First Draft Club

Congrats to all who wrote a /firstdraft this past week! And a special shoutout to @anaroth for their first submission :)

First Draft Club members who wrote received $5 back: https://basescan.org/tx/0xb438e620bdc05026a25f451402b4d7f0874568b4cfef50ea90ba8c1be70dc234

Check out the thread for each member's /firstdraft👇

A weekly accountability program for sharing and writing. More info at
firstdraft.club /firstdraft

After the playlist monetization model collapsed, musicto rebuilt from the ground up — investing in people, upgrading infrastructure, and discovering that true community comes through creative collaboration.
(Part 3 hopefully by tomorrow ;-p)

https://warpcast.com/music2work2/0x0b54fff7

https://paragraph.com/@sean07.eth/crypto-app-thesis-pt-2

https://warpcast.com/sean07.eth/0xfbd0b234

** 29 Seconds of FarCon ** (my /firstdraft )

* 'Make your first dollar on Farcaster is find your first 10 friends on FB' @dwr.eth 

* What's your favorite mini app? @dwr.eth right now I'm using wyat a lot by @alvesjtiago.eth & like how it's designed | @v  Acid Test (from @chaim.eth )

* 'A person could build a business by creating a killer mini app & never hire anyone' @fredwilson.eth 

* 'I'm so excited about Farcaster because you can do for the world what Twitter couldn't do' -Fred

* 'Now is the time to step on the gas and do everything your lawyers were telling you not to do' -Fred

* Pro Tip: Watch the Fred Wilson interview when dropped from /gmfarcaster 

* Monetizing & targeting audiences is what web2 businesses struggle with & FC gives it to you for $10/mo with APIs @phil 

* 'Good founders serve an existing network. Great founders shape a new network.' @jihad 

* FarCon is the real deal & was run impeccably by @esteez.eth & her band of merry men & women | If you've thought about going, go.

Sundays are for /firstdraft's 

https://paragraph.com/@0xc578958dd1880cf00bffbb7feb9c28cbbbcad3bf/farconnyc-2025-reflections

take 2 mins of your time to read this, I trust you'll find it insightful.


my /firstdraft 

https://paragraph.com/@infrafijournal/inside-the-dollar330m-btc-scam-why-xmr-was-the-final-destination

https://warpcast.com/0xtheweb3nerd/0x79f1a8c7

What makes FarCon So Special? (🧵)


Farcasters are special. Y’all are my kind of nerds. We are the innovator class. We are the trailblazers who are super open minded and eager to try all of the new things. We are driven and motivated and for a handful of days, many of us converged into one place and got to hang out as humans. 

We worked, we played, we ranted, we connected, we broke bread, we gave hugs, and most importantly we put faces to the pfps and realized that every person we met was an awesome human doing cool things. 

We went from magic internet friends to real friends. We had incredible moments, made connections, and strengthened our bonds in a way we just can’t do over text. 

The URL to IRL pipeline is key and must be protected at all costs. 

The Summit was outstanding but the side events, shared Ubers /subway rides, coffees and dinners were the stars of the week.

What’s been stark to me about the Clanker news is how different the reaction has been to it than other negative press in crypto

@proxystudio.eth has done a ton for Farcaster and Base ecosystems with his work here in such a short time. With all that’s gone down I might prefer not to meet Proxy.. but not for reasons you might think

“people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” — Maya Angelou

Perhaps I’ll see you emerge in your third arc as someone entirely different. Shaped by your experiences as gaba and proxy. But i hope to preserve the feeling that ProxyStudios instilled in all of us and keep it for life

Thanks friend

Big shoutouts to @esteez.eth, @dylsteck.eth, and others who helped out with the main events at Farcon!

My favorite parts of the weekend were side events that had specific activities and audiences that extended beyond crypto. The Forever Library event (@amelie @debbie), Bracket’s beer pong tournament (@tldr @passafiume.eth @maxp.eth), and yoga & oysters (@loriann) were highlights for me.

Maybe it’s because I’m an introvert, and it’s preferable to have something to do while mingling. But I also think it’s valuable for us, as a social network, to expand our own horizons. I met several people at events this weekend who weren’t very active on Farcaster – or hadn’t heard of it at all! – that became more interested in what we’re building here. They wouldn’t have attended a generic crypto-oriented mixer, but an adjacent event served as a warm (re)introduction.