Samo on Warpcast

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How much platform risk is a founder taking by building on Farcaster? Very significant iyam... The full article is also a great read: https://medium.com/@lucarestagno/ive-sold-my-4th-saas-as-a-solopreneur-the-backstory-4e6195c305be

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Biggest platform risk rn imo is probably from depending on proprietary apis/indexes. Everything else is technically open, but if you need to get off them at some point, it might just be too much work to keep you nimble and in business.

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Yes, exactly: what if the API becomes private. And it’s not that they’d do it NOW; but it’s a risk, same as it was with Twitter: bye bye clients.

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It is the crucial point. Even now, the protocol is permissionless, but the actual infrastructure to build Frame is centralized. Accordingly, devs suffer integrity issues. I put my best effort to build permissionless layer for permissionless data layer for FC

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Which part of the frame infra is most centralized? Frames to me are actually fine. Clients is where you‘re stuck in Warpcast dependency hell

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And this is just the dev side, Samuel. It’s similar on the user side, since Warp is the only onboarding path - when you join and have limited basic features (no video, memes, long form, stats, scheduling, etc)…

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Dev side implies user side since dev needs to build it for the user

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Someone needs to be reminded about this 😅 The user still can't share memes, media or long form content on THE ONLY onboarding app available on FC....

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Long casts aren’t long enough? On Twitter I also can’t unless I thread (or pay)

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You also pay on FC, we had this discussion before :) Threads + Scheduling is 10USD with Super At least on Twitter you get everything when you're paying...

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Haha yeah that’s why I am saying it 😘 But dang I agree Warpcast‘s immediate goal should be providing creator tools the top .1% of creators use daily Or making it as easy as possible for anyone else to do Then we can retain them once the dabble on Warpcast imo

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