Octavian Voss (@ovoss) • Hey
Octavian Voss (@ovoss) • Hey
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- Hi there, fellow anime lovers 👋
I’m building Saga - an AI text RPG where you can chat with your favourite characters or write your own interactive fiction.
Initially, it was focused on anime characters but has now grown to encompass any fandom and character idea one may have.
I’d appreciate your feedback!
https://sagarpg.io
- For anyone interested we have an X (Twitter) Space about to start:
https://twitter.com/ReviseNFT/status/1689527548344991744
- Just shipped a huge update for Saga - an AI text RPG I’m building.
It introduces Community, Profiles, Llama2 model, Character Impersonation and lots more ⚡️
Collabs are on the way and they're going to be FUN!
@spectreseek.lens
- Just shipped a new update for Saga, the AI text RPG I'm building.
The Scene introduces custom worlds and characters.
There is a Game Master that can facilitate a DnD style game, vampires and a witch from World of Darkness, and some of my favourite anime characters.
Check it out at:
https://saga3.vercel.app
- It has been interesting to work on @wav3s, but something is troubling me. We are just getting started with the new marketing tools, this is serious, the following features in @wav3s will change everything again, and that scares me a little.
What do you think, do you like receiving rewards for sharing posts? Do you think it can make the feed dirty with bad content?
- Contextual Actions feature is here, making Saga more dynamic and interactive 🎉
If relevant, quick reply options will now appear according to the context of the game.
Looking forward to hearing your thoughts on it! ⚡️
Play Saga here:
https://saga3.vercel.app
- The nights & weekends s2 demoday was awesome.
A new update for Saga is coming soon 👀
- A lot has happened over the past few months in the @LensProtocol ecosystem.
In this thread I want to highlight some of the projects, updates, and products we or the community has shipped over the past year and also shed some light on what's coming next. 🌿❤️🔥⚡️
For anyone unfamiliar with @LensProtocol - Lens is a protocol, API, and suite of tools that enables developers to easily and quickly build social media applications, or integrate social features like follows, likes, publications, profiles, and encrypted chat.
Since the official launch on Polygon on May 18:
https://twitter.com/LensProtocol/status/1526944792013316097
... there have been around 100 apps that I would consider serious that are being built or that have launched on Lens.
https://www.lens.xyz/apps
There are also many apps integrating Lens social features into existing apps.
This use case will be a popular and growing one this year as it is a low lift and requires minimal work, but with a lot of upside.
Want to parse social posts in your wallet? Lens
Want to add a comments section to your blog? Lens
Already have posts/comments but want to add Collects, linked re-posts, and linked likes to your posts? Lens
Want to add a discussion forum to your site that's token-gated for your DAO? Lens
Want to leverage a user base of x hundreds of thousands (or in the future, x millions) of users without having to bootstrap a network from scratch? Lens!
Like managed services and cloud computing has abstracted away the need to build abd maintain complex back end infrastructure from scratch, Lens abstracts away to the need for developers to build and maintain the infrastructure necessary to implement social features themselves.
Whether or not Lens is built on traditional or decentralized technologies should not matter to the average user or developer.
At the end of the day, many of the features provided by Lens are only made possibly by blockchains and decentralized protocols like Arweave and IPFS, but they should not be at the forefront of the discussion.
Instead, the applications should speak for themselves: the UX and value proposition should be compelling enough on their own for the average internet user or developer to want to use or build on Lens, regardless of the underlying tech stack.
Part of providing a compelling UX is abstracting away the need to know about or understand blockchains and wallets at all.
As of now, this is not part of the average Lens front-end, but is something we'll be considering this year as we move toward scaling Lens to >50,000 TPS and enabling permissionless access to the protocol (both of which are on our somewhat near-term roadmap).
For developers, we plan to double down on providing the best possible DX we can offer for developers.
Last year we made consistent updates and improvements to our docs and API and launched two new SDKS:
Lens React SDK
https://twitter.com/dabit3/status/1606383208089718794
and React Native Lens UI Kit
https://twitter.com/dabit3/status/1600188853297377280
We have a lot of plans for these two libraries, and will also be considering shipping additional products to facilitate and improve the ease of development for devs building on or integrating Lens.
