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Michael Pfister
@pfista
The only reason you should build a Warpcast-flavored farcaster client right now is if you have a large pre-existing and external community looking for a new home. If 80% of your features overlap with things warpcast already does, you're gonna have a hard time. Strongest differentiators come down to - Net new community - Orthogonal features that have very low likelihood Warpcast will build them in Warpcast isn't stealing your feature. It's your job to understand Merkle/Warpcast's own product strategy and incentives, then build your product in a way that's symbiotic.
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jtgi
@jtgi
Why would an existing community migrate here? > Every member would need to pay to sign up. > Expensive and time consuming to build a good client (perf, media etc.), est. $1000/mo + 1 full time dev. > You lose a lot of flexibility conforming to protocol. Anything that doesn’t conform doesn’t benefit from network effects or may show up on protocol w/o needed context. > Channels aren’t decentralized yet. > Spam is expensive to solve. I could see ideological crypto communities migrating. I’m not confident in the value prop for others. Before a community specific client we might want a community orientated client anyone can plugin to or white label.
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