EndFTs

Inspiration

We 🏃 have 😤 spent a 📅 lot of 💰👏 time ⌚ on Twitter 😩 recently. 🕛🕛 Everyone 👬 keeps mentioning NFTs in my 👨 comments section, and I 🌷🙇 don't 🚫 know 💭 what 🤷 they are. So, 😂 we 🏻 decided 🤔👯 to 🗣 undertake a 👌⚡ distributed financial venture and 🍞👏 explore the vast frontiers of 😳 Web3 and 🚨💰 the ✝🐗 Metaverse. We found 🔎👁 out that 👉😐 we 🐶 really 👈😆 enjoy ☺💋 other 🏳 people's 👨👶 NFTs!

What it does

Our Twitter bot, @EndFTs, gets activated whenever you reply to braggadocios NFT bros who can't stop flaunting their newest Bored Ape collection. It will capture their precious NFT profile picture, and mint it as our unique Non Fungible NFT. Then it retweets a link to our newest, one-of-a-kind artwork, tagging said crypt-bro in order to shame them.

How we built it

We connect to tweepy API to listen across Twitter for the bot's username. When tagged, we find the parent tweet, go to the user's profile, and "steal" their picture. We then post this to imgur, then upload the imgur link in a .json to web3.storage. Then we mint a new NFT using our PolygonScan smart contract (on $ETH) and reply to the tweet with a link.

Challenges we ran into

There really isn't good documentation for web3 / blockchain builds. I'm still trying to learn about providers, nodes, and networks and I never saw a good answer for how I should calculate my gas for a transaction ton. It almost seems like early adopters of this technology want to keep the knowledge exclusive and protected by layers and layers of jargon so that they can continue to profit off our collective awe and deference.