Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
POV: there is no influx of people waiting to join Farcaster once it goes permissionless other than airdrop farmers. 1. We use Ethereum, so anyone anti-crypto is won’t be convinced in the near term 2. Existing apps are too similar to Twitter, with way less content New types of apps / behaviors for growth.
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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
Any thoughts on a way for the Merkle team to showcase FC native apps without explicitly endorsing? There’s a bit of a cold start problem on breaking very far away from existing mental models for apps and some sort of bootstrapping of attention could help more builders try moonshots w/o the a16z Mandate of Heaven
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
> w/o the a16z Mandate of Heaven wydm?
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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
This was my “running out of characters” shorthand for “building a new product with a new interface that does a new thing usually takes meaningful onboarding/learning a new behavior and people are willing to linger an extra 10 seconds to learn that behavior if a fund like a16z has deemed it worthy of investment”
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