Samuel on Warpcast

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"It's impossible to compete with Warpcast" 1. If you're trying to build for the same use case then yes, it will be extremely difficult. Have been saying this since last year. Given the size of the network, there's not enough users for multiple venture-backed businesses. This is why we are so focused on growing the size of the network (which itself requires a supply of content). 2. Try building something that's orthogonal (i.e. not a clone of Warpcast which is largely a clone of Twitter). Or use the social graph permissionlessly (no signers needed) to enhance your onboarding like Drakula, Tavern, Rodeo, Zora, etc. 3. If you still want to build a Warpcast competitor, try starting with a mobile-first onboarding flow -- copy this one. 85% of Warpcast usage is mobile. Yet people keep galaxy braining with a web first strategy and then complain it's too hard to compete. 4. PWA mobile experience will save you time and no App Store, but you will have a much harder time creating habitual DAU.

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Is this bad for the network? - The network is too small to matter yet! We need to get to 10M daily active users — at least 200x growth from here (likely more) before there are enough users for multiple independent Twitter-style client businesses can work. That may even be too small. - That said -- there are opportunities for orthogonal clients, power user clients (e.g. Supercast or Buoy), open source clients (Herocast), passionate projects, performative art clients, DAO-funded clients (e.g. Nouns). - I said "Play a different game" a while back and got mocked. OK, if you want to play the venture-scale (and venture-backed) game, you're self-selecting into a brutal competitive, always thinking about user growth and retention game. And you're competing mostly against Instagram, Twitter, YouTube and Netflix (since time is zero sum and most of it is not on Farcaster).

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too long didn't read summary of the above for anyone into pictures

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