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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.
the alpha is already circulating in the other app
Airdrop Adventure 🧭
@Airdrop_Adv
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Farcaster New NFT Collection is Coming! 🚨
Farcaster [@farcaster_xyz] is dropping a new NFT collection tied to their Pro subscription. Here’s what you need to know:
- NFT: Farcaster Pro Subscription
- Total supply: 10K
- Price: $120/year
- Launching on: May 27th
- Where: Only https://t.co/91Ge1danYB
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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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You think the advantage of a startup is speed? I think of speed more as part of the definition of a startup.
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i think people will subscribe just to get longer posts (and i think this will sell out on tuesday)
and yes, everyday you're not moving, is a day you're dying. its good to move fast - e.g. warps are kinda done for? its taking up valuable space, encourage spend/conversion to usdc, and remove it from the sidebar!
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Respectfully disagree - I think you should ship with at least one actual benefit or change the optics.
Shipping ASAP is important but the goal is to learn. I feel like all you're learning is how many people are 1) fans of Farcaster 2) want to speculate on the value of a future NFT for airdrops. Because of #2, it doesn't even forecast demand.
Instead, I think you should either:
1. Ship with any one feature (eg. 10k characters in a post) and no NFT. At least you learn about how people react to that feature and use it.
2. Rebrand this as a preorder with no max limit that doesn't charge you until functionality is built. Currently, it's a "10k NFT collection" that will mint out due to farmers.
IMO the Warpcast wallet funding badge coincided with a new feature - wallet support - and the purple ring signaled to others to add it too. Separately, minting out patron NFTs are useful for early stage startups with no funding.
I'll still sign up for Pro since I'm a fan even if I think it's bad optics though
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I would like to see Farcaster flourish. For that reason alone I want that badge. The whole year in one go is a bit on the heavy side for me, but I've been swapping some shitcoins and memecoins and other stuff that has been gathering dust in my wallet, so I'm ready to push purchase. Even if you launch it when I sleep and I'm too late for the badge.
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Yup this is why CZ made bajillions with binance vs so many exchanges who were waiting for “regulatory clarity” just got absoluted dusted
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