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the feed feels stale these past 2 weeks with attention on X for trump/biden, lack of anything exciting in crypto (sorry, prove me wrong), ethCC, and general summer offlineness. so plz reply with a hot take or an exciting project or something anything that will give @randomerror.eth’s back a break from carrying us all

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If you build your core product on the back of service provider startups that haven't been battle-tested or proven themselves, you shouldn't complain when those startups fail and make your product function poorly And it's your job as a founder and the brand behind the product to communicate throughout its lifecycle

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Soooo what about building on top of Farcaster?

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What whitelabel products are built on Farcaster? Platform risk is a continuum

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cc @nonlinear.eth or @jtgi or @slokh or @buoy or @defikaran.eth and any others who have experiencing building on / adjacent to farcaster

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None of these are whitelabeled

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Both /automod and /glass are farcaster-native and have a hard dependency on Merkle and the network growing. It's both risk & opportunity. On one hand, things might change to make your app obsolete, on the other a) its early so there's less competition, and b) Merkle is actually well intentioned, well staffed and funded so having them on your side I view as a major advantage. As far as Farcaster apps go, yeah, builders should be careful. For ex: don't be long on a use case that a reasonable user would demand Warpcast to implement or could create revenue (payments, decent search). If you are that should just be an acquisition strategy. And it's not wise to have a high burn rate or time preference since its unlikely you can do anything meaningful to move dau. So, my approach is to stay lean and frugal, build cash netural+ businesses that could live for years at current dau. If Farcaster grows, great, well positioned. If not, bummer, at least it was fun.

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As a builder building a socialfi product. It doesn’t make any sense to bootstrap a social network when we already have a composable layer. Given we can customise the discovery as well as experience however. There isn’t much platform risk as well. And b/w available options, Farcaster is the one!

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i think im missing some context because i dont understand how @androidsixteen.eth comment follows yours about the feed being dull. same for comment re: white labeling.

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