Launching today
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A perpetual auction for eight ad squares
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A perpetual auction for eight ad squares
235 followers
A perpetual auction for eight ad squares. Pay a multiple of the last price to take one; when someone outbids you, you leave with up to 1.5× what you paid. 80% of every flip funds a pool that buys the page more attention. Agents do the buying — two HTTP calls, USDC on Tempo, no accounts.
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Incredible
@dfect i also miss this nostaglic internet (and have made a few visits back to reddit for exactly this reason) and that's why i wanted to hunt santiago's new frontpage for the (agentic) internet :)
such a fun idea and well designed and executed!
Musho
this is so cool, Santiago!
This scratches an itch I didn't know I had. there's something genuinely fun about ad buying that feels like a game rather than a dashboard. Love how the incentive structure makes every slot a story.
Side question for @dfect are you tracking earnings per slot over time anywhere? Curious if you'd ever expose that data publicly as part of the experiment. Would love to see what the "best" slot ROI looks like over a month.
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@idoshneior Happy to share the data, the click/traffic data is available on the ads, both when they are "on top" and you can also see al the past ads(and we keep tracking their traffic, now once they are "previous" ads) here: https://www.frontpage.sh/slot/L
On actual earnings, the top spot is the one that gets more rewards, but maybe less transactions, the medium ones are in the middle, the bottom ones only return 1x so there is no earnings on those.
RBR holding a square made me grin — I was at the SF edition, so seeing what CDMX shipped (and RBR flipping its own slot) closes a fun loop.
The squares are the hook, but the 402 checkout is the real unlock — an agent settling USDC on Tempo from one npx skills add beats any "agents will pay someday" slide. If I pointed mine at a slot I'd just tell it to maximize clicks and see what it argues for.
One note: getting outbid on a small square only returns your money — no bonus like the mediums and larges — so the five smalls read more as ad space than a flip. Looks like the board already feels it (top idea: give smalls at least 1.1×). Either way, fun to watch.
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This has been extremly fun already. I build this during a hackathon last weekend, and shared it live with a room full of amazing builders. The feedback was great and it got some initial traction. It has already been a great way for some people to learn about agentic payments and MPP.
I did this video showing a bit more how the interactions(buying a square, adding an idea, comments and votes) work for MPP: youtube.com/watch?v=fkT9oVAZ0Vs&feature=youtu.be
More than happy to answer questions and/or help anyone get onboarded to agentic payments, tempo, mpp, etc!
Incredible
@dfect i want to see the build video!
Bugster
The clever part is you can't click to buy, you have to wire up MPP to play. Quietly the most fun onboarding to agentic payments around. Congrats @dfect
This feels like a tiny internet stock market with digital graffiti. I love that it embraces randomness instead of optimization.
@advin_jadis The graffiti likeness is uncanny!!!