Assume it was 1-click and 100% automated to deploy, run and update a Hub.

How much per month would you be willing to pay to run one? 

No direct economic incentive other than you know you're supporting Farcaster decentralization and you have your own copy of the network.

OK, if you're answer is you wouldn't run one.

Working on Farcaster and Warpcast. Longer thoughts at https://dwr.email

What was missing from eth nodes was an ability to index, so as to make querying the state of contracts much more powerful.

Farcaster has the same problem. 

Compiling cast threads and reactions is really what developers need.

An extensible indexer so people can make a Reddit style app would be amazing…

Working on building zkTLS infra/products. A ruthless empiricist and meme connoisseur.

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Indexing will be annoying when it comes to enforcing storage limits (deleting old messages), and revoking signers.

Have you guys given consideration to adding a extensible indexer along with the hub? I’m imagining something like TheGraph, but I TheGraph is polarizing.

You could manage this with Goldsky -- pretty powerful chain indexing platform to manage complex edge cases without much hassle. 

We're currently powering the search gateway on Arweave which is a close corollary + a few hundred other notable projects like Aave, Poap, Nouns, Dora, and more.

You could manage this with Goldsky -- pretty powerful chain indexing platform to manage complex edge cases without much hassle. 

We're currently powering the search gateway on Arweave which is a close corollary + a few hundred other notable projects like Aave, Poap, Nouns, Dora, and more.

https://goldsky.com/