Dan Romero on Warpcast

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Why would you build on Farcaster — frames, actions, clients — if Merkle / Warpcast will just clone it if successful? 1. Outside of trading (Coinbase, Uniswap), there's no successful (at-scale, revenue generating) crypto-based business today. 2. The biggest constraint for all crypto app growth is users. There are not enough people using / "in" crypto today. The market needs to expand based on increasing the amount of consumer utility provided. 3. Our goal with Farcaster (and Warpcast) is to get enough scale where developers are able to build meaningful businesses without having to onboard more people to Farcaster and/or crypto themselves. 4. Separately, if your product is really a just a feature of another product, your best bet at building as a business around it is finding the Top 1% power users of said feature and giving them as many bells, whistles and knobs so they are willing to pay you. 5. We actively try to support other Farcaster apps in the ecosystem...

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5. ...by giving people opportunity to get distribution through Warpcast. 1. Hubs are permissionless and open source 2. The algo does not penalize links / frames 3. Programmatic DCs 4. Composer actions + discovery on Warpcast 5. With specific features, we nudge power users who want more customization to other apps like Automod, Buoy, Paybot and Payflow.

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Option 1. Ruthlessly build for users, including bulldozing developers Option 2. Treat developers like customers, and help developers reach users as the first party interaction I don’t think you believe in the ecosystem developers enough to trust them with (2), so you are alienating them with (1) I get it, but it seems to rely on a strategy of high short-term developer churn, and growing a loyal developer base again once you hit scale

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Should a successful third-party app or feature get absorbed into the Warpcast client, are the original developers rewarded? Or is it free market competition?Top example that comes to mind is the Pay feature. I'm assuming there were behind the scenes conversations to get the developers of Paybot and Payflow involved?

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top 1% power Chinese users are using @tako

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What kinds of other clients would you prefer to support? Is there some list/guidelines?

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What if majority (let’s even say a cluster) of businesses/ projects built on Warpcast have a similar faq model where it’s different products but have the same foundational information devs want to provide to their users who have been onboarded before

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Viva la Farcaster

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I think opening up DC's api would really give alt-clients a chance to compete 1:1 with warpcast, @woj.eth supercast is awesome but DC's keep me gated here. likewise with wildcard

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It’s painful to build as a nobody, my resilience is beaten and bruised. I’ve wanted to bring in more users, but it’s dev central and my artisan friends don’t speak that language—

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@cristianisbased.eth

Hey Dan I'm curious about building frames but there's not much information or help Any useful videos or links to walk me through it like I'm 5 would be greatly appreciated I know I can do it if I set my mind to it, I want to learn too

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I love bells and whistles!

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I enjoy building frames not everything needs to be a business or product to exist. I make the frames for myself, if others enjoy using them cool

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With all the restrictions and starting new account feels so difficult because of hidden cast/reply, do you have any tips if people want to start new account in farcaster? What should they do?

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I remember you saying you were focused on farcaster, not necessarily Warpcast to an extent. Warpcast is a necessary entity of farcaster no? It seems like farcaster (the vehicle) would miss out if farcaster spent time focusing on Warpcast. On the flip side. Most people build what they want to see. So if they are able to see it in Warpcast, I suspect they would move on to build something else. (A remix on if you build it they will come)

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Ok banger. This cast has been recognized as an all time Farcaster banger. @degencast.eth submitted this cast to /ok-banger and it is now highlighted on the channel's main feed. Submit your own bangers by quote casting into /ok-banger.

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Farcaster's potential as a universal social login for both online and offline interactions is exciting.

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@eljuniordiaz.eth

What do you recommend to people that are on the fence about it? Leaning towards joining in on the fun, A lot of them are skeptical, especially with today's bearish market.. I'd like your opinion on this. I've been trying to onboard my family And it seems like they're curious but they just don't want to take that leap of faith so to speak..

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Beacuse Farcaster is thousand times better than every social medias

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My English left the chat

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