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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raulonastool.eth 🎩 🏰
@raulonastool
Should a successful third-party app or feature get absorbed into the Warpcast client, are the original developers rewarded? Or is it free market competition?Top example that comes to mind is the Pay feature. I'm assuming there were behind the scenes conversations to get the developers of Paybot and Payflow involved?
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Rob Sanchez
@robrecht
they told us they were thinking about adding the pay feature, sent designs, asked for feedback, and shared how they thought about integrating our product into the feature. the implementation they shipped is really supportive of us as third-party devs imo (better ux for our product and more distribution/discoverability)
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