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Some reflections on @betrmint day one, as promised: ICYMI, we ran our first game yesterday and it was a wild ride! Two hours. Hundreds of spins. Thousands of mints. One spinning neon wheel, spitting out memecoin prizes left right and center. And now that we’ve launched on @base, receiving such an incredible outpouring of support and enthusiasm, there is only one logical next step: We’re moving to Solana! Just kidding, here’s a recap of our day one The Good: - Over 3,500 people added the miniapp in 24 hours. Amazing, thank you. (And not bad for 37 users?) - I bought more $RUNNER to double the prize pool from what @darkoh.eth contributed, and it still got fully claimed within the game window. Y’all are (not-so) secret degens. - We received tons of support from base folks and purple app friends—minting, sharing, posting. That part meant a lot, thank you. 💛 Especially @jacy, @0xl, @apex777.eth, @dish and @proxystudio.eth, @jessepollak, Darkoh and @rachelw. [cont below…]

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- Our featured creator @rachelw saw over 2,000 mints on her podcast featuring @lucanetz, and earned about 0.4 ETH in creator rewards via @pods. (I think) she was genuinely blown away, and this is what it’s all about — leveraging a little bit of degen energy to meaningfully help fund creators! - $RUNNER community was thrilled too. Token even pumped 25% yesterday… Coincidence? Not saying it is. Not saying it’s not. - Feedback overall was v positive! People loved the retro neon aesthetic I designed, and more than one person said the game felt addictive and sticky in the best way. - As promised from the outset in our tokenomics doc, we claimed the first few days worth of creator rewards from Clanker, used half the ETH to market buy more $BETR, and sent the earned $BETR to our prize vault for future games. We want to play long-term games with long term people. [cont…]

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The Could-Be-Better: - We did encounter a few early bugs that had never appeared during testing: some mints didn’t trigger spins, the miniapp didn’t launch properly from the directory, and desktop mode had issues (possibly related to the new Warpcast wallet rollout.) BUT everyone was very patient, and @netnose squashed them all in prod pretty quickly! 💪 After that, the app ran smoothly. - We refunded ETH to anyone who didn’t get a spin, but they still got the NFT edition. - Some pages in the app are a little text-heavy still. - Managing expectations around a live token while also focused on finding pmf for the app it is meant to bootstrap can be tricky! [cont…]

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That's huge , talk about a proof of concept!

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that is a stellar success for a creator right out of the gate! 2000 mints, wow, did you create a gamified new distribution channel...? 💜

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