Farcaster

Alright, 3 days in.

1. Building a miniapp is way faster iteration for a client.. but ya still gotta build the client. You should 100% build a miniapp first.

2. An indie backend lift is still very non-trivial and mixing these authentication frameworks is not good for Farcaster newbies.

Mini Apps

when you're a small dev team with limited resources, building a mini-app versus building a standalone web app or native app is essentially going "all-in"

I get what you're saying though and I don't disagree with you. I've tried native app first, frames 1.0 -> web app, mini app first, web app first to possible mini app after enough traction.

I'm just going to take advantage of the distribution that's out there and try everything until we get a hit. Thank you for shipping the building blocks!

Which way anon?

https://farcaster.xyz/christopher/0x1f3fe9e6
https://farcaster.xyz/peter/0xea685ee4

Building a miniapp when you Ship Fast™️ is very much not going all-in.

We have a built a totally native everything client, end-to-end. Miniapp is ez mode that helps validate that critical social hook. We figured it out building a React Native client, but would do it with a miniapp if Day 0.

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I say "all-in" and I'm getting sacrificed for it. Yes, building a mini-app is faster. Yes, combining a mini-app and a normal web-app is more nuanced for certain apps.

I like building on Farcaster. @ace and I have used almost every building block that Farcaster has put out in some way. At the end of the day, I'm just trying to build something and get eyeballs on it.

If my opinion came off a certain way to people, there's nothing I can really do there.

building @revealcam | previously @perl, cofounder SBLY.com, eng at Stripe | alum South Park Commons | peter-kim.com

I agree with some parts of your take fwiw. A miniapp needs to be tightly coupled with a social hook, not an entire focus. But it feels fairly trivial to build a miniapp relative to the longer venture of a client.

I haven't experienced any roadblocks yet.