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How I sold my first NFT ever ๐Ÿš€

100NFTs.xyz + Mistakes & Learnings

Prado ๐Ÿ”‘
Sep 9, 2022
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Essay of the week - Sold my first NFT this week ๐Ÿ™Œ

It was the last week of August, I was spending my Sunday chilling and had a couple of hours before India vs Pakistan match started.

I put out a tweet asking people to suggest me something to paint and the rest is history.

I ended up creating this ๐Ÿ‘† and you can read the entire story behind this NFT here

If you donโ€™t have the time to read it, itโ€™s alright. I created a screenshot essay of this story๐Ÿ‘‡

Art ๐Ÿ‘†
The Real Art #BehindTheStory

It took me an hour to draw the whole thing, but the storyโ€ฆ the story took more than a week ๐Ÿ™Œ

During the entire week, I had multiple thoughts and questions about this whole thing.

Should I make it an NFT or not?
What if no one buys?
What if people donโ€™t realise that the real art is not the drawing but the story behind it? My writing about the art is what they are paying for.

As I spent more time, I realised I was overthinking this. Just push it.

Then I had a thought what if I document all the experiments I do with NFTs?

Thatโ€™s when I came up with 100NFTs.xyz

Hereโ€™s what the 24 hours before my NFT launch looked like:

I had 3 things on my To-do list

  1. Build a website on wix.com for 100NFTs.xyz

  2. Write the #BehindTheStory on Mirror.xyz

  3. Create and publish the NFT of the Opensea Platform.

I donโ€™t code so I had to do everything with No-code.

I went to wix.com and made a simple text-based website.

I couldnโ€™t completely finish it because I was not sure about the copyโ€ฆ so I went to sleep and started working on it early in the morning.

6 hours before the launch:

I got a surprise offer of 50% from wix. I was like damn. thatโ€™s good.

I built the website and paid about โ‚น1000 for a year + free domain. Perf.

Then I spent the next couple of hours focusing on the story part and publishing it on Mirror as #BehindTheStory.

I wrote it and when I was publishing I got to know that they do it on optimism and not Eth. FML.

I wanted to make it available for anyone who has ETH on Ethereum mainnet. Now people have to transfer ETH to optimism blockchain and buy my free #BehindTheStory NFT (I think itโ€™s too much)

I wanted to people to join the Yellow Town holders-only Twitter group but now I have to figure something else out. Iโ€™ll be figuring this out later this weekend and will talk about how you can get into the main group.

Also, DM me to get on the private list ๐Ÿ™Œ

Next, make an NFT on Opensea.

I added all the details and then I got to know I have to make a collection. Made one of that, priced the NFT at 0.05 ETH (about $72) and baam publish

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Prado @pradologue
๐Ÿšจ My first ever NFT is out now ๐Ÿš€ Paint the town yellow.
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6:48 AM โˆ™ Sep 7, 2022
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After publishing everything, I started hitting up friends.

Few gave constructive feedback

I got more ideas for future products.

I texted a few friends as I wanted them to buy my first buyers. None of them supported it. Maybe itโ€™s the bear market.

I went to bed and realised I donโ€™t think anyone was going to buy it. Maybe I priced it too high. Maybe now was not the right time.

Then I got to know that the NFT is centralised. I quickly changed it.

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Prado @pradologue
I just realised that this NFT was on the Opensea server - Centralised. Just added the metadata to IPFS ๐Ÿš€
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2:13 PM โˆ™ Sep 7, 2022

I woke up the next morning with good energy in me. I wanted to celebrate that I took the plunge. I watched Top Gun Maverick and learned the best quote cause thatโ€™s exactly what I had done that day morning.

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Prado @pradologue
Don't think, Just do ๐Ÿ™Œ
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11:47 AM โˆ™ Sep 8, 2022

I woke up, had a big breakfast and went to work.

I thought I should lower the price. Maybe more people will be interested.

I lowered it to 0.02ETH ($32)

I think 7 mins before the listing gets over, my dear friend Lazypoet bought it.

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Prado @pradologue
Aaaaaaaand it's sold. Welcome to the yellow town @_lazypoet_ ๐Ÿš€
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6:33 AM โˆ™ Sep 8, 2022
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I have learned lots of things in the process. Most importantly that there were people who wanted me to fail on this one.

The experience was enriching.

I will be experimenting with more NFTs on 100NFTs.xyz

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Thank you for reading ๐Ÿ™Œ


10 interesting things about this week will be published later this weekend. Itโ€™ll be updated on the website but you wonโ€™t get it in your mail. Sorry and thnk you for understanding.


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