Founders

ecosystems like eth op and farcaster will trick you into thinking you’ve made a compelling product because there’s a “kumbaya let’s all win together mentality”. 

Use my app I’ll use yours!
Use my app and I’ll give u a boost here with my large fc following!
Use my chain I’ll use your app!

it’s negative signal and will keep you from the truth: you’re product isn’t compelling enough

Two founder lessons:

Farcaster is a good place to get early users. Not going to solve all your problems, but can help get you started. e.g. Unlonely

Building your brand as a gadfly can attract attention in the near term, but suboptimal in the long term.

A lot of users now I believe especially the new ones will be stressed when they see this moxie extravaganza. I believe a good way also to help them is every week there will be a reward like caster of week. This caster has to have less than 100 followers and it benefits with:

1) boost at cast

2) Autofollowed for 3 days by the most active casters here