Farcaster

ok so now that pro is launched

time to revisit the “probably dumb but might work after you launch subscription ideas” notion doc

Biggest benefit of Pro will be the new design space for MM team

It vaguely reminds me of the old Google Fridays where every person got to invest time in working on interesting side projects that may or may not have immediate value to the product’s bottom line, but were worth exploring

Luxury features get some love

playing /bracket, assisting /bracky, talking /greatbooks

the incentives are a bit whack. unless the changes are in the protocol there is no incentive for other clients to honor the pro subscription

farcaster (the app) doesn't see any of the subscription revenue so they would just building features out of benevolence to farcaster (the protocol)

imo this can be fixed by clients earning a portion of user rewards based on where they cast from though

1) was never really a fan of this framing. it totally undermines third party efforts to grow the protocol and it's a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy because no resources are allocated to finding out how we can work together to grow it

2) it will no longer be true once the coinbase wallet integration goes live. at that point they will probably bring on a lot of new users and have to offer the pro subscription in the app to access the protocol features

Yeah I think of this very much in line with the “main app is bootstrapping the protocol” strategy

I don’t think it’s very relevant or helpful to clients, but I think we’re too small for viable clients until main app creates the big growth moments

How are you thinking clients should fit in rn?

We would probably just launch our own subscription + benefits if there wasn’t any protocol value.

Not something I wring my hands over. Play a different game, etc.

Wouldn’t engagement from any client still earn rewards? So if you create a client that booms in success and engagement - they reap from the 1.2M pool?