largely why we shouldn't optimise for video content; we're 5 years too late

yt, tiktok, instagram know me better than my mum

the algo knows what i want to see 

there's also abundance of content there 

likely no reason why i'd ditch them and go elsewhere

what if fc mini apps became the new product hunt? 

what if fc wallet + feed becomes a trader's safe haven? 

idk i keep thinking a lot on how farcaster should uniquely 100x and spend $10mn over the next 12 months to go big or go home 

the team / founders are incredibly talented and there's opportunity cost

maybe it's a decade long slow grind to wait for a canonical event that floods new valuable users

but is hope a good strategy?

i ask this to myself very often each time i say 'i hope xyz happens'

You could say the same thing for text-based content we've been working with for the last 4.5 years.

Video content is more compelling for a lot of people.

Mini apps are great for retention, but, for the most part, don't drive top of funnel growth.

If we had deep link invites to mini apps, I think they could definitely drive TOF growth. It's technically not possible for mini apps to increase growth yet

You can’t add a flag or metadata or something to an invite that would replace text in the onboarding flow? Possible it’s too complicated to be worth it, but seems likely some kind of workaround would be possible

It doesn't pass to the app from the app store. That's why you have some apps try to immediately try to get you to paste something (which is jarring to a new user).

That makes sense. But invite codes already require being pasted so couldn’t mini app specific invite codes bring in the metadata after the farcaster app is downloaded? Could also have a drop down or search for mini apps during onboarding. I know this breaks up the flow but all these things can have defaults to prevent that.