HuntTown

Farcaster

Hi @linda and @farcaster team,

Hunt Town has been supporting Huntzy, a Web3 onboarding club in South Korea focused on complete beginners. It’s a competitive program:

S1: 51 selected out of 222
S2: 70 / 221
S3: 81 / 242
S4: 78 / 217

As part of onboarding, we bring all members onto Farcaster using paid invite codes — typically spending $200–$300 per season just for this. Yesterday, thanks to community members like @luckyjerry, @kelly-k, and @to’s friends, we were able to use some free codes as well.

At Hunt Town, we’ve focused on bringing in “outsiders” — users who are often overlooked but are deeply enthusiastic about Web3. They may not seem central now, but we believe they are key to broader adoption and long-term growth. Our builders host Brick Side Chat, a bi-weekly online meetup and project showcase. Next week marks our 50th session — nearly two years without a single break. We’d love to invite your team to join and experience the energy firsthand. We’re confident you’ll see the value these communities bring to Farcaster.

We also spend about $20,000 worth grant pool (our own budget) to the Hunt Town builders by using Clap and Builder Grant. Our builders find good Farcaster builders/content and give claps for them, and at the end of the month, these grant pool distributes to both - Clap receivers and Clappers.

At Mint Club, we're building token family where anyone can build child token from an existing erc20 token. We think keep issuing new tokens on pump dot fun like platform is not sustainable. We can position this platform for some people who love their own token, so want to expand their token ecosystem by injecting child tokens/NFTs from their token, rather than issuing completely new one. 20,000+ active users are using Mint Club and they especially love our airdrop tool. But recently the trending logic suddenly changes and suddenly Mint Club's ranking dropped huge, but it's ok. We still love Farcaster mini apps. 

Just a bit of honest, emotional feedback from the Hunt Town and Mint Club community. I just wanted to make a little shout out so that the Farcaster core team knows what we're doing.

We know @linda and @ted work so hard to make this community valuable. We hope that at some point we can invite you guys on our fun Brick Side Chat.

Thanks,
Project7.

Huntzy S2 Ideathon record - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_CSxj82_Hc
49th Brick Side Chat record - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7kosG9-oSs

Where Farcaster puts freshly onboarded Hunt Towners and all other new accounts 

I get why they have no spam label (2) yet as there isn't a lot of data to base it on but can't new people just start outside more replies? Please

$hamster /hamster 
martinvr.eth 
deploy.degen.eth

Yeah, I think this is a serious newbie onboarding issue on the current Farcaster client. Newbies start out from spam accounts by default until a “named” account shout-out for them 🤔

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👷🏻‍♂️hardhat at hunt.town & mint.club

Yeah, just give newbies the benefit of the doubt, or just analyse their cast before hiding it.
But imho they could simply do with a "if client is farcaster" -> not hidden

makes more sense to hide new accounts created in other ways as they are more likely bots