Linda Xie
@linda
Sharing a bit on how we're thinking about product decisions at Bountycaster We've been fortunate to have an early set of a few thousand users entirely through Farcaster but now we need to grow that significantly in order to be sustainable as a bootstrapped company We have many feature requests from users that we'd love to build but focus now is on how we can expand our user base. Given we're a 2 person team we need to be ruthless about prioritization which right now is 1) expanding # of total potential users with Twitter integration 2) leaning into AI agents since we feel strongly that's where things are headed and they will likely become some of our power users + help users/communities manage bounties at scale
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Les Greys
@les
out of curious do you both write code straight to prod, and do any use ai to code? Do you consider yourself a competitor to say a fivr or the other freelance sites?
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Linda Xie
@linda
@pirosb3 is solo dev and leverages AI significantly. I also use AI to help with minor frontend work Don't view ourselves as a competitor there, bounties are peer to peer and we're not a middleman in the process
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Les Greys
@les
thank you. find it interesting that you don’t. I do see how you differ via p2p, but the behavior patterns are similar at end&end, even when stripping the middle.
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Linda Xie
@linda
We're never going to compete at the centralized layer, if someone wants to have a guaranteed transaction and have a company intervene in case something goes wrong they should be using those sites We're built on social where it's less frction for bounties to get posted and bounty hunters to reply, people can make social connections with others and build up onchain reputation that isn't stuck in those centralized companies
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Les Greys
@les
100% agree. I think bountycaster wins on Lt scale of just that. But isn’t scaling (growth) coming from convincing more of those people why they SHOULD be via less friction, more money, or whatever the “tag line” is for BC? Genuinely wondering because I love what you all are doing.
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Linda Xie
@linda
I do spend a ton of time pitching (was at Devcon all week doing that) and constantly casting/tweeting about it. IMO Farcaster user base is just too small so trying to focus on pitching within a smaller potential user base when the product isn't set up in a way to use easily if you're not a Farcaster user isn't going to be the highest ROI
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