Here is a walk-through of WDIM.

Keep in mind: WDIM is focused on what your follows share and cast. If you follow 10 accounts, you will probably see nothing. If you follow accounts that cast things you are not interested in, they may be part of what WDIM shows you (though, it does take into account if you interact with a user's casts often).

It has become my favorite way of keeping up with Farcaster.

Dad, geek, conversation liquidity provider. vrypan.net | @l--o--l | $lemon3 | @wdimapp

Building a little space at /thenextwave and watching everything on /videolab.

Makes sense. I’m sold and happy to pay $3 for all the reasons you described. :)

I was asking mainly out of curiosity since I haven’t encountered many other pay-up-front mini apps yet. I both understand and appreciate your answer about why “freemium” is not ideal here.

I don't want to get flooded by users who don't intend to use it, and just click away, because why not. The actual cost for this on-time test would  actually be close to $0.1 for me (cost of CPU, OpenAI API, etc), not counting the overhead of managing the extra users.

I understand your hesitation, but I think $3 is practically zero, for anyone here who wants to test and may actually become a long-term subscriber. That's less than what many of us spend minting NFTs we'll never go back to again or buying a memcoin that will go to zero in a few hours.

Gating the service has worked quite well so far:
- the number of users grows slowly at a steady rate
- I get high-quality feedback from users that actually paid.

This is a really cool idea. Have you considered granting something like one free use before prompting subscription? I'd love to be able to see it once with my own following before subscribing.