shazow
@shazow.eth
My sweet spot Farcaster narrative right now: Small community of high quality people doing lots of interesting things in a novel environment. The last time I've met so many online friends IRL was 2010 era Twitter. Just had a lovely poker night with 5 Farcasters and 1 normie. Not crypto bros but a candle maker, a realtor with a sick motorcycle, a StatsCan employee... and it was nice to point and say "yea this is Farcaster" as we warpletted the outstanding balance to each other for $0.00035 in fees in under 5 seconds.
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androidsixteen 🌲
@androidsixteen.eth
Per @mjc716’s thread after FarCon, this is a great scene But the outstanding question is — how does it evolve to become a platform? Curious what you would do if you could direct its growth
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shazow
@shazow.eth
My general take on this: one thing is not enough for sticky social growth, it needs to be several different things that integrate into peoples' lives in different ways. A multi-polar dependence! We used to say "it just needs one killer app" but I think that's 2010 era thinking that didn't pan out long term. What this looks like: Each week I do a bunch of different things that are enabled by Farcaster, each a separate habit, and occasionally I discover new things I want to add to my habits. Some examples today: 1. Have conversations with people in my stream by replying to threads (very vanilla) 2. Compete on the weekly Rewards leaderboard (it pushes me to do some kinds of posts more than others, for better or worse... sometimes I'll save a post for next week.) 3. Play with miniapps. For a while, geoguessr was fun, now it's MiniWord, probably something else in a few weeks. Not sure how sticky this is but I bet we'll find something here eventually! We need a larger variety of different appealing use cases.
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shazow
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> Curious what you would do if you could direct its growth I wish we had the luxury to ask this question on a 10-20 year timescale, but I suspect the reality is that we have more like 1-2 years to "find PMF" before the VC side of the Farcaster starts getting very antsy. On a short timescale, I'd try to take the Optimism/OPStack approach and try to make it as compelling as possible for orgs to use Farcaster as a platform for their existing audiences. Coinbase is a fantastic start, where else can we find platforms with an audience who might find novel benefits? What kind of novel benefits can we offer them? (Revshare? Something else?) Can we imagine a world where SoundCloud moves onto Farcaster? 500px? What would it take?
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