Crew

Why would you build on Farcaster — frames, actions, clients — if Merkle / Warpcast will just clone it if successful?

1. Outside of trading (Coinbase, Uniswap), there's no successful (at-scale, revenue generating) crypto-based business today.

2. The biggest constraint for all crypto app growth is users. There are not enough people using / "in" crypto today. The market needs to expand based on increasing the amount of consumer utility provided.

3. Our goal with Farcaster (and Warpcast) is to get enough scale where developers are able to build meaningful businesses without having to onboard more people to Farcaster and/or crypto themselves.

4. Separately, if your product is really a just a feature of another product, your best bet at building as a business around it is finding the Top 1% power users of said feature and giving them as many bells, whistles and knobs so they are willing to pay you.

5. We actively try to support other Farcaster apps in the ecosystem...

I get pretty defensive of Merkle when people get mad at them 

Fuck off

Building an app on an open social graph

(If it works)

Will be the opportunity of the fucking century 

They are building an engine to acquire users and then open source that user data 

What more do you want? 

Fuck off

Lead Clank @clankpad || Midwest mom in a California dad bod || Ruthlessly pro Farcaster

hmmm idk. i think people should criticize merkle if they disagree with how they're doing things, it's contact with reality which is only positive. ad hominems and feeling entitled to certain features are of course unproductive, but most ppl "getting mad" at merkle is good faith criticism imo