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Michael Pfister
@pfista
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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Commstark ๐ฉ๐ซ
@commstark
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 theyโll steal users from Warpcast
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Michael Pfister
@pfista
it's been tried before several times yet warpcast is still the dominant client right now it's extremely hard to steal DAUs from warpcast - they've been building their client for years, it's solid and multiplatform - warpcast trials new features before they are permissionless, your app will always be behind - unless you raise money, it'd be very hard to bootstrap given costs to run your client. don't forget warpcast has a giant $150m war chest this may change in the future, once there are > 1m DAUs and economic incentives are different
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Michael Pfister
@pfista
You'd be stealing from a very small DAU pool too
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Commstark ๐ฉ๐ซ
@commstark
hmmm thatโs fair how many DAU do you estimate a client needs to raise and build?
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