Founders

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

Instead of asking "what problem should I solve?" ask "what problem do I wish someone else would solve for me?"

That's why my startup for Farcaster is Highlights from GM Farcaster and trending on Airstack.

I often get lost in the sea of casts and end up missing the most valuable ones.