gm Dan. Any advice for growing a small, new channel - somewhat aimed at a large, very active community outside of FC? /saga https://warpcast.com/theclash/0x3ed753a5
What something you did learn/realize recently that surprised you for not learning/realizing earlier?
Provided they're a success, what kind of timeline do you think is likely for Warpcast group chats being interoperable with other Farcaster apps as part of the Farcaster protocol?
Gpt5 drops in 1 months time. What is 1 first order effect, 1 second order effect and 1 effect beyond?
How long do you think before gif capabilities are implemented here? And video?
Gm! Thanks for doing this. What’s your take on on-chain lending protocols as a source for “real” yield? Are there DeFi use cases that excite you at all?
any thoughts on Threads product laddering off of Instagram’s social graph to drive ActivityPub instead of embedding into Instagram itself? seems like a political fumble.
when you talk about growing DAUs -- are they protocol level DAUs (i.e. writing to the protocol) or Warpcast level DAUs (could include users who are lurkers but don't write to the protocol)? (I imagine the former?)
if you died tomorrow, what (music) album would you take to the otherside?
did you have a special kobe bryant style motivational speech for the warpcast team for 2024? "this year is ours, its now or never, no weekends in 2024" type of thing
Will Warpcast add payments in the future? I’d love to easily top up USDC or ETH on Base and send it on here for free/pennies.
What’s one thing Warpcast/Farcaster related that you disagree with Varun on?
What is a part of your health that you have improved over the past year? What is something you’d like to improve this year?
Is there anyway to batch follow the folks in a specifc group chat or channel for now?
Imagine you're born in the 18th century, what career path would you likely take? Don't worry about geographic location.
Are there any plans for interoperability for farcaster on non-EVM chains?
If it's not in the US, where would you live now? The new update with private chats is cool. Based on personal experience managing communities through Telegram, it's very useful to add people tags in the chat and also pass/ share the admin function🙏
what’s your favorite podcast covering all things warpcast/farcaster?
How do you choose people for your team? Are there any specific criteria?
How do you imagine farcaster clients built for VisionOS being different than clients on iOS (if at all)?
What do you think will drive DAU growth? Also, what do you think about linear growth before hockey stick growth? I find that it just takes a lot to maintain the party at first but at X# of users it becomes exponential.
Gm! I am trying to create a group chat, but when I try to create it, the page just loads forever. Do you have any idea as to what is going on?
More serious… how many people are on the team, and how many are engineers? And give the opportunity to raise money and hire more, would you? Or you feel the team is big enough? Seems to me you ship a lot of great stuff so seems big. Beeper annoyed me by saying they have enough people, but IMO they dont ship much.
What's your biggest learning about Farcaster/Warpcast from the last year?"
Seems like now there's 115 ETH (and growing) sitting at the FC storage contract https://www.onceupon.gg/0x00000000fcce7f938e7ae6d3c335bd6a1a7c593d Any plan to put the funds into use?
what would you answer to this today? (context: this was on Kernel's block 8 introduction slack, where I invited people to join /kernel)
What would you do as benevolent dictator of @purple? Aka how can Purple be effective / complementary to Merkle?
What kind of apps could leverage Farecaster's social graph? (not content, just graph)
what’s your best guess for what drives the next crypto cycle? e.g. ICOs in 2017, NFTs in 2021 ..
Just curious How big is your team? And how you define the PMF for farcaster&warpcast as a founder? What would make you think that the product found the PMF
Biggest pivots or course corrections you’ve implemented so far while building Farcaster / Warpcast and running experiments?
what are your leading hypotheses for possible new social primitives that could 10-100x qDAUs
are you tracking k factor for warpcast? if yes, is it improving recently? if no, why?
In your opinion, what are the most common mistakes made by crypto native orgs when building products?
what are your thoughts on bots to extend Warpcast functionality vs “programmatic users”
Could you improve the image upload? When I upload a too big image, there is an error in console but I see the loader indefinitely. It's great if the UI can be more explicit about the error, or better, compress the image. Moreover, quote of a post with image doesn't show the image.
What do you think is the best crypto social product not built on Farcaster?
a little late here but - I’ve seen an uptick of Farcaster-friendly automation stuff - onchain-action-posting bots, mostly. What’s the FC policy on this sort of stuff? I think it’s awesome if contained but worry about an influx of such bots negatively affecting the signal:noise ratio that I love about FC.
% chance that crypto completely kills fiat within the next 30 years?
Could you check my account and kindly let me know that what is wrong with my activity that not eligible for warps yet?
Is there a possibility that internal message sending fails? Or that I try to follow someone and they don't let me?
Are stories on the roadmap? (Looks like every social network gave it a try at some point)