@eriks

things i’d like to try on farcaster and some thoughts on each prompt/embed a personal app prompt a social feed prompt a social app personal app - i’ve built a few of these w claude code and have found them useful. i’m now iterating. the one i use the most is a “flow os” app where i am able to journal and save my memory and convos w AI on all the things i do daily, the AI stores the memory both at the individual item level (such as meditation, or spanish practice, or newsletters) and the overall level that includes all journal entries from every item historically. similar to a highly personalized habits/to-do list, with built in features and curation. the next step i think about for personal apps is how to make them available in the places i spend the most time such as fc, and then a way to “share” them, whether that be ppl being able to easily copy my morning routine or research or art creation as a template and make it their own via new prompts, or even get a view into my own flow os and i can get a view into others for the parts they choose to make public. i think of this as a “shared curation” place, where instead of just following someone’s thoughts on a social feed, u can follow the other parts of their notes/documenting that they make public too. some parts obv they’ll choose to keep private. prompt a social feed - i feel it is a matter of time until most social networks allow this in some form, such as what we see recently at a basic level from X allowing ppl to filter by topics on their for you feed. but this would take it a step further, allowing me to prompt/edit curated feeds, and have them be private or public, this again is somewhat “curation for myself and/or as a service”, and there could be an economic model behind this where the ppl writing the feed prompts charge a micro fee for access to the feed. i’d absolutely use this to create unique fc feeds that tailor to my interests. prompt a social app - for the last one to be accessible to everyone we need free access to a shared social graph and it’s data, i feel fc is the best place for this, but rn does it cost a lot to run a client? i’m not super familiar w the costs. the goal would be anyone can spin up a social app, either embedded in fc as a mini app, all good if neynar continues to charge some for that distribution if it’s in the main client, but preferably also being able to do this by prompting a standalone client, where the person creating the client can access fc data for free and then pays minimal for the other services that make running the client possible. i’m not experienced at all w the dev side and the costs associated for access, so mainly looking to learn more here and understand if prompting a fc client is possible today at a negligible cost. i’d like to launch a curated photography/art focused one personally i do believe fc has a chance to be a leader here as the lowest cost way to prompt a social network app, knowing that there is a shared social graph, however again i’m not sure on how viable that is currently based on the costs associated - for example, the photography/art client i’d like to prompt i’d prefer to not be a “business that scales” and instead look more like a public good and place for a niche/small community of artists/photographers/collectors to hang out, sure i’d try to create small rev streams or get grants to hopefully pay for the small service costs, but the intent wouldn’t be to create an amazing business, the intent would be to give photographers/artists more self-sovereignty and a place focused on their art both for viewing and onchain + irl distribution if they wanted, however someone else prompted a fc client or app maybe does want to build more of a biz and that’s fine too, i think we see a future where ppl have more social avenues to monetize curation that are open to everyone and don’t break ppl’s bank to launch them anyway, just some thoughts and it sounds like fc is leaning in across a lot of these areas, i can see it creating a lot of magic like we’ve seen on fc in the past, but i can’t help thinking about the barriers to entry for anyone wanting to build/create any of the above both technical and the costs associated, seems we’re getting closer but not quite there yet along a similar line of thought, i believe we see a boom in apps that function more like public goods and are committed to the individuals using them - giving more freedom to the individual user versus always trying to monetize the user in the most efficient way possible. these will need to come w creative incentives to “upkeep” them, many of these won’t have a focus on scaling to a billion users, or even a million users

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