Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
Why would you build on Farcaster — frames, actions, clients — if Merkle / Warpcast will just clone it if successful? 1. Outside of trading (Coinbase, Uniswap), there's no successful (at-scale, revenue generating) crypto-based business today. 2. The biggest constraint for all crypto app growth is users. There are not enough people using / "in" crypto today. The market needs to expand based on increasing the amount of consumer utility provided. 3. Our goal with Farcaster (and Warpcast) is to get enough scale where developers are able to build meaningful businesses without having to onboard more people to Farcaster and/or crypto themselves. 4. Separately, if your product is really a just a feature of another product, your best bet at building as a business around it is finding the Top 1% power users of said feature and giving them as many bells, whistles and knobs so they are willing to pay you. 5. We actively try to support other Farcaster apps in the ecosystem...
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nintynick.eth
@nintynick.eth
Option 1. Ruthlessly build for users, including bulldozing developers Option 2. Treat developers like customers, and help developers reach users as the first party interaction I don’t think you believe in the ecosystem developers enough to trust them with (2), so you are alienating them with (1) I get it, but it seems to rely on a strategy of high short-term developer churn, and growing a loyal developer base again once you hit scale
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@accountless.eth
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