frames-v2

Farville 🧑‍🌾

Betttr

Just Frame It 🖼️

a guide on how to build viral mini-apps on farcaster 👀

less about complexity, more about tight loops, social moments, and dopamine triggers

sharing what we learned from building /farville, /betttr, and helping other teams ship during /just-frame-it

(also: if you need help building yours, dm's open 🫡)

cto @ bwl.gg, 100M+ users (bdut.ch) 🙏 $eggs is life

product /builders-garden /farville | 
 organizing /just-frame-it | hosting a web3 hub in rome /urbe-eth /ethrome 🇮🇹🐺

https://limone.lol

amazing article. the viral loop is such a key component of it

cc @warpcastadmin.eth what are your core takeaways for building sucessful mini apps so far?

generalist currently working for /a0x - father and creator

1. simplicity
2. incentives
3. if people don't share a mini app DAILY, it will die
4. token is a must

Moxie Official

Founder of CryptoPlaza. Delegate at dYdX, MakerDAO (Sky), and AAVE. Member of MetaCartel. Ambassador for Superfluid.

no doubt we’re witnessing new socio-economic dynamics here on farcaster. the social primitives and building blocks allow for entirely new types of experiments.

i can speak from our experience building /farville.

what’s been fascinating is seeing the game grow without any explicit incentives - just dopamine, friends, and a bit of competition. (we only announced weekly leagues and rewards yesterday.) and to me, that feels like healthy growth.

so why didn’t we launch a token?
a few reasons:
	1.	legal concerns - we currently operate from the EU
	2.	fun should come first -  launching a token risks shifting the focus
	3.	pressure - introducing a token adds expectations we didn’t want from day one

we still think onchain games can be super compelling with things like collectibles or p2p mechanics, tokens aren’t the only tool.

so yeah, i agree tokens can be a huge opportunity, but they’re not always the answer.
if forced or done wrong, they can break more than they fix.

agree on all, except for 4.

/farville is been among the trending frames since january without a token

this is why we didn't launch it https://warpcast.com/limone.eth/0xa7615b3f

ofc we're working on more onchain stuff - but not on an erc20 token

token is a new meta on farcaster with official airdrops, didn't apply before a week ago

plus, memecoins are no longer securities in the usa