Danica Swanson on Warpcast

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narrative violation: imo there is enough people to build an independent business on farcaster *today* at 50k daily active users on the network, you have enough people to market to you probably need only around 1k customers to replace your job and go full time, which is just 2% of people who open warpcast DAILY how to get there: 1. charge too much and too early. i know, it sucks — id love supercast to be free, be open source etc. i have many people telling me i will fail (huge lmao) bc there is no free plan and price is too high. fuck the haters (99% are forever wagecucks anyway) and make money 2. lean into farcaster trends. people are very tribal here and vibe matters a lot. it doesn't mean that you should build your whole product around degen, moxie or higher but integrating these tokens definitely drives more customers 3. post more often — at least 3 posts a day. spend 1h a day just writing and replying, schedule posts with supercast and have your posts go live without losing focus gg ez

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There's this myth that you have to have a huge audience to make a living online. You don't. "Make a living" is relative, if you need less money, you can do it on a smaller audience and scale up as you get better at it. Which is what I've done. With a core audience of about 150 people, a wider less-engaged following of about 5000, I've lived off of what I've made making my quirky content for a decade now - and even went full pay what you can/donation/tips in 2019 with a strategy of regular high-engagement tippable posts with everything else just being whatever I feel like talking about. My audience bought me a house in 2020, and I've paid the bills, rescued and rehome a bunch of cats, and continue to improve my life on that income. But you have to be strategic. And determined. You have to post even when no one is paying attention, and you have to be willing to connect to people on their content as well.

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a long time ago a successful entrepreneur explained you only need "eight reliable customers" to make a business float. takes less then you think. but takes the right kinda stuff.

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I just cast what's on my mind 🤣 Create what I feel like creating. Just insatiable curious and can't shut up.

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Mad respect for you, Gwynne. I'm a huge fan of your work, as you know. But if I may say so, I think sometimes you underestimate the role of innate talents and lucky timing in what you've accomplished. You are *gifted,* and you've been doing this for many years. Even with determination and brilliant strategic thinking and so on, not everyone could do what you do. I agree that it's *possible* to make a living without a huge audience. But you do need "the right kinda stuff," as @wake wrote. That said... thanks for hearing me out. Rock on with your bad self. 💜

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I treat luck like D and D: creatives have innate talents (roll bonuses) that make some outcomes more likely. Nothing guaranteed but no "single attempt" either. The longer you play the game (patience, grit) while cultivating that talent or skill set, the more likely and greater your success. This space recruits people with high analytical intelligence. It FAVORS and SELECTS people with higher emotional intelligence. Keep on rolling 🎲

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I've been playing the social media writing game for a decade now. I'm gifted with words naturally, but learning what works on social, how to build an audience? That took a lot of failed attempts, analyzing those failed attempts, trying again, and again, and again to find a "formula" that works for me and has been repeatable across platforms.

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Yep. It takes a lot more than people realize, luck besides. You got grit. You'll do just fine here.

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Good points all. I just get a little twitchy sometimes because of the prevalence of "if you just work hard and stick with it, YOU TOO can do this!!!!!" narratives. Well, maybe. But also, maybe not. And if not, it might not be your own fault. There's sooo much bait-and-switch BS out there that preys on creatives hoping to make a living from their creative work. I know countless creatives who work hard, think strategically, and all the rest, but still struggle for structural reasons or other reasons beyond their control. You can do everything right, but if the stars aren't aligned (e.g., your timing isn't so lucky) you'll still struggle. So I think the responsible thing to do is add some qualifiers to these pep talks. YMMV, "don't compare your insides to others' outsides" and all that.

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healthy caveats and worth remembering, sure: success is not guaranteed. these various intellectual/ emotional markers only suggest that success is a little more likely. still probabilistic. hell, even the word "success" is misleading; many won't succeed /or/ fail and that's okay.

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