Colin

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How to get dealflow: ❌ networking, building personal value ✅ Dear [Recipient Name]

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Creative way to listen to a Paragraph article while scrolling FC

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Curry salmon for dinner. Stellar recipe: https://figandoliveplatter.com/30-minute-coconut-thai-salmon-curry/

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https://warpcast.com/colin/0x100a1cc9

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The Paragraph miniapp shows you a customized feed of all the great writing from your Farcaster followers. You can go from miniapp open to reading to subscribing to collecting in 30 seconds. You’ll also receive in-app notifications whenever you subscribe to someone & they publish a new post. No app switching needed

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Read the latest bangers published on /paragraph, directly in your feed

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Attended a coffee tasting experience ("komakase") in SF a few weekends ago. Tasted several different coffees, including three pourovers, a "1 and 1" and a spritz. Stellar experience and fantastic coffees overall

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We recently launched a large rebrand & redesign at /paragraph. I believe I've historically underrated good branding. When I asked users what they prefer about Mirror over Paragraph, they often said "the vibes". Hard to quantify and break down "vibes". The culture, the logo, the colors, the UX, the story? I think all of this feeds into an overarching brand. "Good brand" is impossible to measure directly but can manifest in better retention, higher user satisfaction, and ultimately "better vibes". Of course, good brand without a good product is useless, and focusing on solving a real problem is by far the most important thing to do, but I now believe a good brand can help elevate good products. I'm not yet convinced on if it was worth it, especially for early stage companies, but I do believe I've historically underrated it.

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Always cool to hear about what originally led someone to Farcaster

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Good article and an interesting angle. In a world where writers move away from paywalls so their writing can get discovered & sourced by LLMs, what do the economics look like? How does high-value but accessible content get rewarded?

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Miniapp related things I’m incredibly bullish on: - letting users do as much as possible before requiring an auth - using miniapp context for magical onboarding (eg, show their avatar or their username) - using FC social graph: bootstrap immediate network effects - seamless transfer from miniapp elsewhere: if users login to your webapp a week later, they should be able to pick up where they left off

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Focus is very challenging, because it involves: - making hard decisions (eg, deprecating features you really love when it’s clear they aren’t working) - saying no & disappointing your possibly passionate users - not working on [shiny new thing] when it’s so much more interesting than [grindy thing to get to pmf] - deliberately ignoring [thing on fire] because it’s only slightly important and not extremely important 100% agree with Dan here - startups have a fixed number of shots on goal before they die. Need to always be aggressively prioritizing & focusing on what will get you closer to pmf.

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@neynar powers all of Paragraph's Farcaster integrations. Awesome to see these performance improvements!

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New on Paragraph: beautiful share images Your posts now look much better when shared on socials. Check it out in action 👇 https://zine.shamesoiree.com/homomorphic-encryption-and-predictive-architectures

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Very cool. Could be a good way to easily share a Paragraph post you’re reading in the miniapp.

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babe wake up, new ChatGPT prompt dropped

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Large focus of ours lately is on usability: how do we ensure Paragraph works for everyone, not just those deeply familiar with crypto? The new brand & narrative is a step in the right direction, but we have a lot more work to be done

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just tipped my favorite farcasters! thank you @drewcoffman.eth @bethanymarz @horsefacts.eth @lght.eth @reidtandy @zachterrell for being here :)

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Great writing deserves to be shared, seen, and supported. But today’s internet makes that harder than it should be. We want to give writers a place where their ideas thrive — and today, we’re launching a new look and a new home at https://paragraph.com. Read more below ↓

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