Dan Romero on Warpcast

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"It's impossible to compete with Warpcast" 1. If you're trying to build for the same use case then yes, it will be extremely difficult. Have been saying this since last year. Given the size of the network, there's not enough users for multiple venture-backed businesses. This is why we are so focused on growing the size of the network (which itself requires a supply of content). 2. Try building something that's orthogonal (i.e. not a clone of Warpcast which is largely a clone of Twitter). Or use the social graph permissionlessly (no signers needed) to enhance your onboarding like Drakula, Tavern, Rodeo, Zora, etc. 3. If you still want to build a Warpcast competitor, try starting with a mobile-first onboarding flow -- copy this one. 85% of Warpcast usage is mobile. Yet people keep galaxy braining with a web first strategy and then complain it's too hard to compete. 4. PWA mobile experience will save you time and no App Store, but you will have a much harder time creating habitual DAU.

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Is this bad for the network? - The network is too small to matter yet! We need to get to 10M daily active users — at least 200x growth from here (likely more) before there are enough users for multiple independent Twitter-style client businesses can work. That may even be too small. - That said -- there are opportunities for orthogonal clients, power user clients (e.g. Supercast or Buoy), open source clients (Herocast), passionate projects, performative art clients, DAO-funded clients (e.g. Nouns). - I said "Play a different game" a while back and got mocked. OK, if you want to play the venture-scale (and venture-backed) game, you're self-selecting into a brutal competitive, always thinking about user growth and retention game. And you're competing mostly against Instagram, Twitter, YouTube and Netflix (since time is zero sum and most of it is not on Farcaster).

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Mac Budkowski ᵏ

And if you're looking for ideas for 2., read this https://kanfa.macbudkowski.com/social-app-canvas

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@ispeaknerd.eth

competing with wc on comparable features is def losing game stoked to check out /nounspace this week, @realitycrafter.eth and @willywonka.eth showed me wordpress for farcaster at /fwb-fest still have yet to see a quality product designed for non-ephemeral content

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best opportunity to test idea rn is distribute directly in warpcast itself via frame and/or composer action

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Hey @sebastianlehrer technically @warpcast is a Farcaster client and you should definitely interview @dwr.eth to what you are building.

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Jacque(she|her).⌐◨-◨

Noticing that more and more plus each additional aggregation platform goes through Warpcast as the central hub.

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@thecurioushermit

I've onboarded three non-crypto people in the last few days. Getting them on was easy, just had to point them in the right direction to set up and connect a wallet. Content will come as more people come onboard because it's not hard to do.

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Isn’t @super quite similar to Warpcast and doing well?

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Kieran Daniels 🎩

For my general knowledge: could you elaborate on the issues you’ve had with PWA? And is that just vs mobile or vs another desktop app type? Ty

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can you give us a rundown of the tech side of things behind warpcast? let the devs give their take on how long and difficult it would really take to build-their-own-client

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Lauren McDonagh-Pereira

@lampphotography

That's the brilliance of Moshicam, Farcaster integrated, shared on Warpcast, filling a niche for fun Instagrammy mints

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For an example of someone doing it well, see /wildcardclub. I think they have approached things from a unique perspective and can possibly carve out a good niche for themselves in time.

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Great flow for the sign-up! Curious why "Log in with Google" isn't available. Can't a wallet be automatically created and assigned to someone who goes through the usual "Log in with Google"?

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Great flow for the sign-up! Curious why "Log in with Google" isn't available. Can't a wallet be automatically created and assigned to someone who goes through the usual "Log in with Google"?

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I guess the only way to truly compete is improving upon the UX and maybe integrate nicer ways to highlight frames and actions.

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Then my suggestion would be to add different mobile wallets, that would skyrocket the mobile frame usage, I almost never use frames from the phone. I think the frames and composable actions are what differentiate warpcaster from twitter and it’s really a game changer to transact from the same place where you talk to your friends. But there’s too much friction to use frames from mobile right now.

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nounspaceTom.eth

can confirm, would not want to go head to head with warpcast with a similar product or vision, but the team and I love building client that's quite different and orthogonal. much prefer this vs. building a new social network from scratch too. our goal is to be the best farcaster client. we know it's an ambitious goal, but we wouldn't be building a client if we didn't think we (the team & the community) could dao it. still, we consider warpcast much more of a partner than a competitor. tl;dr, we're grateful to be building on y'all's shoulders. we don't have any expectations for you to support us, but we appreciate all of the support you give nonetheless 💜

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kardon.degen.eth🧾

I'm supporting you through @microsub! 332 $DEGEN (Please mute the keyword "ms!t" if you prefer not to see these casts.)

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Never considered opening the doors of politifi? Unmoderated and uncensored politic content will bring a whole group of users from X that are afraid of being banned/shadowbanned, making Farcaster a social media and not just a crypto group chat!

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