Farcaster

Artist, strategist, and designer. Studying the meta and building decentralized brands. https://www.artsos.app/usersteen-eth

I think top of funnel discoverability is something to improve. 

Clear value prop, call to action to sign up, explain why there’s cost.

But the reality is word of mouth and invites from passionate existing users will be the best growth vector.

I think the Farcaster registration cost is the highest drop off stage of the funnel - most users don't have enough proof of value

The highest leverage opportunity right now is figuring out how to increase the perceived value to the user before getting them to pay; other apps use the freemium model for this problem

Building Larry, FOSS via @frames, @framesfun /open-frames to help decentralized social win. a16z CSX23. farcasterchannels.com farcaster.id

One possible approach is a trial period or read-only version. The former is susceptible to bots tho, I like the latter a lot: lurking is free

Governance Public Utilities for @zksync at @thezknation

100%, with shadow-following could be good, so you create a temp profile, you get to follow, but it’s like being shadow-banned on purpose / not allowed to post.

agree - lurking is free should be possible today on web and most clients; although not warpcast iOS. Perhaps it should be - including watching casts

This is basically Guest Mode U3 is building. We even allow user to follow users and channels. Just do not allow posting before they signup

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Just chuckled thinking “you have 10 casts” and FC just builds a GPT bot that likes and replies thoughtfully to new joiners.

its important that users experience the core value within the 'free trial' timeframe. In the case of farcaster that's probably casting and receiving a like / reply in response. A read-only version wouldn't allow people to experience the core value