@rish

want to address a few things > Neynar's goal is to push Neynar products no, that doesn't help anything. We want Farcaster to do well else Neynar dies as a company anyway. > why did you add the neynar button to casts? It was meant to act the same as what Grok button does on Twitter. Users didn't use it so we removed it. That's how experiments work. If we just wanted to push Neynar products, we would have left it there. In hindsight, we shouldn't have added it but again, that's how experiments work. You learn from them. > The Apps page points to Studio We built a bunch of new stuff into the Apps page from scratch. We started with discovery and showed an initial prototype here to get early feedback: https://farcaster.xyz/rish/0xc00a9fa4. Based on that we built a Discovery page that we are iterating on. Also an experiment and might remove if it doesn't work as expected. Post discovery, we launched a creation experience, spoke to that here: https://farcaster.xyz/rish/0x5ce76a75. All consumer social apps bundle creation and discovery > Well, you're profiting from the Studio No we are actually losing money on every prompt and app made through the Studio. It's cheaper to _not_ add the Studio than add it. Vibe coding apps don't make money today. The goal here is to see what helps the next stage of the network. A tiny fraction of Studio users are paid users, it has a generous free tier and daily credit drops. Most users use it for free. If it doesn't work, we will try something else. > You are just extracting Extracting what? In what definition of extraction does one only lose millions of dollars over the course of a year trying to improve an app and a network? > DAUs are falling We know DAUs are falling, that's why we are running experiments. DAUs falling are a mix of people leaving, bear market (Farcaster has seen this during every bear market) and Base removing Farcaster. The proportion of low scoring users dropping is way higher than high scoring, same for proportion of Base signers vs not. We can either be doomers looking at the graph and point fingers or choose to do something about it > You tweeted about the Studio from the Farcaster account Farcaster has tweeted about most projects from that account. We want mini app developers to have an easier time, that's all. Again, most users use it for free and we only lose money on it. The goal was / is to increase good experiences built on Farcaster and give people an easier way to build them. > I don't believe any of this, you are an evil company okay

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