Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
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...
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
5. ...by giving people opportunity to get distribution through Warpcast. 1. Hubs are permissionless and open source 2. The algo does not penalize links / frames 3. Programmatic DCs 4. Composer actions + discovery on Warpcast 5. With specific features, we nudge power users who want more customization to other apps like Automod, Buoy, Paybot and Payflow.
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Abbas🎩👾
@0xabss.eth
I know four or five dev and software engineers who are here who joined during my last webinar. Is there a tutorial that teaches them how to build frames here?
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Piracoi🅰️
@piracoi
Thanks. This is a good question that I want to know about it. Really important.
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