A while back I created an NFT collection with 11,544 unique images, around the meme of "buying a Lambo" when the markets go up. It took me a great deal of effort to learn how to create this collection, host the images and metadata, and write a smart contract on Polygon for minting them.
However, when it came time to build the dApp, I ran into a lot of problems and could not figure out how to solve them even after extensive research. And then my PC died and I lost the passwords to the website and twitter and discord I created for LAMBOWs.
I've no interest in investing further time into getting this project off the ground, so I have decided that instead of attempting to build a community and then sell these LAMBOWs for 5 MATIC each, I am simply going to lower the price to mint a LAMBOW to zero and allow anyone to mint a maximum of 5 LAMBOWs, directly from the smart contract while having to pay only gas fees, which are minimal on Polygon.
So, by the time you read this post, you will be able to visit the contract and mint 5 LAMBOWs. When they are all gone, the holders of the NFTs will be the LAMBOW community, and you can decide where LAMBOWs goes if anywhere at all. I am also willing to transfer ownership of the contract to another, or renounce it, as I have something else I wish to work on now and cannot commit any further to this project.
I would advise that you get yourself 0.3 MATIC and go and mint yourself 5 of these, as who knows, perhaps in the future they might be worth something - especially the rare ones. If you do mint yourself 5 of these LAMBOWS, I ask that you do not be greedy and mint another 5, but instead share this post with your followers so they can get themselves 5 too. The more distributed the tokens are, the greater chance of them doing well on the market. And I am happy to return the preminted LAMBOWS in my wallet, of which there are around 220, to whomever is elected to inherit the contract, or I can send them to any who cannot afford the gas fees for minting.
How to Mint 5 NFT's Directly From the Contract
Step 1
Go here.
Step 2
Make sure your wallet is connected to the Polygon network and click on "connect to web3."
Step 3
Connect your wallet and then scroll down to the second section named "mint." In the payableAmount section, input 0. This is the fee you will be paying for the NFT's. In the mintAmount section, input 5, which is the maximum amount one can mint at a time I have set on the contract.
Step 4
Click "write" and then sign the transaction, paying the gas fee.
Step 5
Go to OpenSea.io and sign in with your wallet. You should now have 5 LAMBOWs, and if you click on them and press "refresh metadata" in a few minutes you will be able to see which ones you got and how rare they are, and put them for sale on the market if you wish.
It is that simple. So go and do it, and then go and brag about how you now own a LAMBOW.
If anyone wants to build a website, twitter, discord, or all three, for the LAMBOWs community, then reach out to me with your Polygon address and I will recuse ownership of the contract to you, so that you will be able to add the necessary links to the LambowsNFT Opensea page, which only the owner of the contract can do.
Furthermore, if anyone wants a LAMBOW but has no gas on Polygon, I have some preminted ones I have to be rid of for equity's sake, and I have a little MATIC left, so reply here with your MATIC address and I will forward you one.
Perfect