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Reminder that the overwhelming top request from developers for the last 3 years: user growth. That's why we've been focused on trying to figure out user growth. More users, more people available to use apps. Anyone who tells you otherwise is lying to you.

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it would be very interesting to run an ai analysis of all the replies you have ever written, and screen the casts that you were replying to for the ones that could be considered feedback let’s say that number is N. you have replied N times to people that were giving you direct and constructive feedback i would bet on polymarket that less than 5% of the times you replied with a curious question that invited the user to *feel seen* 95% of the times you were proving your point. that attitude ripples through how things are done, and basil is right when he says that devs have not been treated with a red carpet and honor in here. i feel represented in that. after having built for around 2 years in farcaster and logging in almost basically every day to develop my online presence with authenticity, creativity and truth as the compass i have never felt really *seen* and taken care of my top request as a developer on farcaster has been devrel like the one Lee Robinson did for vercel the next billion users would be a consequence of that IMHO

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Matt pfp

What about enabling developers to help with growing users more? It’s very hard for me. I’m going to need to build a client with embedded wallets and wish that was easier

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Brennen Schlueter

whats the current hypothesis on the best way to get more users?

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jd 🌺 pfp

what is the top request from users

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adrienne pfp

And here I thought animated pfps was #1 Keep cooking 🧑‍🍳

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Let’s take referral program to the next level: 1. Make every link I copy on Farcaster have my referral code in it. 2. If a post doesn’t have an image make a thumbnail with a text excerpt appear when I post on X, etc. so people are interested. 3. Add a “I found this on Farcaster” with my referral link I can share on other sites and thumbnail options above. 4. Add a “continued on Farcaster” link with referral link and thumbnail. Instead of people cross posting, they’ll be incentivized to post here and cross link back to here from other sites. Currently it’s easier to share X on FC than vice versa. Give us a way to share specific great content to show elsewhere and get rewarded for those that signup. I realize this could be a lot of work, but… “user growth”.

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Shira Stember pfp

Thanks for this. I mean who wouldn't want to be considered a smart person doing brave things in public? cc @giftr

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I'm not lying, I never said "more users" is my top request. 😀 (Not that I'm against more users.) And there are a number of other developers who have been asking for other things (and my impression is some of them left the ecosystem when they realized they are not going to be prioritized/happen). What I'm saying is that you listen to a specific type of developers. You reward a specific type of apps. And this creates a feedback loop where "the top dev request is more users". Here's an other metric. Check the number of comments in FIP proposals. There are proposals with significant engagement that never got prioritized. There's also a constant feeling (may be personal pov) that important decisions are made in backchannels. It may be convenient, or more efficient, I'm not judging, but there is no way to hold a discussion when one of the participants has the argument-to-end-all-discussions "this is what devs want". I can go on, for example, how the app has been prioritized as a platform vs the protocol, or the wallet has been prioritized over the rest of the app. But the bottom line is that imho, you have created the environment (technical, devs, etc) that reflects what you believe is the way forward, i.e. large distribution. And all this is to explain why "this is what devs want" triggers me.

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if despite everything you did there is no user growth - would you stop working on farcaster or you would be happy with the cozy corner you built here?

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czar pfp

if despite everything you did there is no user growth - would you stop working on farcaster or you would be happy with the cozy corner you built here?

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Nastya pfp

I'm wondering – are there any growth ideas besides targeting crypto traders? Do you think that’s really a large enough audience to solve the FC user base problem? It would also be interesting to hear more about other types of users you’ve tried to reach in the past (if any outside of crypto) and why those attempts didn’t work out

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supriyo pfp

bingo. and precise

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ruburi pfp

Was there any app that brought attention to Farcaster from the outside? Besides $DEGEN Like something that helped your growth

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KMac pfp

Yeah. Users first is a good strategy. I'm getting soft.

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Coop pfp

@coopahtroopa.eth

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FrameTheGlobe pfp

I’m confused, isn’t that always the strategy. Otherwise what you built is just an echo chamber for fanboys/girls/persons.

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I’m probably one of those “average” users: small following, crypto user, splitting my time between Farcaster and X. On X, I’ve always treated it like an information funnel. I spend time curating my following list just to keep things digestible. Even though I post a lot, it usually feels like talking into the void. That seems to be how big social platforms work — attention clusters around a small group of loud voices, and the rest of us end up mostly consuming rather than contributing. I first tried Farcaster back in its early testing days, drifted away, and came back during the meme coin spring to chase Base alpha. This time I stayed, because the mini-apps and the trading/wallet experiences kept getting better. But if I’m honest, the feeling of invisibility hasn’t really changed here either. Maybe that’s just the default state of social networks: most of us are eyeballs, not voices.

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In elementary school they told me Users are Losers...

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sebastian289 pfp

Yes, and the achievements we have made so far are obvious to all.

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