Farcaster

a strange thing is happening…

Farcaster is growing again. And it’s because of the third party dev projects, like aethernet, clanker and anon, not Warpcast’s feature development over the last months. 

Open + composable social primitives where every account has a wallet is what makes Farcaster special and different to X and alternatives.

Perhaps it’s time to admit that “Only Warpcast can grow DAUs, so let’s deprioritize enabling third party devs to build things, in the name of Warpcast’s scarce resources towards growing DAUs” was a mistake and lock in?

this thread has many imp points which deserve a thoughtful dialogue.
- whether crypto txns/activity feed needs to be a first class citizen on warpcast or other frens apps and interfaces take care of it?
- 3rd party apps on FC graph need to fight for distribution vs. warpcast the conundrum is real - building for the ecosystem vs. fighting your own battle (raise vc$, compete with WC)
- if growth is the north star. either WC takes full responsibility of bulldozing forward (fast iteration) OR let 3p apps build new experiences/vectors to bring net new users. For the latter, 3p devs need to be set up for success. 
- if Warpcast feed is the breeding ground for growth and app frames are the most imp lego for 3p devs.

https://warpcast.com/phil/0x2dc06624

good take. the only thing i'll change is that it doesn't matter if anything done in the past is/was a mistake or not. pre-pmf every team has to have a chip on their shoulder. you either win, or learn. 
it's time to look ahead and really embrace developer innovation on FC. there is a deadly combination at play today - critical mass of competent devs + great legos built on FC. this doesn't exist anywhere else (yet!)

lock and load the for the latter 👇 

"- if growth is the north star. either WC takes full responsibility of bulldozing forward (fast iteration) OR let 3p apps build new experiences/vectors to bring net new users. For the latter, 3p devs need to be set up for success. "

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

good take. the only thing i'll change is that it doesn't matter if anything done in the past is/was a mistake or not. pre-pmf every team has to have a chip on their shoulder. you either win, or learn. 
it's time to look ahead and really embrace developer innovation on FC. there is a deadly combination at play today - critical mass of competent devs + great legos built on FC. this doesn't exist anywhere else (yet!)

lock and load the for the latter 👇 

"- if growth is the north star. either WC takes full responsibility of bulldozing forward (fast iteration) OR let 3p apps build new experiences/vectors to bring net new users. For the latter, 3p devs need to be set up for success. "

https://warpcast.com/sahil/0x01a2262e