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TL;DR: Thoughtful, consistent, growth-focused presentation from people that have earned my trust for doing what they say they'll do year after year after year. Engineer-y, serious, and warm vibes all around.
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My Notes:
The day was overwhelmingly positive but coming from me that should surprise no one.
On the Presentation:
- "I really like Dan and Varun" - at the end of the day I was telling Linda my thoughts; might as well share publicly. You're smart, logical, consistent. It comes through in your presentations. Was talking to Abram about how you can't build trust without lots of time. I know you're asking about feedback on a single presentation, but you've been at this for 5 years so when I'm at devday listening to you speak I'm bringing a sense of trust that you guys have earned.
- What I love most hearing you and V speak is your consistency in messaging. It's been almost 3 years since I first learned about Farcaster and here's what I keep hearing: a.) if you dont solve for growth nothing else matters, b.) growth needs to come in several orders of magnitude, c.) you will keep trying different things, with disciplined, maniacal focus until you figure it out. >> People can get upset when you change priorities or strategies (devs should build alt clients! no, just frames and miniapps! we're onboarding journalists and creators! channels is the key! investing in vertical video! crypto everywhere and everything!), but they can't ever accuse you of lying or being disingenuous.
- About the content of the presentation itself and the thinking behind the "Discover Trade Create" direction - all the logic and reasoning behind this direction make perfect sense. For now. So just GO GO GO. Get that growth.
- The presentation was entirely merkle focused, "here's what we are doing to drive growth" vs. developer-focused "here's what we are doing to make it easier for you to develop on Farcaster". As an indy dev, I would love if it was easier to develop on farcaster, if there was a dev rel team, if the miniapp SDK and documentation worked out of the box everytime etc etc. But, seeing things thru the lens of focus and growth I'm totally happy and understand.
On the day itself:
- Hanging out with farcaster devs is my happy place. It was awesome being in the room and getting face time with people.
- Loved meeting merkle team, horse, deodad, shane, linda, daniel - first class people, so kind, generous, hard working.
- Loved talking tech with people like grin and maxp, they both helped me unlock something about one of my projects I was struggling with. There's magic to being in the same place.
- massive kudos to linda and emma. Logistics were smooth as butter.
On the vibes:
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