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McBain
@mcbain
Welcome @pfista to this weeks HumpDay AMA! He's been building on Farcaster more deeply than most, ask away!
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Zach Davidson
@zd
What originally got you excited about search, and how did that lead you to build on Farcaster?
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Michael Pfister
@pfista
I was actually excited first about alerts. Many of my products came from thinking about how I could productize APIs: iOS 16 PWA Notifications -> alerty.dev Lob Check Sending API -> check.supply Way before Buoy, I built Alerty when iOS 16 added native notifications for PWAs. Then I used @andyjagoe's alertcaster.xyz webhooks at the time to get notified anytime someone mentioned "contract / gig / part-time" on farcaster- and found a decent amount of contract work this way :) I'd been on Farcaster a while and built a bunch of small projects like sharecaster.xyz and farcast.club, but hadn't put any real effort towards a larger product. After some convincing I got @jj on board and we set out to build a really good alerting engine using Farcaster primitives, which turned into Buoy. As it turned out, we started with alerts, but to power it we needed to build a good search engine. So John went and built this great search backend that ended up being a core part of the product today.
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