Sunday AMA - ask me anything on your mind or share your most recent annoyance with farcaster 


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Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

nf.td/varun

Chasing Curiosity. Pluralist. Empathetic Accelerationist. Founding Engineer @icebreaker. YC S16, KB7, fid:66
icbk.me/tayyab.fc

Avoid side quests.

Know what your main quests are and focus on them.

How do you balance health, family, work, and relationships? Looking for a non-generic answer :)

Normie truned into degen in FC | I'm mostly JK | Host /venting /burrfrens | mod /impact /byegary

- comfortably numb
- great gig in the sky 
- shine on you crazy diamond

Elevating onchain creators @brightmoments @ampsfun @nodefoundation

- 1:1 tutoring or expert advice
- ChatGPT 
- YouTube videos 
- read a book 

Some combination of above depending on how critical the skill is

What is your process for teaching yourself something new?

1. That CRDT based sync would scale to millions of DAU

2. 10 and 10. But I have changed my pov on what parts need to be decentralized, when and how 

3. Rarely have long term disagreements (maybe never?) but have a lot of short term ones about should we do X or Y this week

When Farcaster token? JK! 

1. What did you strongly believe about building Farcaster in Jan 2024 that you no longer believe? 
2. How important is it for Farcaster to be decentralized 1-10, give a number for Varun 2023 and for Varun 2025. 
3. What do you and Dan most consistently disagree on wrt building Farcaster?

what's one change you'd make to warpcast if you were its benevolent dictator?

Software developer, open source enthusiast, privacy advocate.

Clear Wallet Open-source privacy focused wallet: https://clear-wallet.flashsoft.eu/


This is a very hostile way to ask a question! 

The answer is that to do all of those things you’d need access to an Ethereum address on your desktop, and the only way to securely do that is to build a chrome extension, and I believe that’s a bad UX

Why the desktop version of warpcast doesn't support login with wallet and SWIF, and managing signers when hundreds if not thousands of users have imported their custody PK into their wallets?

This has been possible for years but was actively avoided without a good reason.

Is this a strategy to force people using a mobile device even if technically they don't need one?

musican. ai artiste. 

designed the channel icon for /relationships

Still thinking on it and processing peoples feedback

Working on Farcaster and Warpcast. Longer thoughts at https://dwr.email

My casts are immutable, but my opinions might get a soft fork.

Followed by @woj.eth 🎖️

Yes, a little bit. 

We don’t want a repeat of early moxie incentive behavior where people get flooded with low quality replies so thinking about how to do that mechanically

Should replies count toward engagement rewards? If so, how should it be measured? 

cc @dwr.eth 👀

What's the overlap with World's Mini Apps and Farcaster's Mini Apps? Is there any, or is this going to be an unfortunate namespace battle?

A doodler and computerer. I like permissive/permissionless open source, smart contracts, p2p systems, room-scale VR, and NixOS.

shazow.net

Currently: WhatsABI

A lot of teams are building miniapps - telegram, world, base, farcaster. 

There is no namespace battle imo - every platform will have its own labeled miniapp store. 

The stands will overlap quite a bit so it’s easy for people to port apps, but they won’t be exactly the same due to differences between each platform

What's the overlap with World's Mini Apps and Farcaster's Mini Apps? Is there any, or is this going to be an unfortunate namespace battle?
https://docs.world.org/mini-apps

I love movies and used to watch them a lot when I was younger but I don’t know if any had a significant impact on changing me as a person. 

Books on the other hand have

what’s the one film that you would choose had the biggest impact in how you interact with the world and yourself?

Be specific.    
Building productscore.org, @germanify // leonasskau.co.uk // Hosting /geopolitics, /strategy, /leo
d33m:mun

Chuck wood, at least I don’t have to go to the gym anymore

Would you rather chuck wood as a career or sell seashells?

Playing “The SIMS Pets” except this feels real. Cannelle is dog. Cruella is cat. I am mother.

Not for a while, I don’t think marketing is a core problem relative to other things we’re prioritizing.

When are you going to make a marketing team and hire me? 🤭🤗

working on meta.matcha.xyz, yc alum, @orangedao

- organized into 3 teams crypto, social protocol
- one person on each team plays the role of lead to coordinate work
- i come in every day to a 30 min stand up with team with priorities 
- we figure out who works on what and ship and repeat 

we do designs, specs etc as needed based on complexity of feature. no formal process.

how are teams structured in merkle team to ships features asap? (eg 1 dev per feature, blokheim does design for every feature, everyone makes own KPI dashboard?)

do you make PRDs for features?

ai.jam.so  🔗
🐿️ Build creator economy with AI @jamai


Just an Artist🧑‍🎨 currently holding it all together with duct tape and good vibes

I don’t think they lied or forced or deceived anyone at this point, which is my gut check for “is it a scam”. 

They have a token mechanic which doesn’t make sense to me - you have to lock up funds for a long time, they price may go down and they may sell while your funds are locked up . But they didn’t lie about this. 

Everyone is aware and can just not participate.

@jam project 
The fact that it's a completely obvious scam and your best response is basically 

If you dont like the way they scam don't participate

Artist from the future.

NFTs since 1998.

Bitcoin since 1985.

Your second favorite artist's second favorite artist.

https://manifold.gallery/tomato

I can't play videos that have sound in the android app without them becoming extremely jerky and eventually dashing the app.

which startup founder (one you've met in person, other than brian armstrong) has impressed you the most?

Digital Media Producer. I like particles and waves too. I like art.

good question, will write up more details in the verifications notion page. 

tl;dr - it comes down to how much you trust our security. we'll provide as much detail as we can about it.

I was going to ask this during the dev call, but  I was also running a show, so couldn’t at the time. I’m all for the verifications that we’re going through, but what assurance do you have for us that there won’t be a massive data leak that points my wallet to my e-mail to my phone number?

How are these things being kept?

lets get to the best version faster - follow @1dolinski · challenge your habits · click to say hi to my ai https://getfirstresponder.com/talk/1dolinski

yes we've considered it, but have gotten some feedback in the opposite direction that its really overwhelming for some mods. 

seems like a more niche feature that some mods would use but not others, so lower down on the priority list for now.

Would you consider adding a request to join channel button?

- visible mods list / ai moderator on channel page
- button to request to join. ability for mods to approve / decline 
- programmatic gating to join channel to alleviate mod responsibility