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Kartik
@slokh
Decided today that we’re not going to be working on /nook anymore. It was originally meant for us to play around with and learn new tech and has served that purpose. We don’t really see a path forward in continuing to build the client, so we’re going to explore some non-Farcaster ideas instead. More soon!
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welter
@fun
props for shipping quick and making hard decisions how has building a client affected your opinion of farcaster? did you consider other revenue streams on top of nook (outside of sign ups?) i'm sure a lot of fc builders would benefit a ton from your insights!
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Kartik
@slokh
Farcaster is a place for side projects right now, not serious companies. Maybe will change in a few years. But I don’t believe we will ever see another client compete with Warpcast, which makes it all the less interesting to me with the lack of client decentralization.
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David Furlong
@df
disagree I think clients will manage to compete, but it's going to take a strong team with funding + patience, a differentiated beachhead, and possibly an existing user base (ex: zora/metamask/... add a farcaster client interface). Unfortunately builders underestimate the difficulty of getting DAUs (myself included)
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David Furlong
@df
Competing head on for the same use cases/users means competing with warpcast, which means you're competing with years of a team of staff engineers' compounding improvements & also you need to change users existing habits which is really hard
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jon
@jonbray.eth
this is a really good take, I don't see anyone coming in with the goal of "competing with Warpcast" and being as successful there's a ton of room for builders to leverage Farcaster in their own products and develop that into a full fledged client
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