customer support @supercast

trying to sound smart /doingnumbers

It’s 10x easier (still hard) to build a Warpcast level FC client than it was 4 years ago

- Farcaster exists
- Hubs exists
- SIWF exists
- Neynar exists
- 10s of thousands of potential daily users exist plus more people onboarding all the time

schlep problem and skill issue (@woj.eth excluded)

Building @warpcast and @farcaster, new dad, like making food

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agreed! still hard and expensive but much less so than starting from nothing

It’s not hard at all to build a simple client for 100 users if you use neynar (my lukewarm take is that it’s actually easy)

Warpcast level i.e. performant real-time algo feed, Apple Pay onboarding, cross platform, direct messages, warps, polish, etc) is too much for hobbyists imo and ROI is unclear for companies

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reasonable

either you are passionate and want to hack around for the fun of it in which case contributing to an open source project is likely more fun than starting from scratch

or there’s a profit motive and you’re willing to take a risk on building in a winner take all space on a dark horse technology

I still find it hard to understand the incentive in building my own client besides: selling ads, selling subs, to cover cost or accumulating high tech to sell later (massive commitment) - ai spam filter, good algo, some innovation etc.

Are you suggesting that the warpcast can be open sourced and it's easier to get it running now?  /jk

Easier to build FC client now with existing infrastructure and user base. Watch out for obstacles