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I Thought Building a Simple Web3 Tool Was the Hard Part (It Wasn’t)

DEV Community·john Smith·6 months ago
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A few months ago I started building a small tool on Solana.

Nothing crazy.

Just something that lets you:

create a token

attach metadata

add liquidity

and actually use it

That was the idea.

Keep it simple.

The Plan Was Pretty Straightforward

I didn’t want to build another “platform”.

No custody.

No custom smart contracts I fully control.

Just an interface that prepares transactions and lets users sign everything in their wallet.

Basically:

backend prepares → wallet signs → chain executes

In my head, that felt clean and simple.

The First Reality Check

The blockchain part wasn’t the hard part.

Creating a token? fine

Sending a transaction?…

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