How to send DMs (that actually get a reply)

I got all my lucky breaks from just messaging people and helping people out   

But here's the thing - most people suck at asking for stuff 

If you're going to send someone a cold DM, don't just say 'hi' or 'I love your work'. Seriously, what are you expecting them to say to this?

Instead:

• Bring value 
• Start a conversation 
• Ask a good question 

It won't work every time, of course, but it increases your chances of success far beyond 0%

Study this picture. It's short, but shows initiative, high agency, passion, curiostiy and a lot more. Don't ask, don't get

Drop the “I understand your time is valuable…” otherwise pretty good.

Silicon Valley Daily

Haven't read it yet but this is a write up of the Browser Company's CEO finally sharing about basically abandoning Arc to pursue Dia

https://open.substack.com/pub/browsercompany/p/letter-to-arc-members-2025

Browsers ceased to be an at-scale consumer platform independent of distribution after Internet Explorer was released and crushed Netscape.

There was a brief moment where Mozilla Firefox (thanks to IE6 stagnation) might have proven a counterfactual, but Google and Apple won the browser market on mobile and then desktop because of distribution.

Consumers are fine if the default is good enough. Hard to make it 10x better.

we've rolled out a new experimental feature to bankr club members! airdrops right in the social feed! supported on Farcaster and X! 

this is a great way to engage with your audience. so how does it work?

step 1: create a cast for people to reply to
step 2: quote cast your original cast and tag @bankr with your airdrop instructions. 

oh and by the way .. comment "ok bankr" below — first 100 people get $5 of $BNKR airdropped.

People have been trying to make online tipping work for nearly 20 years.

During the last 18 months, I've seen more experiments on Farcaster than I've seen on the rest of the web in the last two decades. Each iteration is better, more powerful, more frictionless. I'm sure someone will eventually nail it.

I often hear that "people don't care", but this is the power of permissionless rails.

microtransactions are working on Farcaster

The revolution in organ transplants is here thanks to gene editing.

A 62-year-old man on dialysis needed a new kidney. Doctors implanted him with a pig's kidney that had been given 69 edits to be human-compatible.

He immediately stopped needing dialysis. https://t.co/T455ZD1Kht

Crémieux

Seems underrated?

https://x.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/1926751272620707965

borodutch

create autonomous memecoins for free, get rewarded for posting bangers

the time has cometh

@clanker launch a token named "Farcaster PRO" with a symbol "PRO"

vault 50% of the supply for 10 days

will do an airdrop

Screens

First Draft Club

A lot has happened this week and there are a few things you cannot afford to miss:

1. Farcaster Pro Subscriptions are coming Tuesday. $120 for 1 year. Payable with USDC on Base. 

An NFT will come with them…eventually. It’s the same art for the first 10,000 subscribers. I do not think we will hit 10,000. We would have fought for 1,000 but the team heard that feedback and expanded it. On day 1, the only thing you get is a badge. It will be purple. Eventually you will get expanded casts length and 4 photos instead of 2, but there is no ETA. The proceeds will go to fund the weekly rewards leaderboard and the developer rewards for mini apps. 
It’s 100% optional. It will not help your engagement. It will not help your reach. It won’t help your spam label. It won’t help you get verified. It’s to show support for Farcaster and that’s it. Monthly will come later. You can speculate on the value of 10,000 copies of the same NFT art.  Think about it and be sure you understand it.

farcaster doesn't realize how lucky we all are here that @pichi is spearheading listening to the quiet voices of farcaster 

she alone did more for people behind the spam label (who were put there erroneously) than anybody else on the ecosystem

🙏🙏🙏

Pi-chi.eth (she/her) Artist /animeoutcasts
Hosting: /sakura /kyoto /momiji  /anime-manga /farcasterunion

https://portrait.so/pichi

Food

ffs i can never get vibe coding to work, neither with o4-mini-high, nor with claude 3.7 sonnet thinking inside vscode copilot chat

what's the trick? how do you guys vibecode beyond code autocompletion?

do you keep talking to ai when it gets it wrong? what do you do when it breaks stuff instead of fixing it?

I’m old enough to remember when the only game on here was Flappy Bird

At Santa Monica’s Farmers Market

“Nice podcast bro” fist bump from random guy pushing stroller

lol

Design

Before / After ... Laptop bag made from the original interior of a 1960 Pontiac Catalina

This account makes bags from old car interiors. Makes me smile every time I see a cast from it in my feed.

🧑‍💻 Guide to Claim Testnet MON

🩵 Head to: https://warpcast.com/miniapps/A-KBmnCqg5mh/monad-farcaster-faucet
- It will redirect you to warpcast
- Click on "Sign in with Farcaster"
- Connect wallet
- Click claim and confirm transaction
- Go back after 6 hours to claim again.

CryptoTrader

@crypto37