / Bereal trap!

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I think I agree with you for the longer term but for now I'm not sure advertisers would be interested in small number of users and mini games have very short lifetimes so they won't be there anymore when the volumes are high enough.

Pretty sure you can develop a game in 2 days and get 2/3k people to use it. If half of them pay $1 (current users have magic internet money) then that's time well invested.

Counter is that most people who don’t have magic internet money aren’t down to pay $1 for mini games and apps (or even full-sized ones) so it’s better to pursue the traditional grow → monetize (likely via ads) route

imagine a minigame where players can wait for a timer to expire or pay $1 to jump straight into the action

I'm starting to believe that each /farcade game should be a frame in itself with its own growth mechanism. Having one step before joining a game probably decreases the viral coefficient by an order of magnitude.

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Yes! Actually casted about it today
https://warpcast.com/polmaire.eth/0x4a6c91ff

Initially read this as “mindgames” and proceeded to be extremely intrigued!

Yup, we're exploring with this. Our thesis is that the lifespan of these types of games, no matter how addictive, cool or innovative they are, is quite short. So the idea of waiting to monetize later doesn't work here, the ideal is to monetize in “non-shit” ways from day 1.