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We jumped on farcaster frames right when they came out and were one of the first to have a full application experience in one. All the basic functionality of outposts is available in our frame (signing up, getting the NFT and reading every digest).", "hidden": true, "question": "Explain your project's consumer-centric approach and how it innovatively uses Farcaster Frames to enhance user experience", "questionId": 2}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Well one of the very first use cases people seemed to enjoy with frames was reading paragraph content inside them, which makes sense as a nice way to read longer form content when already on social media. However what we really specialise in is personalisation, so we took that idea of reading a newsletter but making it so that it is entirely unique to each user. And as I mentioned, at the time we launched it I'm not sure there was a more complex farcaster frame. ", "hidden": true, "question": "Describe how your project uses Farcaster Frames in a novel or unique way to solve a consumer problem or create new opportunities.", "questionId": 3}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "As I mentioned we've onboarded 18k users to outposts and every single one of those users has had a unique NFT minted on polygon. Then we also built our referral system on polygon so bonus NFTs are minted with polygon also. It's all worked so smooth we haven't touched it since we built the first implementation.", "hidden": true, "question": "Describe how your project functions independently on Polygon PoS", "questionId": 4}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "Other", "hidden": true, "question": "Select from the provided categories or specify other if none of these are applicable", "questionId": 5}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "The team originally came together from a DAO called DXdao where we were building governance systems. When the DAO broke up a little over a year ago we spun out and pivoted to building outposts. We pivoted to outposts because we saw a problem with information overload in web3 and wanted to build a more consumer facing app that could improve people's digital lives. ", "hidden": true, "question": "Describe your team's relevant expertise in developing in Web3 and (if applicable) with Farcaster Frames.", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We've not updated our farcaster frames base functionality for a long time so there is a lot we'd like to do. \nOver 60% of our users have come through referrals which are handled through our web app. We'd love to make this work in farcaster frames since it's an inherently social activity and is a perfect use case for frames. It also drives a lot of transactions on polygon.\nSuccesful referrals also get users bonuses in our seasonal referrals so it would make sense to also develop a frame where users could see and share their seasonal rewards via a frame. \nBeyond those new features we'd of course also love to just improve our existing frame to make it more performant and easier to use. ", "hidden": true, "question": "Please provide key milestones with budget for integrating Farcaster Frames and developing your application. You can link to a spreadsheet outlining this information.", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We have a major update coming out this month that will greatly improve the quality of our digests as well as the number of communities on outposts (2k -> ~8k communities). So we are hoping this improvement in digest quality will help. \nWe also have plans for onboarding more community admins on to outposts so they can better amange their community news being distributed through the newsletter. With this we'd hope to see more of a push from communities to get their users staying up to date with projects through outposts. ", "hidden": true, "question": "What is your plan for driving user adoption of your application", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Our peak growth was reaching around 6,000 new users a month so I'd use that historical data as a minimum and say that each onboarded user would produce roughly 2-3 txs from onboarding to referrals and seasonal campaigns. 6000 users * 3 txs = 18,000 txs a month", "hidden": true, "question": "Describe how your project will increase DAA and transaction volume on Polygon PoS.  Provide estimates on the expected volumes over the next 60 days.", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Since relaunching in February of this year we've gained 18,347 new users. We've also had a large number of partnerships since then (Guild, Zerion, Push, Degen, bebop, dapplist, cowswap and more). We also maintain an open rate of over 30% for our newsletter which is very healthy. ", "hidden": true, "question": "If applicable, describe any existing user base, partnerships, or traction your project has achieved. Include metrics if available.", "questionId": 10}, {"type": "dropdown", "answer": "Yes", "hidden": true, "question": "Do you understand and agree to complete Gitcoin's KYC process before processing payments?  All grantees receiving more than $15K will be required to complete KYC/KYB.", "questionId": 11}], "project": {"id": "0x8d9820a28e09d60e55bc39c3e0f7cebe50f9d292bb391a48438b5de9935eabec", "title": "Outposts", "logoImg": "bafkreiakqhcop5yp4yrfciaafow656mwktpwopsg7bksys5qip752il7lu", "metaPtr": {"pointer": "bafkreihuu7h5g5qvnzotn35wufxon3ubm253fgsrj4lti2wh2oy4g7o4ze", "protocol": "undefined"}, "website": "https://outposts.io", "bannerImg": "bafkreiamcjcmavqtnw3lubvljapzwnt2zqo74c6uqaxzgwjtu5tf34ddsu", "createdAt": 1727773325629, "userGithub": "", "credentials": {}, "description": "Outposts is a personalized web3 newsletter. Readers sign up, we mint them a unique Explorer NFT on polygon and then analyze their wallet. From this we find all the communities they have interacted with. Then twice a week they get a digest with all the recent news from the web3 projects they care about. We also have a farcaster frame you can use to sign up and read the digests. 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