Crew

Why would you build on Farcaster — frames, actions, clients — if Merkle / Warpcast will just clone it if successful?

1. Outside of trading (Coinbase, Uniswap), there's no successful (at-scale, revenue generating) crypto-based business today.

2. The biggest constraint for all crypto app growth is users. There are not enough people using / "in" crypto today. The market needs to expand based on increasing the amount of consumer utility provided.

3. Our goal with Farcaster (and Warpcast) is to get enough scale where developers are able to build meaningful businesses without having to onboard more people to Farcaster and/or crypto themselves.

4. Separately, if your product is really a just a feature of another product, your best bet at building as a business around it is finding the Top 1% power users of said feature and giving them as many bells, whistles and knobs so they are willing to pay you.

5. We actively try to support other Farcaster apps in the ecosystem...

I get pretty defensive of Merkle when people get mad at them 

Fuck off

Building an app on an open social graph

(If it works)

Will be the opportunity of the fucking century 

They are building an engine to acquire users and then open source that user data 

What more do you want? 

Fuck off

Lead Clank @clankpad || Midwest mom in a California dad bod || Ruthlessly pro Farcaster

IRL: Creative Director who makes movies and ads.

He’s not a messiah

But complaining that he’s why you’re not winning is beta shit

I believe that a balanced community requires a variety of perspectives. Diverse voices are valuable as we should not depend on a single leader figure, whether it's Dan or anyone else. Messiah figures are bad for any community, it's not different here.

Ehhh TBH I think it’s not terrible to have people critical of MM on here.  In fact I think it’s kind of important.

This, this, and this. The fact that they are all here wading in the waters of the shit talk and feature requests (which amount to do what I tell you) is pretty amazing. They could just farm that tasks to marcom and be done with it, but they are literally using the product in here with us. Give a little credit where credit is fucking due. 👊 😁

hmmm idk. i think people should criticize merkle if they disagree with how they're doing things, it's contact with reality which is only positive. ad hominems and feeling entitled to certain features are of course unproductive, but most ppl "getting mad" at merkle is good faith criticism imo