Farcaster

1/ On Farcaster growing and "changing"

When we talk to developers, the number one thing they want is retained user growth.

When we talk to early users, they don't want to lose the cozy feel of the network when it had fewer than <10K users.

2/ The goal is build a protocol that one day has 1 billion DAU. That requires developers to build dozens if not hundreds of interesting apps and services.

We need to solve the existential problem (user growth) or this ends up as a science experiment.

But the beautiful thing about a permissionless protocol...

Seems like you often waver between who is going to bring these users. On one hand you make it seem like it's MM's job to do it, and DAUs is the most important thing, then you say that it's about devs and the apps they'll build to bring/retain users. :-)

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There's a lot of value in building on top of an open, premissionless protocol. Also, an alternative outcome is many small apps/use cases uniquely satisfied by many "small" apps.
Not saying this take is the right take, but it may be a possibility.

BTW, don't get me wrong: I think you guys are doing an exceptional work balancing user base growth, DX, openness and flexibility given resource constraints.

I think we're consistent on this: developers are going to come to Farcaster when user growth is consistent and 10-100x where we are today. Warpcast / MM needs to figure this out (since if someone else was able to do that why do it for a protocol vs. their own?).