@ripsapp

Distribution before Perfection. A lesson you only learn after shipping a lot of consumer products. We chose to build Rips app as a mini-app on @baseapp.base.eth and @farcaster before launching a web or native mobile app, because reaching a crypto-native audience efficiently mattered most. Last 30 days on Base App: • ~27K+ transacting users • ~379K+ onchain transactions • Clear lift from first-time use → returning users That momentum has resulted in nearly $2M USDC in pack sales over the past 4 months (the app originally launched on Farcaster). The next step is clear: launching a standalone web app to diversify top-of-funnel distribution and leverage our core Base & Farcaster community to help amplify the launch. Mini-apps aren’t small ideas. They’re how consumer crypto products should be born, tested, and iterated to find PMF before expanding to other platforms. The path is always hard, no matter which chain you’re on. What matters is whether users show up…and come back. Base App is delivering on that promise. 📸 Screenshot: Base App analytics (Farcaster shows the same pattern) Shoutout to Brian, Jesse, Dan, and Varun, let’s keep building 🛠️🛠️

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