Since today's meta is sharing Farcaster invite stories, here's some tough love for consumer founders: you're probably not schlepping enough.

If you strategy to get more users is to open your code editor, you're avoiding the actual hard thing of talking to users and then having them silently reject you after a few days.

The first version of our Farcaster app didn't work on mobile and didn't have follows, at replies, native image uploads, etc.

Go talk to potential users. A lot.

https://paulgraham.com/schlep.html

throwback to the old old days of farcaster from May 2022 - @betashop.eth was one of the first batch of people i recommended to dan as he was looking for more early users.

dan did hustle and talk to a lot of people to cold start farcaster’s early community

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all time replyke                                                          keep shitcaster

there was no msging, no channels, but leaderboard and NFT sections!

It's like watching the birth of an OG.
If you don't mind, I'd love to hear about the old days when you get a chance.😂

Jason spoke highly of you in a space on tavern two weeks ago 
Said how you kept hammering on him to join Fc 
He said he was a bit skeptical at first though but glad he’s full here now 😂
You’re one of the GOATs in this space fr

It was very interesting to hear how much passion and initial effort you put into community building. These stories are always inspiring

2 years later @betashop.eth the reason there's rapid increase in engagement on warpcast

How much Moxie did you get for that interaction? 🟢

I love being able to read these conversations 
it's a little piece of everyone's past and brings back great memories when you first got into warpcast.

It's fun to see how the dots are connected

Exciting to see the early days of farcaster and the hustle behind building the community.