The engineering team led by @wagmi continues to ship new updates to the Lens API at a rapid pace.
You can keep up with the updates by following LensAPI on Lens: @lensapi
A small handful of highlights I will call out that were shipped last year:
- gated publications powered by @LitProtocol
- dispatcher enabling signless transactions
- optimistic UI updates
- feed highlights
- degrees of separation
- profile interests
+ many many others
In November, Lens adopted @xmtplabs to provide secure, private, and encrypted profile-to-profile DMs for the entire Lens ecosystem.
This was huge as it was one of the most requested features from Lens users and the reception has been incredible.
https://twitter.com/xmtp_/status/1588200030820704257
The Lens grants program has deployed funds to over 50 teams building on Lens.
We plan to continue working closely with, and providing support for, certain developers and teams who are building interesting or valuable applications on Lens through our grants program and / or providing engineering support through private channels.
We will be attending, mentoring, participating, and sponsoring strategic events in 2023, including branching out into more traditional "web2" events.
We plan to attend all major @ETHGlobal events, DevCon, & a few other web3 / blockchain events.
We also plan to create small to medium-sized meetup-type events this year in cities around the world starting with Sao Paulo in a couple of weeks.
Here, people can meet others in their community who are using or building on Lens, and also get allow-listed for a profile until permissionless access is enabled for everyone.
There is a lot of hype around web3 social right now:
https://twitter.com/ljin18/status/1610688970173878272
I agree that 2023 will be a huge year for web3 social and for Lens.
We are focused, motivated, and excited to continue building off of the momentum created last year to make 2023 a breakout year for Lens.
There is a lot more happening outside of DevRel, with dedicated teams working with creators (@christina & @bradorbradley) and also other areas of focus like integrations and partnerships.
I have not done a good job highlighting everything else happening in the ecosystem and with the other teams.
If you do want to keep up, follow Lens team members on Lens and on Twitter, starting with:
@christina
@bradorbradley
@fabri
@yoginth
@stani
@paris
@donosonaumczuk
@wagmi
@davidev
@sasicodes
@pealco
That wraps up this overview.
I'm beyond excited and motivated about what we will be working on this year and invite you enjoy the ride with us!
If you've made it this far congratulations, you can earn 1 WMATIC by simply mirroring this post (up to 200 WMATIC)
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- . @lenstaxyz.lens is the first app to allow you to monetise content on @LensProtocol via mobile app.
Try out advanced settings on Android now: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bartaxyz.lensta
- Interactive Actions coming to Saga very soon 👀
The upcoming update will introduce contextual actions players can execute to advance the story.
It will make the roleplaying experience even more realistic and immersive.
Saga is a text-based RPG built on top of GPT-3 which allows it to craft extremely realistic stories with natural interactions.
Pumped 🚀
Play Saga now at: https://saga3.vercel.app
- GM ☀️
What's everyone building?
- Hi everyone! 👋
Saga just got a fresh coat of paint!
The new UI is live; daily message and illustrate limits have been increased.
All feedback is welcome!
- The Gigs page on mynfteam just got an update and it's now packed with a huge list of web3 jobs.
More jobs, both aggregated and native to mynfteam, are on the way 🚀
https://mynf.team/gigs
- Hi everyone! 👋
Introducing Multiple Sagas - a feature that allows players to have multiple sagas at the same time.
You can now switch between different sagas and pick up right where you left off, without having to start a new game.
The total limit of messages has been replaced by a daily limit.
If you've played Saga before, please make sure to clear your local storage.
Play Saga at:
https://saga3.vercel.app
All feedback is welcome!
- Excited to announce the ULTIMATE guide to Lens Protocol!🌿
It's a 5-hour course on building a full social media app, including:
- What Lens is and how it works
- Sign in with Lens
- Feed page
- Profile pages
- Create page
- Following other users
And much more! ⬇️
https://youtu.be/e1mPmDRUUBc
- Happy New Year, everyone! 🎄💖
- Hi everyone!👋
Really excited to announce Saga Illustrate - a feature that allows players to generate images based on the story derived from their current game run.
Couldn't stop playing with it.
