Founders

As a founder, I’m asking for your email address when you sign up for my product.

I know, I know: something something decentralization.  But there’s just no good way to re-engage wallets at this point in time.  XMTP isn’t widely adopted, tokens/NFTs can get hidden by wallets, and lots of people aren’t even using wallet notifications.

Email is cheap, ubiquitous, familiar, and battle tested.  An email list is worth way more than a wallet list (or even an FC list).

Startup artist seeking inspiration.  Champion of /bcard

Building and publishing Farcaster growth playbooks. Chief builder @percs --> link.percs.app/chinmay.eth

Guess it depends on what you are building

I have experimentee with Warpcast DMs and XMTP, the results are way better than emails.

We created Hypersub (subscription NFTs) and Crowdfi (onchain crowdfunding). withfabric.xyz. Follow /fabric for product updates, news and announcements.

Agreed, happy that @fabric gets all the goodies for us including email.

have used email in our product and works surprisingly well especially when it is contextual

Building /farcastle. Tryna help humans coordinate. Just /yeet it. TANSTAAFL! https://bootleggers.wtf/

In this case it was.  Here’s the feedback we got:

1. ETH-only login: “shouldn’t I be getting an email”?

2. ETH login with email optional: “I don’t want to put in my email.  But shouldn’t I get an email?”

3. Email login with ETH optional: “great onboarding flow!  I guess I would prefer to sign up with ETH addy, though”

Classic stated vs revealed preference

Founder centric is not always user centric