Degen

wildcard

I’m Karan

Building /wildcardclub 

Entrepreneur, previous CTO at startups funded by Sequoia India, Y Combinator, Alliance. — switched from AI (2021) to crypto (2022 and onwards)

Big believer in decentralised social. And attention economy being integral part of it.

Born in India, currently living in Dubai

Graduate in Applied Mathematics, noob ex-researcher

building /wildcardclub

(prev. @alliance, @ycombinator, @0xppl)

Its an evolving story.

I started with a simple experiment, a game where you can buy/sell tickets and get tips. Why FC? I believe in decentralised social and it’s interoperability.

Here the social feed got more traction. Saw lot of conversation of need for another client going on, built it.

Next, onto building a cool, more degen client, by listening to that segment of users. Built native apps and experience for communities (degen, moxie, mfers). Never launched this publicly.

We will end up competing with Warpcast for attention, and that too in a handicap match. (W/o SIWF , DMs), even for users that we bring to the protocol. So it doesn’t make sense to onboard net new users, when the onboarding flow to the ecosystem (SIWF) involves installing Warpcast, and DMs will be fragmented.

what a chad

whats your strategy for building on farcaster? are you competing with Warpcast? are you capturing new users for the protocol?

what makes building on farcaster appealing?

Life Maxi worlding /farcasterland writing about it https://t.ly/mdK99 onboarding people onto it https://t.ly/Egj2l

haha thanks!

Not a mobile person? we have web app, and native apps in beta, can drop access!

great origin story and great to have you here. I have started to use wildcard bc of the onchain data. Huge fan of interface but not a mobile person...

Couldn't resist to buy the channel fan-token bc of your skin in the game move by buying moxie!

bringing memes to retail @bolide | shitcoins trader | passionate about UX 👩‍💻 

1.)web3 NEWBIE  2.)memer 3.)Trying to build 4.)shitposter💩 5.) charts📈

The journey went like

- online courses
- university groups / seniors
- open source contributions (GSoC)
- freelance consulting work
- corporate intern and job
- startups (lots of optimism and delusional positivity)
- finally. GPT & Claude

hey karan, i was under the impression you studied computer science, how did you learn how to code then?

great work youre doing here karan
true mfer!

microsub.

Damm you are so close champ 
Let’s have a meetup 🔥