I’ve been fiddling with various prompts, trying to engineer something generic that would get me stable results…
Well, it is beginning to yield more or less decent output 🤭 I’m attaching some of the best images I got.
Hope to see which moments you’ll illustrate! 💖
So cool to think that an ai creates and condenses its own output, generates a prompt off it, and another model then turns it into an image. Learning a great deal about this stuff. Haven't felt so alive since NFTs 😁
If potential prompts are low quality, you won’t get any results, a notification prompting you to try again will appear instead.
Please try to re-run Illustrate if you encounter an error.
You’ll notice the new Illustrate button right next to the Generate one.
Check it out here: saga3.vercel.app
- Hi everyone! 👋
I’d like to introduce Saga-3 - an AI text-based roleplaying game.
I got into AI thanks to buildspace and couldn’t get enough of playing with GPT-3.
Saga-3 allows players to interact with their favourite characters.
Through this game, players can spar, talk, learn more about the world of the characters, and even experience them in both vulnerable and powerful moments.
It started as a conversation with Itachi, I randomly typed “Fire ball jutsu”, and he replied that he dodges and counterattacks.
It felt great - to get a reaction like that to my input.
I thought it would be cool to be able to have this depth of interaction with my favourite characters, like I’d always wanted but wasn’t able to. And here it is.
The initially available characters are Itachi, Naruto, and Byakuya - my personal favourites, though I’m planning to introduce a feature that enables players to add custom characters and setting.
It is essentially a playground with some context given to the model about your interlocutor, their world, and the setting, before you start talking to characters, and a UI that formats and displays the output.
Now, having started building it, I kinda got carried away, and thought what if I could use AI to help me make it.
And it actually did. The trailer (yes, the game has a trailer 🤭) was made with AI - I synthesised Japanese voice lines on Fliki.
AI had also helped me condense some of the text used in the app.
You can export your game run as CSV or back it up as JSON. You can also import a JSON backup to restore the game, it allows you to save some really good runs and expand on them or take a different path.
To capture your favourite moments with characters, you can export conversation items as images.
It’s really fun, try it out!
This project provided me an opportunity to try the new appDir in NextJS 13
- The UI is built with Mantine
- The app is using the OpenAI API
- Image exports are done with Satori(@shuding_/Vercel)
- Jotai is used for state management
- Deployed on Vercel
Due to the nature of OpenAI API’s pricing, it is possible to send 5 messages to your interlocutor on Saga’s behalf.
To have a continuous conversation, you’ll need to add your OpenAI API key to your profile which is stored locally and used only to employ GPT-3.
For the peace of mind, you could create a new key that's only used with Saga.
All feedback is welcome!
Watch the trailer here:
https://youtu.be/OsotNAWC3-k
Play Saga at:
https://saga3.vercel.app
Get your free OpenAI API key here:
https://beta.openai.com/account/api-keys
- Are you building a #web3 project?
List it on mynf.team 🚀
- Hi everyone! 👋
mynfteam just had its biggest update yet!
- a huge UI overhaul;
- architectural changes;
- new landing page providing exposure to all content posted on the platform;
- new roles added: Bot Dev, Back-End Dev, Mobile Dev, UI Designer, UX Designer, 3D Artist, HR;
- new socials added to profile, project, and gig forms;
- introduced dashboard;
- sign-in is now possible via a modal when not signed in and attempting to like a project;
This update enables us to ship and iterate faster.
More announcements on upcoming features and collabs coming soon 👀
We've begun our visual identity change as well ✨
As some of you might know, mynfteam is accompanied by a story.
You'll learn more about it soon.
Check out mynfteam here:
https://mynf.team
All feedback is welcome!
- Could do this for hours 😌
mynfteam landing page had an update
the Pathfinder nft can now be delightfully interacted with
- Early mynfteam users will receive a Pathfinder NFT.
Snapshot and Pathfinder utility will be announced soon 👀
- gm
- gm
- Looking at Ceramic and SpruceID to implement decentralized identity login for mynfteam.
Would love to know if and how someone did it.
- Hi everyone! I guess I'm on @lenster.lens now.
I'm a web3 dev working on building mynfteam, it's a platform that connects builders, creators and enthusiasts willing to enter and build in the web3 space.
Looking forward to meet new frens here 💜