Haven’t don’t one in a while — AMA!

building /bracket | talking /greatbooks | ex-BCG, ex-PHD | poli + phil + econ

Varun for sure and then the team being  super legit.

What is the key to you guys shipping so damn fast? 

This isn’t hero worship, I’m just actually curious how you all move so fast while keeping quality so high.

building mini-apps /farville | core @builders-garden /urbe-eth /ethrome 🐺

https://limone.lol

Rome, Metropolitan City of Rome Capital, Italy

Varun and I were trying to rename RSS+ and Varun suggested Farcaster from the book Hyperion (like Palantir or Anduril from LoTR).

somebody asked already for sure but i missed this, what’s the backstory behind “farcaster” name

writing at: https://paragraph.xyz/@thearcadia || curating vibes over at /football || bringing football onchain at /thefalsenine

More optimistic! Next year is year 10 working in crypto and I’m the most excited I’ve ever been.

Are you more or less optimistic about crypto generally than when you started building Farcaster?

« Blockchains are trust machines »
Let’s add to the mix spicy memes & story telling. Bad trader. Sometimes lucky. ✨ /artcoin
BLIFE PROTOCOL  newcoin.org

Just unfollow the people who are discussing topics you’re not interested in?

Goal is 1B DAU for the protocol. Going to be plenty of topics any one person is not interested in. Key is having client / algo diversity is to find your ideal FC experience.

How do you view an increase in DAU if it comes at the ‘cost’ of an increase in meme coins and some might argue a decrease in the quality of conversation/vibes?

Building @withfam Prev. Co-founder @ Talisman ✴︎ Member @ FWB, Refraction, The Park, UFO ✷

I’m not super productive. Never have been.

My rough schedule is: 6-7am wake up with kids, out the door by 7:30, office until 5-5:30pm, kids / dinner until 7ish pm, less productive work after, sleep

Weekends more kid stuff, work during naps and occasionally 1/2 day because my wife is supportive and amazing

How do you structure your time between working on Farcaster and spending time with kids/family? What hacks have you used to remain super productive?

Pragmatism (Security) at OP Labs.
Prev: ConsenSys & Coinbase.

Attribs: Friendly, curious, introverted, mid-witted.
Chans: /eth-security /maurelian /stoicism




Investing in builders who are active on FC today

How would I make a financial bet on the long term success of FC?

Ignore what people say and watch what they do. Ethereum network effect seems to be growing from my pov

thoughts on the future of Ethereum and the whole ETH is dead narrative that alt L1s mainly solana are currently pushing and bitcoin maxis saying ETH is worse money

Hi! My name is Daniel. I am building bountycaster.xyz

Ex Phantom, 0x Project engineer.

From Italy originally, currently live in NYC

Pre-pmf, most important to have founders in same place

In person have an advantage (assuming you can attract the same talent, which may not be the case)

Don’t have long term plans, iterate daily and you’ll move fast

On remote-first companies

- As Farcaster is a remote-first company, how does this impact your decision-making process?
- Under what circumstances would you suggest startups bias towards in-person?
- Any advice on how to build a strong culture and achieve rapid iteration similar to an in-person environment?

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

nf.td/varun

We worked in the 10 get apart in same room 85% of the time. Sync multiple times per day. He did all the TypeScript and I did design and muddled through the frontend React. I also spent a lot of time talking to early users.

how did you work together with @v when it was just you two working on farcaster?
- where did you work from? (office, remote, ...)
- did you have a daily/weekly sync?
- what kind of work were you both doing?

https://youtu.be/koUWHT5JeSM?si=L2e_Jc3dKmliD1lCaa

VR. Feels like working in mobile pre iPhone

What’s something (industry, idea, internet subculture) that’s low status now that you believe will be high status in in 5-8 years

1. There are no departments — just engineering.

2. We have a high level six month goal, a more concrete set of 2 month goals, and then weekly planning (have been operating closer to daily planning more recently). 

Will change when we find pmf

What does your product development cycle look like? 

I.e. how does the team communicate between biz, product, engineering (outside of the weekly dev call).

Unlearning. Full time product manager. Part time builder/tinkerer on farcaster. Bots: @nftsoffc.

I’m East Coast this week. :)

Weekday - work, kids, sleep
Weekend - kids, work, sleep

Starting an AMA at 4:40 AM!! (assuming you guys are in LA)

What is your weekday, weekend routine?

Building onchain gov @agora agora.xyz open-source ✨ Prev. clearco/fintech

What’s a feature request or sidequest that you chose not to do/build but you were tempted by since you started farcaster?

cma.xyz. Founder /paragraph, ceo /mirror, previously at Google & Coinbase 

What led you to picking ‘channels’ as a key way to differentiate FC from “just another twitter clone”?

https://www.earlywooddesigns.com/products/small-wooden-spatula

What’s the most underrated utensil or small appliance in your kitchen?

Maps 🗺️

fortune cookie casts, memes, parenting, building frames, /framedl, /framedl-pro & /calmer

Chasing ikigai 💫 Exploring what's next 👨‍💻 Alum: Product @ XMTP, Microsoft, Apple

What's a habit you're trying to make? What's a habit you're trying to break?

janitor@ /middle-mgmt // inquiring in /inquiry // web3 law stuff // free Ross // free Assange // ☮︎ Ξ ✧

lovelight.eth.limo

Know it when you see it, but 100x DAU from here.

North Star is DAU, qDAU if you want to be specific which is DAU minus manually marked spammy users

pmf came up a few times in this thread. what are your yardsticks for measuring whether Farcaster is “there”?

what is Farcaster’s north star for growth? (e.g. active monthly users, unique user signups, etc)

Tax CPA, Startups, ISO, NSO, QSBS, Web3, Angel Investing

Work with a potential co-founder for 4+ years at the same high growth engineering heavy tech company. :)

If not an option, find someone technical you trust and have them do a technical interview. 

It’s a really challenging problem.

Best way to find and screen technical resources for a nontechnical founder?