urls.art makes it easy to create apps — but not just any apps. These are tokenized miniapps: small, functional web apps generated from a simple prompt, each launched with its own ERC-20 token on Base.
Write a prompt like “clone Flappy Bird” or “draw with a rainbow dog,” and urls.art spins up a working app, wraps it in a frame, and mints a token on a bonding curve — all in seconds.
What started as a way to tokenize URLs has evolved into a frictionless, social playground for onchain apps. Every miniapp is both a product and a market — something you can play, share, and trade. And because they’re built on a bonding curve, each one has a native economy from the start.
It’s fast, flexible, and weird in the best way. A spaceship boss battle one day, a psychedelic dog drawing tool the next. Every app is live at urls.art, framed, and tradable through its automatically-generated token. It's like if Zora, GPT, and Degen had a baby — and it shipped onchain.
But there was one problem left to solve: none of it was permanent.
What Happens When the Server Bill Doesn’t Get Paid?
A lot of the coolest stuff built online doesn’t last. Hosting expires, bills go unpaid, people move on. It’s not malicious — just how things are. But for creators, it can feel like your work evaporated.
“One of the core complaints with frame apps has been their permanence. Folks will launch a cool frame, but shortly thereafter they’ll stop paying the server bill and the app is gone.”
That’s where the team made a shift. They decided to bake permanence into the product.
Every app created on urls.art would now be uploaded to Arweave, using ArDrive Turbo. Which means: once it’s live, it stays live — forever.
Permanent Doesn’t Have to Be Complicated
The team knew about Arweave. But building it while being a Base project felt heavy at first.
Then they found AR.IO — the infrastructure layer that makes using Arweave as simple as pointing to a URL. It’s also what powers ArDrive Turbo, the tool urls.art now uses to instantly archive each miniapp.
“ArDrive Turbo is just dead simple to use,” they said. “The dev experience + docs are great. Getting your hash immediately is a great help for our user flow.”
With Turbo + AR.IO, every creation on urls.art gets permanent storage, instantly accessible from a custom gateway, and it works seamlessly for Base projects. No one has to think about hosting again.
As well, Turbo now supports ETH on Base! That means Based builders can pay for uploads to Arweave from their same dev wallet.
And because urls.art runs the custom AR.IO gateway, they get control of the experience too — branded URLs, fast performance, and future customizations like app-specific subdomains (Hello, ArNS!).
ArNS: A Name That Sticks
urls.art is integrating ArNS, Arweave Name System. Instead of sharing long hashes or even generic URLs, each app could get its own clean, memorable domain — like spacebat_urls.art or drawdog_urls.art.
“Yes — think per-app undernames to give each app their own human-readable domain,”
These aren’t just vanity names. ArNS domains are programmable, permanent, and can serve as digital identities for people, apps, or content. They help make the permanent cloud feel a little more human — and a lot more useful.
Build Fast. Keep What Matters.
urls.art doesn’t claim to be building the future of the web. They’re just helping people make cool stuff, fast and profitable. But what they’re doing — with help from AR.IO — means that creativity doesn’t have to be disposable.
You can still make fast things, weird things, fun things. But now, they stick around. They become part of a permanent internet — one where your work doesn’t vanish the next time a server goes offline.
“Honestly I don’t think folks have grasped the permanence of Arweave. I feel great knowing that the time our users spend on our platform making apps will never go to waste — their apps are on Arweave, forever, even if I forget to pay our server bills.”
That’s not a grand vision. It’s just a practical one to let the fun, and mini-apps continue.
