Neynar

Celebrating the experimental launch of hubs.neynar.com

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lowest hanging fruit rn:

top tier programming tutorials for aspiring self taught devs, using farcaster as the playground where to teach them javascript with 0 to production code

why? because for working with frames you can do it with a simple express server. and teach them about basic programming concepts with that

and from there evolve to a client

and from there evolve to running a hub

etc

basically, farcaster is a playground. and PLAY is the vehicle neural pathways to be formed inside us with more strength

study the importance of play in the human experience

and play

that's all

it would be valuable for neynar to have simple and rate limited api key's for people that are tinkering with the protocol

the 10 usd tier could be a block for many aspiring devs that are looking for free tooling to test things out

do i pay for a tutorial or for 1 month of usage of something that i don't know how to use?

farquest has FOSS high performance api's.

pinata is basically doing this, wrapping some neynar endpoints in a generous free tier.

foss.farchiver.xyz lists free open Hubs, which themselves have APIs

https://SassyHash.artlu.xyz/download

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PFP is same across socials

tutorial writers have collectively chosen to focus on Neynar examples because the DX is really that good to justify the cost IMHO.

plus you get no-code frames hosting 

to be fair the DX is just being able to run one query vs multiple SQL style queries against hubs.

if you have a hosted SQL and a shared foss library to do the queries for you, you're more flexible and get the same DX

though the added work + non existance of such a library right now that adds multiple queries makes it well worth 10$ to me + no need to worry about hosting that DB

the hub nodejs package is also somewhat nice, but is just directly the hub API wrapped, not multiple queries combined

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ok but imagine someone that doesn't know that farcaster exists

imagine someone that has never ever coded, any single line

do you think that person would pay the 10 usd?

do you think that person would pay even the 6 usd for the new account in here?

im talking about third world citizens that see on the internet an opportunity to make a living, and for which any penny is an opportunity cost

rn there is no easy way to plug and play them

I agree with the above, which is why I wanted to make Hubs first class citizen in https://github.com/dylsteck/farcasterkit though the v2 rewrite we did never went upstream so I stopped working on it, v2 proposal: https://github.com/dtechvision/farcasterkit

PS: the npm mentioned in v2 doesn't exist

that's why it is low hanging fruit. if someone focuses on creating youtube videos to teach people that don't know how to code (and don't even know that farcaster exists, or web3, or anything) and teach them with apples and oranges, the compounding effect of publishing one of those every week over a period of one year from now will be invaluable

that's the low hanging fruit. making this as simple as it can

the next billion people onchain will be brought by the next 10 million devs

from which 99% don't know they are devs yet, because they think programming is hard

(which it is, but ai abstracts all of that complexity into natural language)