gm AMA — Farcaster, Warpcast, tech, etc.

Provided they're a success, what kind of timeline do you think is likely for Warpcast group chats being interoperable with other Farcaster apps as part of the Farcaster protocol?

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2025 at the earliest

Have to stay focused on finding the thing that drives DAU growth.

“what are the biggest pains for a user that if solved would make them wanna pay and invite more frens”

may lead to diff answers than “what will drive growth”

im not saying growth path is bad. i do think focusing on problem — leads to creative solutions.

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What do you think the biggest pains for a user are if solved would invite friends?

rn dependency on twitter 

- news breaks
- bots to drive numbers
- existing followers 
- users and friend they follow
- ‘link to twitter’ in places 
- … 

be cool to have this list. many are intuitive but staring at it as a set is different picture.

totally agree. many things u can’t solve and don’t want to. but knowing which may offer inklings or refine your intuition rn 

why i stress: in my past, we would get a goal, such as stop weapons from moving across a border. All of the solutions were creative, and most unexpected.

same at darpa. but there, slowly.

I’m skeptical that FC can beat Twitter on breaking news any time soon. What’s happening is their most. cf. Threads being downstream