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.

Both are fair points

My only challenge has been driving engagement with my casts in the past 3 weeks. Charging early slows growth. Why not make sign-up free and focus on growing the user base? Going Pro later, makes total sense in imho.

That’s every success social network playbook. My 2 cents