bertwurst.eth

Farcaster

for the record:

This was a genuine question. I spent a lot of time on this app and I want it to win.

I believe that the best way to win as a social app is to become the #1 place on Earth for some type of content.

Twitter => thoughts of powerful people

Instagram => pics of cool kids

Reddit => niche conversations with nerds

And with all due respect to our app's most favorite dog, I don't think we can compete on the dog content with the rest of the Internet.

It doesn't mean that the dog, travel, or party pics shouldn't be around here. They are more than welcome as far as I'm concerned. 

But I used to have a clear content need that I satisfied with this app and now I don't know why should I even open it.

1. Bert is great.

2. In the wise words of Ronnie Coleman:

1. Yeah it's nice

2. If you set up the right ecosystem and incentives, people will post the right content. In my opinion the current structure doesn't help making Farcaster win. Or maybe it does but you have way different vision of winning than I am - happy to learn about it.

You can ofc frame my well-meaning critique as whining, but I don't think that helps to build a better product.

Maybe you made a strategic decision to ignore this user story altogether because it's too small or not profitable enough. That's fine, you're running a business, not an app to satisfy Mac Budkowski's needs.

But then, what deliberate user story are you serving now? That's not clear to me 🙁

As 

1) Farcaster built a great crypto experience via in-app wallet + mini-apps. 

I think it's way better than vanilla crypto UX and chapeau bas for that.

2) Twitter is betting even more on 'get viral or die' feed strategy, so it's way harder to break through for most accounts, even those with decent following.

This means that there are people who would like to chat about crypto but can't do it on Twitter. These people might be pretty open to using crypto via Farcaster as they're already crypto-pilled.

3) I think purposely tweaking algo to give more prominence to high-quality crypto related posts would help onboard more people of these people.

Ofc I haven't seen your algo and the devil lies in the details. There are probably 100 ways to do it badly and only a few to do it well. But it is possible (picrel)

PS: As I responded to deodad

PS2: sorry for typos, i'm omw to a weekend trip.

this is ofc a very general idea. happy to elaborate and discuss next week

As 

1) Farcaster built a great crypto experience via in-app wallet + mini-apps. 

I think it's way better than vanilla crypto UX and chapeau bas for that.

2) Twitter is betting even more on 'get viral or die' feed strategy, so it's way harder to break through for most accounts, even those with decent following.

This means that there are people who would like to chat about crypto but can't do it on Twitter. These people might be pretty open to using crypto via Farcaster as they're already crypto-pilled.

3) I think purposely tweaking algo to give more prominence to high-quality crypto related posts would help onboard more people of these people.

Ofc I haven't seen your algo and the devil lies in the details. There are probably 100 ways to do it badly and only a few to do it well. But it is possible (picrel)

PS: As I responded to deodad
https://farcaster.xyz/macbudkowski/0xa7c03cbf

> If you set up the right ecosystem and incentives, people will post the right content

Get concrete -- what does this look like to you?