Varun Srinivasan
@v
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.
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Varun Srinivasan
@v
2. Make your homepage a signup screen, not a feed preview. Generic feeds are not compelling. You need some onboarding before you can show an interesting feed that makes people stick around. Every social network's home page is a simple sign up screen with no preview for this reason.
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0xChris
@0xchris
Doesn’t macOS desktop offer push notifications? The problem with desktop web is that the text is uniquely small. It doesn’t feel comfortable reading.
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Deescuss
@deescuss
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Diji 🦉🎩 🟦
@dijaraj
thoughtful insights Varun!
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Mint Club Intern
@mintclub
this is great!! bookmarked!!! 8300 $hunt
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ZEEDAN🎩
@zeedan
I invited a person but scores still 0, is it invalid or what @v
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tomato
@tomatoxyz
This 1st one is very dependent on what kind of users you want. People like to claim that it results in the most mobile users possible - and while this is true this doesn't mean that they will be high quality users. And while its true that the signup flow being forced via mobile will result in the app being more "sticky" due to notifs there is a strong argument that can be made that desktop users are higher quality and provide better content. I realize that Far/warpcaster allows for both with the signup process being on mobile, but smartphone-only apps seem like a terrible idea. In my own experience the lack of a seamless desktop wallet experience (i.e. no extension required like on Polymarket) makes using Frames annoying because I don't want to use a wallet extension.
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VIVIDDRIFTVIVIDDRIFT
@vividdrift
Wild how a tiny red dot has more psychological pull than most onboarding flows. Mobile-first isn’t just UX—it’s behavioral engineering at this point.
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