A creator platform live in eight weeks, with a business model by the second release.
Flur · California, United States
- 8 weeks to launch, across two iterations of three and five weeks
- $1 editions: a creator can sell a thousand collectibles at a dollar each
- Minutes to onboard a creator, with invite codes and Twitter sign-up
What is Flur and what did Bushido build?
Flur is a Patreon-style platform where creators turn posts into collectible NFT editions, for example 1,000 at $1 each. Bushido designed and built the web application, smart contracts and backend, and took it live in eight weeks, in two iterations, with two developers and a delivery manager.
The same brief, run today.
| Then | Now | |
|---|---|---|
| Time | 8 weeks | 6 to 8 weeks |
| Team | 2 developers and a delivery manager | A product lead and a builder with Solidity, each with agents |
| How it went / What is delivered | A three-week release, then five weeks of rework: the retweet claim was open to anyone, with no business model. |
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Bushido’s estimate, the same brief run in 2026. The “then” column is what happened.
The problem
Creators struggle to monetise their communities and have no way to track and reward early supporters. A long-term partner brought the idea, with one rule: launch fast, in iterations of a few weeks.
The solution
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Iteration 1 in three weeks: retweet claims.
No wallet, gas or crypto: the NFT was minted to the user's Twitter account, movable to a wallet.
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A collection of their own for every creator.
A Collection Factory contract deploys an ERC-1155 collection on Polygon per creator.
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Iteration 2 in five weeks: donations, not retweets.
Anyone could claim and Twitter’s API pricing made retweets unsustainable.
The result
| Iteration 1 | Iteration 2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Who could claim | Anyone who retweeted, fan or not | Supporters who donate to the creator |
| How a claim worked | Retweet a link | Donate in ETH, DUST, wETH, MATIC or USDC; one NFT per dollar |
| Business model | None | A configurable 10% fee on each donation |
Stack, team and facts
Lean MVP in eight weeks.
Creator economy, NFTs, Web3
Iteration 1: 3 weeks
Iteration 2: 5 weeks
2023
2 developers, 1 delivery manager
Web application
Smart contract with backend system
Typescript, Solidity, Next.js, Node.js, Prisma, Moralis, Postgres, Alchemy, AWS
What made you happiestworking with us?
"I've worked with a lot of people who can follow a scope of work but not improvise. Bushido is different. Bushido has so much collective knowledge that they can anticipate challenges I can't see, integrate them from before any code is written, and ultimately save time and money."
Jacob. S.
CEO of Flur.xyz
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Questions
Questions people ask about Flur.
How quickly did Flur ship?
In eight weeks: a first iteration of three weeks and a second of five.
How do creators get onboarded?
In minutes, with an invitation code and sign-up through the Twitter API.
Why put creator support on-chain at all?
The supporter holds the collectible, not one company's database, so supporters are decoupled from the platform the creator publishes on.
Yours is next.
Same team, sharper tools. Tell us where you are and we will tell you what it takes (scope, shape and a timeline we would actually hold ourselves to) on a 30-minute call with a builder.