ARE YOU READY FOR THE FUTURE ?
👋 ,Hi, Sup, Welcome, to the Spree newsletter- we’ll be consistently dropping this newsletter biweekly on Tuesday mornings. If you’re reading this, that means we ❤️ u.
What to expect?
Content related to trends within Web3, education on NFT’s & Spree’s progress. 🚀🚀
What the hell is Spree?
Spree is a social creator tool merging physical and digital worlds through AR NFT creations.
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Imagine you're walking through Manhattan past the Empire State Building and you can experience the world through others’ lens. You open up Spree’s camera and can see all of the NFT creations geo-tagged to this location. You can purchase these creations and add them to your collection as well as immediately mint and tag your own creations to this location for others to experience.
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Built by three entrepreneurs that are curious & hopeful for an enhanced future powered by a digital lifestyle.
Adam Sarkis, Erin Magennis, and Michael Kirsanov
Our Story
Spree began as a vision to do one thing: to bridge people of many technologies and ideologies.
Our realization came from the awe of a most profound technology in front of us: blockchain, a shared consensus system where everybody transparently understands their neighbor. However, adoption and accessibility by laypersons was always a question for blockchain - until the past year. Digital assets in the forms of NFTs made their way into the mainstream. Coinbase underwent its IPO. Robinhood began allowing retail investors to participate in broader cryptocurrency markets (even if said retail investors didn’t own the underlying cryptocurrency). The pace for Web3 decentralized technologies was moving quick, but for us, not quick enough. We saw a fundamental opportunity to use the shifting global environment and really reinvent what our information ecosystem looks like - our world.
We started small by building a beta marker for curated NFT drops; on 4/20, we did a Pixel Blunt drop all units were completely claimed by our early supporter Discord community before the drop was more broadly and publicly shared. The Pixel Blunts live on secondary markets with a floor price of 2ETH and as high as 12ETH asking price.
Our next drop, The Chicago Way, our Discord community more than doubled, and 80% of the collection sold out within the first 45 minutes. We quickly realized that alone, it wasn’t enough to perpetuate tokens in intermittent drops. We needed to encompass not just one or five NFT projects, but *all* NFT projects.
And thus bringing us to present day: exploring network effects, gamification, and augmented reality to multiply the potential of every single NFT that exists out there — a technology network spree. We’re happy that you’re our neighbor as we grow.
Why?
Content creators don’t truly own their content and can’t fully monetize their audience → so we are empowering more people to be creators by being able to mint in the moment
We spend most of our entertainment time on our phone, yet all of the most popular NFT platforms are built only for a desktop experience → so we are building a native app
Humans are inherently social, yet NFT platforms are marketplace focused and users have to go to separate apps (Twitter, discord, etc) to share their NFT updates socially → so we are building a social experience directly into buying and selling NFTs
There is a massive divide between the digital metaverse and our physical reality → so we are incorporating AR (augmented reality) to view NFTs from the digital metaverse pinned to our physical world
GenZ is the most digitally native generation, yet they are not participating in NFTs → so we are inviting them in and making Spree fit their budgets
What Spree Looks Like Right Now
First……… for early access to NFT drops and exclusive content.
In the Works
Creatively: Organizing a female photography capsule with various photography projects placed under one contract. Working with a clothing company to extend their brand to be digital forward.
Technically:
Fine-tuning location data + overall UI/UX
Do you want to play around w our beta products in the early dev stages? Cool -
Business Wise: we’ve been keeping out heads down grinding - we have began turning our energy back to investor meetings to raise a Pre-Seed round to allow us to continue to grow.
Who should we connect with? We like intros 😊
Our Asks:
We wanna meet some digital artists interested in getting started in the NFT space🎨
Intros to investors interested in Web3, blockchain, media, or entertainment 💰
Let’s Collab - show us your favorite app UX/designs you think we should explore- we wanna see what interests y’all visually 🤓
MATERIALS 4 NEWCOMERS
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Download MetaMask. Make an OpenSea account. Buy some $ETH
🔑MetaMask is your wallet/login.
🔑Opensea is the marketplace to view and purchase art
🔑Stay up to date and follow this NFT drop calendar
https://twitter.com/nftcal?s=21
🔑You can purchase $ETH directly from your MetaMask wallet
🔑How to setup MetaMask.
https://www.notion.so/WELCOME-TO-THE-FUTURE-b56f908aaa1d46968fab49efe19bbcdf
DOPE PROJECTS WE LIKE
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✅ Blocks Collection by HarveyMCM
https://opensea.io/collection/blocks1
✅ Fleet by Boris Pelcer
https://superrare.com/artwork-v2/fleeting-28190
✅ Sanjay Crew — continuous project with VERY active community
https://opensea.io/collection/sanjay
✅ Drive by Dave Krugman
https://opensea.io/collection/drive-dave-krugman
Follow Along! We would ❤️ if you invited 1 friend to follow along and/or connect with us— your support means everything to us. 🙏🏼
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✌️ THE SPREE TEAM