Tony D’Addeo
@deodad
It’s 10x easier (still hard) to build a Warpcast level FC client than it was 4 years ago - Farcaster exists - Hubs exists - SIWF exists - Neynar exists - 10s of thousands of potential daily users exist plus more people onboarding all the time schlep problem and skill issue (@woj.eth excluded)
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Stephan
@stephancill
It’s not hard at all to build a simple client for 100 users if you use neynar (my lukewarm take is that it’s actually easy) Warpcast level i.e. performant real-time algo feed, Apple Pay onboarding, cross platform, direct messages, warps, polish, etc) is too much for hobbyists imo and ROI is unclear for companies
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Stephan
@stephancill
Forgot to add dealing with spam*
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Stephan
@stephancill
Being able to easily build a social app for a hundred users on top of farcaster is a great achievement btw
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tomu
@tomu.eth
why would anyone want to build another warpcast-style client tho?
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Tony D’Addeo
@deodad
agreed! still hard and expensive but much less so than starting from nothing
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JunyaoC
@junyaoc
Cool, but why should people try to build another client? Also in alternative clients, does the casts still persist?
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