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Announcing the Farcaster Builder Bootcamp: Funding the Future of Mini-Apps & African Innovation

From the We Them Media Paragraph, July 30, 2025. Copied here in full from the original post.

⚠️ Update (Sept 1, 2025):

We have decided to pivot the Farcaster Builder Bootcamp into the We Them Media: Content Creator Bootcamp (MVP).

Instead of building new apps, this new structure centers creators as the drivers of adoption – experimenting with mini-apps, telling stories, and amplifying culture.

👉 The new start date is TBD (timeline will be shared by the end of September).

In the meantime, we’re putting our energy into internal restructuring and covering ETH Safari & ETH Accra over the next 20 days.

Thank you to everyone who registered, volunteered, and partnered with us for the Builder Bootcamp. Your energy and support remain central to this new direction. This isn’t a cancellation – it’s a realignment. 💜


We Them Media is a pan-African media DAO building a more inclusive Web3 future by building a platform for Black and African voices around the globe. We’re excited to announce the Farcast Builder Bootcamp, a 4-week virtual sprint to onboard and empower developers–especially across the African continent and diaspora–to build innovative mini-apps on Farcaster.

🗓️ Dates: September 1–27, 2025🌍

Goal: Onboard 100–150 builders and ship 20–25 mini-apps that bring new communities onchain

We’ve spent the last three years meeting the people pushing Ethereum forward from Africa to the U.S., Europe, Asia, and the Caribbean. From Nigeria to Ghana, Ethiopia to Japan, Thailand, Vietnam, and the Bahamas–our 60+ interviews and IRL activations have shown us the power of media to onboard communities.

Now, it’s time to build.

Mini-apps (on Telegram, Farcaster, Line, and beyond) are quickly becoming the dominant method of onchain interaction. We want to:

  • Give new and emerging builders the opportunity to learn, build, and connect

  • Help devs leverage this new wave to gain visibility and build reputation

  • Cultivate a new generation of contributors and innovators for our DAO

Whether or not the Purple app eats the world, smart contract-enabled apps are coming. We want our people on the frontier–experimenting, collaborating, and pushing the needle forward.

  1. Mini-Apps for DAOs & Governance Tools that enhance collective decision-making, coordination, or treasury management. Best for builders interested in DAO tooling, multisigs, and coordination UX.

  2. Mini-Apps for Community Engagement & Social Tools Social dApps, onboarding solutions, and gamified participation systems. Ideal for social devs, Farcaster tinkerers, and culture builders.

  3. Mini-Apps for the Creator Economy & Public Goods Apps empowering creators, NFTs, open-source projects, and public goods funding. Perfect for creatives, builders, and supporters of onchain culture.

  4. Vibe Coding & AI Agents Track Exploring how developers can merge creative coding with AI-driven agents to build intuitive, playful, and automated mini-app experiences on Farcaster. A sandbox for experimental coders and AI-curious builders.

  5. We Them Media Track Exploring how We Them Media can surface its content in new ways, engage audiences with mini-apps, and imagine new tools for a community-driven media network to thrive across platforms. Ideal for contributors, media devs, and fans of We Them Media.

  6. Open Mini-App Innovation Experimental or cross-category projects that push the limits of Farcaster and DAOs. Wildcard space for unique ideas and first-time builders.

💰 4.5 ETH in bounties and support:

  • 3 ETH for flagship app bounties (DAO tools, media innovation, creator infrastructure)

  • 1.5 ETH for beginner-friendly and micro bounties

📣 Promotion & Community Support

  • Weekly community calls, mentorship, and check-ins

  • X Spaces panels + Discord Vibe Sessions

  • Live speaker sessions streamed to 500+ viewers

  • Highlight clips distributed across YouTube, X, Instagram, TikTok, Zora, and Farcaster

  • 50+ attendees per space and 100+ replays expected per panel

  • 20K+ combined reach across our community partners

All projects will be judged on usability, originality, execution, alignment with track goals, and cultural relevance. Bonus points for community value.

Creative Alchemy, NounsDAO Africa, Hussle Yangu, Everybody Needs Base, Aquari, BuildaDAO, NFTs Africa, Devdorm, Let’s Build a DAO, and more. We’re working closely with Web3Bridge’s 13th cohort, and dev networks across Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, and Ethiopia.

Confirmed volunteers, speakers, and supporters include:

  • Sirsu, early Farcaster contributor

  • Bixbite & Mike Good from Lil Nouns

  • Purple DAO community members and mentors to be confirmed

  • Grow our contributor network and DAO participation

  • Support new builders and tell the story of their journey

  • Explore what mini-app infrastructure looks like for We Them Media

  • Help prototype tools the creator economy is still waiting for

We’ve helped 200+ people get their first wallet and enter Web3 in the last 3 years. This is about giving them new ways to stay involved–and surfacing the builders who will shape what’s next.

This Bootcamp is also a testbed for:

  • Generating contributors aligned with our mission

  • Identifying problems in creator infrastructure

  • Imagining new ways for communities to operate autonomously using mini-apps

We have yet to raise funding for this Bootcamp, but we’re incredibly energized by the momentum and know the Web3 community will rally to support the vision. We’re inviting aligned protocols, DAOs, and ecosystem partners to step in as sponsors, mentors, and community builders to help make this real.

We’re building this together – and there’s a role for everyone.

Whether you're a developer, mentor, speaker, DAO contributor, or community organizer, this is your invitation to help shape a more inclusive Web3 ecosystem.

Here’s how you can get involved:

Let’s build the next wave of Web3–together.

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We are actively inviting mission-aligned protocols, DAOs, and ecosystem projects to join us as sponsors and collaborators.

This is a first-of-its-kind activation focused on empowering African developers, creating public goods, and producing meaningful mini-apps that push Ethereum and Farcaster forward.

Sponsors will receive:

  • Track-level recognition and branding across livestreams, panels, and assets

  • Access to a network of 100+ emerging African builders

  • Inclusion in post-event content including podcasts, recap videos, and demo day highlights

  • The opportunity to co-create bounties, mentor teams, and surface use cases for your tools

  • Visibility across our multi-platform campaign with 20K+ reach through We Them Media and our partners

  • A chance to support one of the most culturally grounded and future-forward hackathons on Ethereum this year

We’re seeking track sponsors (1 ETH), bounty sponsors (0.25–0.5 ETH), and core supporters to help us fund media, mentorship, and operational execution.

We have yet to raise funding for this Bootcamp, but we’re confident the community will rally behind this effort. Your support helps us continue to document, build, and empower the next generation of Web3 builders–especially those who have historically been excluded from innovation cycles.

🪙 Interested in sponsoring? Contact maceowhatley@gmail.com

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