It’s 10x easier (still hard) to build a Warpcast level FC client than it was 4 years ago

- Farcaster exists
- Hubs exists
- SIWF exists
- Neynar exists
- 10s of thousands of potential daily users exist plus more people onboarding all the time

schlep problem and skill issue (@woj.eth excluded)

@farcaster dev / dad / books, cooks, ski, code ~ there are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant

I still find it hard to understand the incentive in building my own client besides: selling ads, selling subs, to cover cost or accumulating high tech to sell later (massive commitment) - ai spam filter, good algo, some innovation etc.

I don’t have a century to build a client.

Dad, geek, conversation liquidity provider. vrypan.net (home), @l--o--l (fun). devcoin:$lemon3

I totally agree, I need at least four good reasons to start anything, too. 🤣

Agreed. It’s nice people are contributing. 

For those that want to start a project there are plenty other concepts (on top of or outside of fc) to pursue that yields better satisfaction long term.

It’s cute people have a side project building a client but it very may well fail at competing against Warpcast - do it for curiosity or portfolio, that’s fine, that’s great, three cheers. 

Building a client as a side project is certainly not a crusade worth staying up 5am for, it’s a tragic aim to treat it as such. Nobody’s stopping anyone though. 

All in all - either you’re in the arena to compete or fade in time.

reasonable

either you are passionate and want to hack around for the fun of it in which case contributing to an open source project is likely more fun than starting from scratch

or there’s a profit motive and you’re willing to take a risk on building in a winner take all space on a dark horse technology