farcaster turns every app into a social app

multi-player era 🌱

co-founder of generational.xyz, investor, exploring onchain & exploring the 🌍, nomad

an example

robinhood is single-player investing

compare this to what is possible w an onchain investing app that taps fc social graph, casts, dcs, etc

have you heard of public? 

public.com initially launched in 2019 with the main value prop that it was an investing platform *with* a social graph. it was called "the social investing app".

5 years later, there's not a trace of any of the "social" that once bolstered the app.

why not?

/ted | exploring the onchain frontier | surfing @ venice, ca | eating @ gjusta / gjelina

Not sure, but I feel that having a new social graph altogether might be the problem.

I would want to invest with the friends I am already talking to and socializing with for a long time (which FC allows you with an open social graph) than finding new friends on a new social graph and investing with them.