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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

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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?

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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.

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Now exploring where to go from here, Farcaster is not decentralised enough to build a serious client on it right now. Its on the roadmap but not a priority, maybe 1 year down the line we get there. Still a believer in decentralised social. Will keep on listening to users and building, might not be on Farcaster though.

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