Warpcast

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1. Ethereum is a $300B market cap asset with publicly listed ETFs. Twitter was a public company and is now owned by one of the richest people in the world. That's not equivalent to a startup protocol that has yet to figure out a repeatable growth motion.

2. The protocol is not a good place to build a venture-backed business right now unless you have a long time horizon (might be useful to boostrap your new product).

3. We launched permissionless sign ups in October. Other than a brief period where Flink existed, no client is a meaningful contributor to sign ups today. Not expecting anyone else to do this, fwiw. Thus product-led protocol growth.

We did spend time on protocol channels in May and they had no impact (and possibly negative impact). So we rotated to focus on the upstream problems of content supply and feed algo. Solve the most important problem, not the feel good problem.

4. So we should schedule the protocol meetings around your schedule vs. everyone else? Not sure how this is relevant.

i disagree with this. it is a reflection of the self centric nature of the current state of warpcast - hence, farcaster

today, all the farcaster ecosystem revolves around warpcast. if you want to connect a new app, you need to swipe right on warpcast. if you want to invite a friend, they have to download warpcast

and since warpcast is stagnant on its current state of growth, it is easy to think that farcaster is dead because of that

but what if you come with a venture backed business that brings along the possibility of signing up people without them ever knowing that warpcast exist?

I believe we are not far from that happening. and when that happens, things will get very weird in here (warpcast), because of the kind of interactions that other clients may have with the protocol (im referring to the way casts could be used as a vehicle for social interactions on other clients - as comments on livestreams, for example)

things are gonna get weird

and we are closer to that than what most of us think

▶️ vibra

Ethereum builder & people connector. Juicebox, Revnet, Defifa & Footy App

yes @kmacb.eth if you share more context on the last 50 casts of your profile i can help a bit, but definitely organizing them under a “root cast” that serves as the starting point of that specific thread window of content (soccer game Olympics game idk) can make everything smoother nnlike this example. the root cast is a livestream, that when seen on /vibra is seen as a video, and here as a framennthe comments on the stream on vibra are commented as casts on that root castnnhttps://warpcast.com/nmercy/0xf8fa52e9