Dan Romero on Farcaster

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Why ship Farcaster Pro with just a badge? Why not wait until the other benefits are ready? 1. It’s optional. If you think that’s dumb, you can either wait to subscribe or just skip subscribing completely. 2. For startups, every day you delay something matters. Every time you say “this thing is different and worth delaying” you degrade your one true advantage as a startup: speed. It compounds. And then a few years later when it ultimately doesn’t work out, you likely missed out on something like 100% more opportunities to ship. Action produces information. Your pre-product-market-fit startup is not Apple.

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Speaking of not delaying, perhaps permissively licensed OSS codebase in 30 days if it sells out? :3

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We’re going to MIT license open source the mobile and web clients this summer. No backend. Like BlueSky does. We will start with a flattened one time and then work our way to continuous release. We won’t accept PRs. Strictly for a reference client. I don’t expect anyone to run a production service with a fork. Too much infra.

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The reason we haven’t done it: 1) takes effort 2) have had higher priorities. But ticking up the priority list.

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Good start, and agree with your decision to not accept PRs (at least from the start, no reason to complicate things). Hopefully we as a community can march towards more minimal infra options down the line. Thank you going down this path! ❤️❤️

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What’s the point of only open sourcing the frontend? Anyone can build a frontend with neynar in like 10 mins

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I think accepting PRs might be a good thing - more can contribute, takes the burden off writing to just reviewing code. Also, this is insanely bullish on farcaster - opensource wins

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Keeping the backend closed source is not keeping with the principles of web3 https://farcaster.xyz/arseniy.eth/0x59d8145e

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Keeping the backend closed source is not keeping with the principles of web3

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