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Samuel
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Reading some confidential information and all I can say is that what Farcaster is missing the most is a truely non crypto client. A client that goes back to first principles of what do current social media users miss and how can we communicate it effectively to them, that we have the solution. Warpcast is the 'everyone app' which channel focused onboarding may solve, but that's not here as of 2024-10-23 Supercast is the crypto users social app with the ecosystem tab and now wildcard who I thought would be that app being sunset recast is a nice mobile app client with translations, there's a client for the asian market, the degen community and butterfly for lens x farcaster as well as phaser and yup serving these cross platform communities. Drakula being tokenized TikTok (aka crypto user focused imo) Who's building the absolutely not a crypto client client? Would love to chat!
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Brian Li 🍊👾
@bli.eth
Agreed. I think the breakthrough app will be a channel-specific client either for a fandom (e.g. One Piece) or a college group. But two things need to happen: 1. Farcaster fees need to come down to $0 for about 10k users for it to make sense to build on channels. Without that, someone who has the go-to-market skills would never build on a protocol that could restrict their growth. 2. It needs to leverage some core benefit of crypto to justify building on complex decentralized infrastructure (the alternative is Firebase which is easy and free). My best guess here is something related to marketplaces and micropayments, which has become the dominant use case for crypto in gaming. I could imagine an app for Pokemon card collectors where you can show off your collection but have a built in marketplace. Or an app for college students to make goods/services (art, clothes, pastries, etc.) and sell them to their classmates. It would probably involve some kind of showing off (posting) coupled with transactions.
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Brian Li 🍊👾
@bli.eth
cc @zd for additional thoughts
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Samuel
@samuellhuber.eth
re 2: It's a dev thing. If you want 3rd party devs to build for you give them APIs and a good Developer Experience. we can argue how good farcaster is today, but not having risk of the api shutting down as Hubs can be self hosted is better then firebase in my eyes (not talking Warpcast API or out of protocol)
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Samuel
@samuellhuber.eth
the pokemon usecase could be on top of courtyard. discord but better because courtyard and p2p deals are right in app
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