kualta (@kualta) • Hey
building web3 social with love
@lens/pingpad @lens/fountain
Publications
- sometimes a founder has to make the toughest choices.
an animal mascot or an anime mascot...
- went super hard on https://pingpad.io today, multiple feeds, notifications, post comments, profiles, profile cards - all working now
- I should make a gaming network
- the solution to mediocre graduates is not to further beat them down to the life of mediocrity, but rather to inspire to build their own work place, in the future they want
- publishing v2 for https://github.com/kualta/dots, now with nix setup & catppuccin theme
- my entire dev setup for @lens/pingpad (nix, vsc & gemini copilot) can actually be replicated by a single instance of project idx by google (vsc cloud instance on nix with gemini), all in a single browser page
- https://pingpad.io week 3, we got many improvements and reactions are finally here!
(ft. @lens/charmtaylor, @lens/stani, @lens/aavechan)
- I hope 150M us tiktok users can sense what problem decentralized social solves now.
- we take the web and give it back to you, the people
- one man's exponential is another man's sigmoid
- merch soon™
- Let there be Fountain! @lens/potential @lens/kualta
- tonight, chat
- pingpad is steadily progressing!
- week 1 of https://pingpad.io, we got our own wallet connector now and the repo is moved to github.com/pingpad-io/ping (kindly star)
- 天上天下，唯我独尊。
- day 6 of https://pingpad.io, we got new layout, wallet connector, and did some backend heavylifting
- missed my train, tonight we're building OSS in the train station
- kindly join us if you're interested in building in the lens ecosystem!
- If you're a designer and would like to work on a social blogging app built on @lens/lens, reply or DM me on XMTP.
Appreciate it if you can help spread this!
- your bonsai, kindly
- day 4 of https://pingpad.io, we got @lens/lens integration, auth and feed working now
- @lens/yoginth @lens/hey please i'm begging
i gochu with a .png
- collecting with stablecoins is an option
- day 2 of the ping rewrite
- to devs, kindly
- pingpad is a minimalistic deso platform, open for everyone.
unlike other projects, the main goals are unstoppability, flexibility and adoptability.
the current onboarding flow for web3 social has too much friction - pingpad is here to fix it.
since it's meant to be a universal tool, my vision of it also includes governance tools and embedded interactive experiences (think telegram mini-apps or farcaster frames in WASM instead of OpenGraph)
i really like the direction @lens/lens is going, so i decided to integrate it as step one for pingpad. @lens/hey, @lens/orb and @lens/buttrfly have been a great inspiration, too!
- sharing with @club/developers too
- #HeyFam are communities on the roadmap for @lens/hey?
- Thought Spew:
Lens has a growth problem.
And I’m not speaking about followers. Idk the DAU but if there is a high number it’s in very few spots.
I’m not seeing many builders here anymore trying new things. A year ago it seems like a new app popped up a week.
Apps are feeling too similar with 1 -3 things that are different between the others. While yes this is cool the similarities of apps could merge and build better products and ship faster. There are at least 4 twitter like clients which isn’t bad just could help with onboarding to have less similar apps and more separation of apps.
If there is a grant system for builders in lens it’s not very known and if there is not it should be something that’s thought about in a manner of sorts. Helping builders with that and once certain apps can VC fund potentially it allows more eyes on lens.
There are a lot of creators on CT that would love to be in decentralized social building things that can bring these creators over in partnerships of sort (imagine bringing the creators from y00ts and DeGods here with a partnership.)
ALSO these apps should have more than just builders on their teams. If you only have builders and no one to be the advertiser/ copy / communication lead that can turn technical talk into tangible speaking points.
In the end. We need growth. Bring more into the place to push this. Yes creators help but creators are spread thin when it comes to building their brand.
Growth looks like high DAU, more separation in apps, higher quality users that understand the meaning of lens and it’s ecosystem.
- 10x founder vibes
If you want to do it right you gotta do it yourself
- I'm new to web3 but I got inspired to build on lens protocol.
my first project is https://pingpad.io/
I will be sharing my progress here, on chain. hope we could get along!
- warm hello to lens devs
- after thinking for a **really long time** the best options i came up with are:
- bud.pet
- lenzy.xyz
- leaf.pink
- pingme.baby
it's so over for this project I swear
- Lens feels low-pressure, I hope it will stay that way for a looong time
- i'm building a new app on lens and i cannot decide on the domain/project name for two days already. #HeyFam naming is so cute... @lens/hey
- if you're going to try, go all the way. otherwise, don't even start
- Since there were some questions about the Airdrop eligibility:
Season 1 Airdrop (10%)
Went out to ~4500 profiles in the @lens/lens ecosystem. To the top profiles ranked by engagement from @lens/karma3labs , who where part of a @lens/orb v1 community or had @lens/madfinance points.
Season 2 Airdrop (15%)
Will be distributed based on usage of $BONSAI in Lens collects, tips, open actions, staking, and providing liquidity. More details on each will be announced as they are rolled out.
You're still early.
https://www.bonsai.meme/#tokenomics
( 100% of this posts $BONSAI collects goes to mirrors. #RainBonsai #PowerOfLens )
- good morning Q2, it's time to build.
- i think my chess elo is following etherium one cycle behind...
- warm hello to the @lens/lens community. here to @lens/build the future of web3.
- if born, then will
- boop