"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

There needs to be an dedicated funding mechanism for people to go after this

Im not complaining, im going after that funding right now

Let’s fucking win

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

> There needs to be an dedicated funding mechanism for people to go after this

What do you mean?

There are teams that have built great small businesses on Farcaster

But to keep growing they can’t leave growing the protocol up to you and Merkle (no shade! It’s a hard job!)

They are scrappy so want to write checks to them in the style of IndieVC

Correct

And, an IndieVC style accelerator will help retain the best builders

Who in turn will make the protocol more sticky and make your job easier

(I’m not asking you do to this, just telling you I’m doing it)

> But to keep growing they can’t leave growing the protocol up to you and Merkle (no shade! It’s a hard job!)

Our point of view is there is minimal incentive to grow the protocol. It's our responsibility to do that. 

If we get to 10M protocol DAU, different story.