"It's impossible to compete with Warpcast"

1. If you're trying to build for the same use case then yes, it will be extremely difficult. Have been saying this since last year. 

Given the size of the network, there's not enough users for multiple venture-backed businesses. This is why we are so focused on growing the size of the network (which itself requires a supply of content).

2. Try building something that's orthogonal (i.e. not a clone of Warpcast which is largely a clone of Twitter). Or use the social graph permissionlessly (no signers needed) to enhance your onboarding like Drakula, Tavern, Rodeo, Zora, etc.

3. If you still want to build a Warpcast competitor, try starting with a mobile-first onboarding flow -- copy this one. 85% of Warpcast usage is mobile. Yet people keep galaxy braining with a web first strategy and then complain it's too hard to compete.

4. PWA mobile experience will save you time and no App Store, but you will have a much harder time creating habitual DAU.

How I would build an app on Farcaster today if I wasn't working on Warpcast

How about a series of university specific clients that use the .edu as a qualifier? Take the old FB model and bring it into the onchain age via FC. They certainly won't be resistant to crypto and the mobile first UX will speak directly to them.

Join the movement, create a better everything, all we need to do is keep building. /justbuild /talkstory $units $justbuild $moxie

If someone is passionate about that idea, they should try it.

Midwest mom in a California dad bod || Ruthlessly pro Farcaster

Agree, this is something that the devs that want to stand up clients should be working on, instead of going after the exact same audience as WC (crypto natives). Heard a lot of discussion yesterday about the limits of the TAM of FC and how WC was eating the entire market, so why not increase the size of the pie? Which is the kind of thing that @mcbain was talking about. Go, go, GROW!