Warpcast onboarding flow as of August 1, 2024

I've seen an uptick in casts talking about improving onboarding for non-crypto-people. So here's a live onboarding I just did. I'd say it's pretty close to any web2 experience with the exception of upfront payment.

You'll notice:

1. Minimal crypto UX — we use in-app purchases and Passkeys

2. The majority of onboarding interests used to populate the initial algo feed are non-crypto.

3. Since we no longer do initial follows, the initial feed nudges new users to follow more people. (Remember, the number one reason people churn is not enough content in their feed.)

4. Aside: crypto people don't sync contact book but non-crypto people do (because every other social app does this). However, that means the new people don't immediately find people they know the network.

This is quite an improvement, passkeys are awesome UX!!

couldn't you allow signups without storage or a freemium cheaper mode that doesn't store your casts/reactions whatever for longer than X?

creator of le /bleu @elefant. 
co-creator of /farcards

destroyer of things.

We could. A lot of work and unlikely to lead to retained users in the near to medium term.

makes sense, wondering how much free would affect to onboarding but i guess it does not move the needle...