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For anyone that’s investigated this, what’s the technical difficulty with a channel-focused client? Serious question.
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IMO very few. You can still only create channels in Warpcast but that shouldn’t stop anyone. Republished from a GC: if you asked me to build this "channel-focused client" I would: 1) Approach it more like an "app" than a "client." Cut out most of the stuff a generic "client" has to do (signups, follows, feeds, search, notifications, chat). If you want to do that, use Warpcast or any of the 10 other clients. 2) Focus narrowly on a really good channel viewing and management experience. Try to do better at surfacing and curating interesting content. Add an integrated curation/moderation tool. (There is a huge underexplored programmability surface here with automated moderation). Add stuff like downvoting, threading, etc. Build on what already exists. 3) Expand to some unique channel focused features: a gated chat, private content, more UI customization, pinned posts, integrations with spaces/blogs/newsletters/subscriptions/events. 4) Monetize by subscriptions, focus on getting 100 power users to start.
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Also following channels is not possible cross-client, so really hampers any advantage of using Farcaster for that generally. Have to rebuild the interest graph each time or focus on one channel/niche.
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Agree that a public "follow channel" API would be useful, but how does this prevent you from building a channel focused app? "Channelcaster pulls all your channels from Warpcast. To find and follow new channels, click here <link to Warpcast>"
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fwiw I’d integrate a follow channel API the day it’s released if I could
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