Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
Why ship Farcaster Pro with just a badge? Why not wait until the other benefits are ready? 1. Itโs optional. If you think thatโs 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 โthis thing is different and worth delayingโ you degrade your one true advantage as a startup: speed. It compounds. And then a few years later when it ultimately doesnโt 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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Patrick | Megapot
@pl
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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@emperor49
Agree with this. If it's just a "10k nft collection", farmers will mint it out so fast that real users won't be able to get any.
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