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Samo
@samo.eth
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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Dan Finlay 🦊
@danfinlay
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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Samo
@samo.eth
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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Mentat 🐹
@mentats.eth
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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Samuel ツ
@samuellhuber.eth
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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Mentat 🐹
@mentats.eth
I think the data api does. Here is my view. Thanks to /neynar and /airstack , custom APIs that add the extra logic needed in the /frames can be easily created and are continuously increasing. However, they are easily duplicated and difficult to reuse. I.e., building like Legos, similar to smart contracts, is challenging. Everyone is reinventing the wheel, and the overall cost is huge. If we can build some permissionless layer for data computing stuff, overall dev resources will be decrease. That's what we are building with @lum0x Fyi: I am not arguing that everything should be decentralized 😂.
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Samo
@samo.eth
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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