HIGHER

sponsoring the higher airdrop was worth every penny

i read every post in the higher channel today—it's inspiring seeing people openly share their ambitions: the author determined to finish writing his first book, someone committing to getting fit, the founder hustling to land their first user, a creator that wants launch their newsletter, and the person deciding it's finally time to learn how to code

believing you're destined for more is the first step to achieving it, and there is no upper bound

higher

i commit to do 270lbs bench press at least for 6 reps this year

my goal for the year is to deadlift his bench

this is what being in an anatoly vid must feel like

If you are using hubs in production today, can you please reply? 

Want to make sure we work with you to migrate to snapchain over the next 3 weeks.

Has anyone incorporated LinkedIn verifications into their product?

The token is $lemon3
0xe0907762B1D9cdfBE8061aE0Cc4A0501fa077421

If this works, I'll use the profits to work on lemon3 for the next few months. Or more, I think I'd love to work for long on this. Join me.

The latest (and sadly last) season of What We Do In The Shadows is really, really good.

If you haven't watched it, its one of the funniest shows on tv right now.

this interaction with @bracky is the “aha” moment for me. 

i know nothing about college basketball but have enough knowledge of the nba to formulate some opinions on what could make a successful team. 

bracky allows me to actually research + action those opinions all through my feed. without bracky, i wouldnt know where to search for the most defensively efficient teams with the best 3 point shooting percentage. 

bracky also searched historical data on teams to see how teams with high defensive efficiency performed in march madness. 

finally being able to recommend an optimal split between the top 3 teams in defensive efficiency with half my portfolio allocation and use the other 50% to balance my port on overall high efficiency teams was massive. 

there’s zero chance i could’ve done any of this on my own. paired with the frame (when open) to allow me to track/trade manually, this is absolutely huge. 

major kudos to @tldr and team for building this

Great example of how airdrops + frames + fun apps can work together to create something big

A few counter intuitive things we've learned building FC: 

1. Make people sign up on mobile

Push notifications and little red dots on the home screen are the lifeblood of social apps. Most users who sign up on web will simply forget to come back.

Here's some infrastructure code to run a snapchain node on kubernetes with persistent storage - https://github.com/standard-crypto/snapchain-gcp

Don't force users to add a profile pic at sign up. Use whether they add a pfp later a signal as to whether they care enough about their app identity to add one.

@nikitabier has made a counter point which I’ve come to appreciate which is that adding friction in onboarding is not always a bad thing. 

If it helps meaningfully with retention and engagement, it’s often worth doing. 

For us, requiring pfp only causes a 0.1% dropoff but makes real profiles look more legit and spammer easy to identify

Seeing an issue with image uploads. Investigating.

DC Search now works on web too! 

Search inside any conversation from the search bar. h/t to @ashoat.eth

what we're working on to make frames better rn:

- rebranding from Frames -> Mini Apps
- a new, llm friendly standalone docs site
- rethinking developer tooling from the ground up
- a 1.0 of the frames-sdk with improvements to type-safety, error handling, security, and hooks for better debugging
- new APIs for viewing and swapping tokens, composing casts
- continued improvement to Explore and Rewards

@deodad @horsefacts.eth and @gabrielayuso.eth are cranking on some big improvements for frame devs. 

coming next week.

The open web is dead, long live the open web. ⌐◨-◨

Building /warpcast and /farcaster

— gabrielayuso.com

I'm eth newbie..just learning
(working on @farcaster)

terminally.online

Building @warpcast and @farcaster / dad / like to read, cook, ski, code

me: there are no rewards for running a farcaster / snapchain node

everyone else:

There is an easter egg in this block, 50 USDC for the first to find it. 

You can fetch the block data by running your own node here: https://github.com/farcasterxyz/snapchain

building mini-apps /builders-garden /farville /just-frame-it | hosting a web3 hub in rome /urbe-eth /ethrome 🇮🇹🐺

https://limone.lol

First Snapchain block officially mined! 

Will be spending the next week backfilling all data to snapchain before it's ready to be used. `

There is an easter egg in this block, 50 USDC for the first to find it. 

You can fetch the block data by running your own node here:

Farcaster

since the signup fee is a massive barrier for new users, why not:
- delay the registration fee by X days/weeks
- encourage users to cast to earn rewards
- deduct the fee from warplet

smoother onboarding + more bangers = win-win

am I missing something? @dwr.eth @v

kicking around some ideas to improve this right now. 

the biggest contender is storage delegation. allow any account to purchase storage for itself or to redirect the storage to another account. 

apps can basically pay onboarding fees for all their users but reclaim them if they detect that someone is spammy. 

users can always self host just like today if no app wants to host them.

what caused the recent spike in DAUs? we almost got to a new ATH if i'm not mistaken

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

nf.td/varun