Michael Pfister on Warpcast

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Michael Pfister

The only reason you should build a Warpcast-flavored farcaster client right now is if you have a large pre-existing and external community looking for a new home. If 80% of your features overlap with things warpcast already does, you're gonna have a hard time. Strongest differentiators come down to - Net new community - Orthogonal features that have very low likelihood Warpcast will build them in Warpcast isn't stealing your feature. It's your job to understand Merkle/Warpcast's own product strategy and incentives, then build your product in a way that's symbiotic.

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🎯🎯🎯 ps we're so lucky to have you here

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Why would an existing community migrate here? > Every member would need to pay to sign up. > Expensive and time consuming to build a good client (perf, media etc.), est. $1000/mo + 1 full time dev. > You lose a lot of flexibility conforming to protocol. Anything that doesn’t conform doesn’t benefit from network effects or may show up on protocol w/o needed context. > Channels aren’t decentralized yet. > Spam is expensive to solve. I could see ideological crypto communities migrating. I’m not confident in the value prop for others. Before a community specific client we might want a community orientated client anyone can plugin to or white label.

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💯 seems the two best ways to test interest without fully committing to full read/write client are >composer action + frame >sign in w farcaster

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i could not agree with you more

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Hard agree. Minor carve out for pedagogical reasons (learning how to build one by building one)

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Agree. Don’t build a client for the sake of building a client (or fund raising) . Build solutions user need. If it ends up having to be a client then that’s the time for that client https://warpcast.com/casslineth/0xd1108a96

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@cast2save #farclient

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Exactly. Although, I don't even think a pre-existing large community warrants a Warpcast-like client. No community ATM is large enough for that.

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or having a better ml model

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What if A community with strong connections (say /lp or /mfers ) copies Warpcast completely but just changes the colors for fun then their fans move to the client and then new features are slowly added (native coin tip button) overtime they’ll steal users from Warpcast

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I manage a thriving art and AI community with over 250K members on Web 2. Despite my efforts to introduce the idea of transitioning to Web 3, my calls have been completely ignored. I’ve tried multiple times to explain the benefits, but the Web 2 audience shows no excitement. The community is very active, tight-knit, and wonderful in many ways, but they are resistant to any move.

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Very well said Michael ✨

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Building a client for myself lol

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Agreed! Its difficult to build a new habit for users, like checking a new app. With composer actions and frame you can pretty easily build a “feature” for Warpcast. @clubcast has its own client but I built it to work fully end to end on Warpcast too

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uhh yeah true fax nice verbiage

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I'm supporting you through @microsub! 47 $DEGEN (Please mute the keyword "ms!t" if you prefer not to see these casts.)

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Sounds like good advice to me 200 $degen

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