Farcaster Devs

⭐️ New Release: Hosted Manifests

Create a fully-validated Mini App manifest in under 10 seconds - just a couple clicks from desktop, no phone needed.

We host, auto-cache-bust, and you keep the same security plus the option to fork the file back to your own server whenever you want.

Link and video below

Miniapp Devs: building manifests just got a lot easier 

Fill out the form and farcaster will host your manifest for you. All you need to do is redirect from your website to ours to get an easy way to update manifests.

Running an experiment where we're giving casts from new users a bit more of a boost in feeds for the first 30 days. 

Appreciate any feedback (positive or negative) about this.

my career path (quote cast with yours!):

1) investment banking (fintech)
2) structured finance (cmbs: commercial mortgage-backed securities)
3) online advertising, startups (search + display operations & optimization)
4) online advertising, public company (display media sales)
5) growth marketing consultant, startups
6) live mobile streaming influencer/content creation
7) founder (elementus, social forensics)

my career path (qc with yours) 

1. pm @ microsoft, moving ms office to the cloud
2. founder @ soundfocus, helping people with hearing loss use smart phones 
3. engineering @ coinbase
4. founder @ farcaster

Farcaster Spam Check

Do you know someone who is human (and not being spammy) who is incorrectly classified as spammy in the dataset? 

Please reply with their username, and we'll take a look to see if something went wrong.

4K+ accounts have tipped via @noiceapp

535K (following/followers) relationships among said accounts.. map visualizes interconnectedness

1) Communities: algorithmically determined

2) Neynar User Scores: lighter nodes = better scores

3) Farcaster Rewards: earners = pink

4) Tip Counts: darker nodes = more tips

Help, I'm addicted to these

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Hn-pNxtByM&t=944s

BREAKING: Trump calls on Iran to surrender

i'm really happy that @unusualwhales is on here and active.

Stocks/Options/Crypto/Market News +Tools. Not advice. 

I’m the 🐳 who changed Congress .

Rough day for pump on the X app. 

First account turned off, now I'm getting promoted this.

Wallet now shows % changes in 24 hr price!

h/t @slokh for this

Fixed a lot of small issues causing some swaps to fail. 

Swap success rate should be significantly improved, and will continue to get better. 

h/t to @slokh for improvements.

Things we are going to improve soon: 

- Fluctuating follow counts 
- False positive spam labels 
- Notifications getting too noisy

Anything else annoying you?

Really enjoyed this Dwarkesh episode with Victor about Xi.

Really enjoyed this Dwarkesh episode with Victor about Xi.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1TeeIG6Uaw

I spend way too much time thinking about the skin color in the emoji that I use

I understand why they added skin tones but I kinda wish we could’ve just all aligned around the yellow ones and called it a day

i built something at microsoft that used red and green smiley faces. 

it was only an internal tool, but hr told me that it wouldn't be ok to ship because it might be racially insensitive. 

they said, without flinching, that i should go back to the yellow smiley faces.

Farcaster

home feed quality feels better. recent algo changes to surface more of my friends at the top?

we use clicks on casts as a signal to show you more from the author. 

this had a surprisingly big impact, because when you see a conversation in the feed you're very likely to click on it and, counter-intuitively, less likely to hit like because you already took an action on it. 

h/t to @akshaan and @lokpray

swe @farcaster || prev: NEAR, Nethermind, Berkeley

How far away are we from a simple ZK passport implementation?

Would let Farcaster users verify an email or passport without disclosing sensitive information. 

Key word is simple (i.e, can build a working FC prototype in a day).

@kylegalbraith and Jacob are hiring for Depot in Europe. 

We use Depot a lot at Farcaster HQ to speed up our Github CI builds. Great team to join if you love building for developers.

@kylegalbraith and Jacob are hiring for Depot in Europe. 

We use Depot a lot at Farcaster HQ to speed up our Github CI builds. Great team to join if you love building for developers.   

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/depot/jobs/NdCr76D-enterprise-support-engineer

A petition to @dwr.eth @v @woj.eth and the rest of the Farcaster team to enable us to remove followers from our accounts 🙏🏼

Why is this important?

The Farcaster Rewards algorithm prioritizes accounts with less followers who are more active. As a result, accounts with larger but inactive followings don’t receive good scores and suffer the consequences

X allows people to remove followers from accounts and I don’t see a reason why Farcaster cannot do the same

Inactive followers do not hurt your chances of winning rewards. We only look at active followers

Launch Jam

daily-jam

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

nf.td/varun

Varun Srinivasan

@v

Mini Apps

daily-jam - Farcaster Mini Apps