Dan Romero on Warpcast

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Since today's meta is sharing Farcaster invite stories, here's some tough love for consumer founders: you're probably not schlepping enough. If you strategy to get more users is to open your code editor, you're avoiding the actual hard thing of talking to users and then having them silently reject you after a few days. The first version of our Farcaster app didn't work on mobile and didn't have follows, at replies, native image uploads, etc. Go talk to potential users. A lot. https://paulgraham.com/schlep.html

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all due respect to pg, but he (and you) are using the word 'shlep' incorrectly it has a few meanings, but none of them really apply in this context most common is to annoyingly lug something along, whether it's an object or a person or yourself, e.g. "to shlep" or trudge a far distance, e.g. "it was a shlep"

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I used to work on consumer too, and I remember when we only had 5000 users for our b2c edtech product. We were really struggling, so me and the three other cofounders split up each day and called every single user (around 50 calls a day per person) for feedback, then we would compare notes at the end of the day. We were young and I remember using my cofounders' mom's home phone because his mom had unlimited calling while my cell at the time didn't. at the end of the month we figured out what we needed to build and got into yc. ended up failing later but i will always remember what it took to work thru the schlep

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is there a thread of these somewhere? i want to read all the invite stories

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Mad respect for being in the trenches with us DEGEN's every single day dude.

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I'm surprised people came on board before even follows were a thing. Also, Yiddish words work well for you. You should include more in your casts hehe

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Were you messaging a lot of ex-coinbase employees and if your were , why?, cause there are a lot of them on here

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eirrann | he/him🎩🔵

Hard sells are hard AF Kudos for walking the walk

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My favourite part of that read is “No one likes schleps, but hackers especially dislike them”

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such a hard bias to negate especially when as devs you are used to the dopamine hit of completing a build (totally in your control) vs doing sth that requires the hard truth of funnel drop offs ( reach out to 10 , 1 will reply etc.)

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Man is there any screenshots or videos about that firts warpcast version? I feel really late rn, and my curiosity is killing me. I wanna see toddler farcaster💆🏻‍♂️

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I'm working to bring /akyllers here. Those are my people🌹😌

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I can’t co-sign this enough. Nobody is right the first time. Most people aren’t right the 10th time. The only way to get there is to talk to people. A new feature that isn’t informed by new convos with users is just a guess and likely wasted time. We all instinctively cling to what’s easiest for us and hide from the work. That’s not the way to success.

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I did it because you asked me to report the bug, but it was ignored? 👀 Well, I won't do it again

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I'm asking because I don't know much about history. Why did you make Farcaster? There must have been a lot of other social media. Was there a special reason?

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omfg, @randomerror.eth hits again. oh, wait, it wasn’t… 😂

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Dan there were lots of devs on X when you reached out to the ones you invited what made you choose them? cause it worked out pretty well, i’d say

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What’s your schlep Dan?

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How’re you able to convince people to join?

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