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Dan Romero@dwr.eth
1/13/2024

gm AMA — Farcaster, Warpcast, tech, etc.

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theclash@theclash
1/13/2024

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

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1/13/2024

What something you did learn/realize recently that surprised you for not learning/realizing earlier?

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David Furlong@df
1/13/2024

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?

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Matthew Barton@mbar
1/13/2024

How much iPad / internet time for the kids?

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Syed Shah🏴‍☠️🌊@syed
1/13/2024

Gpt5 drops in 1 months time. What is 1 first order effect, 1 second order effect and 1 effect beyond?

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1/13/2024

How long do you think before gif capabilities are implemented here? And video?

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1/13/2024

When video?

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1/13/2024

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?

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1/13/2024

From which countries does the most traffic come to Warpcast?

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Christopher Wallace@christopher
1/13/2024

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.

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rish@rish
1/13/2024

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?)

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Jorge Pablo Franetovic ( jp )@jpfraneto
1/13/2024

if you died tomorrow, what (music) album would you take to the otherside?

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​woj — q/dau@woj.eth
1/13/2024

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

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Tiggy@willy
1/13/2024

What is your favourite meal to cook for friends?

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Erik@eriks
1/13/2024

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.

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YB@yb
1/13/2024

How did you meet Julia?

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six — q/dau@six
1/13/2024

What’s one thing Warpcast/Farcaster related that you disagree with Varun on?

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Tayyab - d/acc@tayyab
1/13/2024

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?

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Joethebeast.eth@joethebeast1221
1/13/2024

Is there anyway to batch follow the folks in a specifc group chat or channel for now?

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1/13/2024

Imagine you're born in the 18th century, what career path would you likely take? Don't worry about geographic location.

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Nick Morgan@nickmorgan
1/13/2024

Are there any plans for interoperability for farcaster on non-EVM chains?

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Ox Bid@oxb
1/13/2024

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🙏

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Adam Miller@thethriller
1/13/2024

Wen token?

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grin@grin
1/13/2024

What’s the biggest disagreement you and varun have had re: FC?

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1/13/2024

what’s your favorite podcast covering all things warpcast/farcaster?

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Ox Bid@oxb
1/13/2024

How do you choose people for your team? Are there any specific criteria?

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accountless.eth@accountless.eth
1/13/2024

if you were a cartoon character from your childhood who would it be

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Christian@evaluate
1/13/2024

How do you imagine farcaster clients built for VisionOS being different than clients on iOS (if at all)?

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1/13/2024

what’s the tech/infra you guys used to build WARP points system?

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1/13/2024

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.

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1/13/2024

how would your political views change without coinbase, if at all?

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William@wwill
1/13/2024

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?

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Adam Miller@thethriller
1/13/2024

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.

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1/13/2024

What's your biggest learning about Farcaster/Warpcast from the last year?"

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billzh - l/dau@billzh
1/13/2024

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?

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Anky@anky
1/13/2024

what would you answer to this today? (context: this was on Kernel's block 8 introduction slack, where I invited people to join /kernel)

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Oppenheimer 🥷@oppenheimer
1/13/2024

Gm Boss!

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1/13/2024

What would you do as benevolent dictator of @purple? Aka how can Purple be effective / complementary to Merkle?

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1/13/2024

What kind of apps could leverage Farecaster's social graph? (not content, just graph)

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Salvino Armati@salvino
1/13/2024

what’s your best guess for what drives the next crypto cycle? e.g. ICOs in 2017, NFTs in 2021 ..

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1/13/2024

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

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Darryl Yeo 🛠️@darrylyeo
1/13/2024

Biggest pivots or course corrections you’ve implemented so far while building Farcaster / Warpcast and running experiments?

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Peter Makhnatch (yes/yes)@pmakhnatch.eth
1/13/2024

what do you want to see built in the ecosystem?

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Eddie Wharton@eddie
1/13/2024

what are your leading hypotheses for possible new social primitives that could 10-100x qDAUs

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​woj — q/dau@woj.eth
1/13/2024

are you tracking k factor for warpcast? if yes, is it improving recently? if no, why?

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Juicebox@juicebox
1/13/2024

In your opinion, what are the most common mistakes made by crypto native orgs when building products?

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jamesyoung.eth@jamesyoung
1/13/2024

what are your thoughts on bots to extend Warpcast functionality vs “programmatic users”

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max⚡️@maxp.eth
1/13/2024

why does the Warpcast team like shipping new features on fridays?

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Camille Roux@camilleroux
1/13/2024

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.

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Jacob@jrf
1/13/2024

Why did you remove pinned channels? Thx : )

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Minh Quang BP@7979
1/14/2024

GM

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petar.xyz@petar
1/14/2024

Are you the inventor of Farcaster?

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Jason Chaskin@chaskin.eth
1/14/2024

What's a historical event that you feel is not talked about enough?

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ladidai@ladidaix
1/14/2024

Are Farcaster posts viewable on ActivityPub?

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Fikri@kiy
1/14/2024

leggooooo

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Amir Bandeali@amir
1/14/2024

What do you think is the best crypto social product not built on Farcaster?

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1/14/2024

Why did you choose to centralize warps vs. on chain?

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Grey Seymour@greyseymour
1/14/2024

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.

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kenny 🎩@kenny
1/14/2024

% chance that crypto completely kills fiat within the next 30 years?

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1/14/2024

Could you check my account and kindly let me know that what is wrong with my activity that not eligible for warps yet?

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Kosi Nkwuka@bash2424
1/14/2024

Gm KING

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An Nguyen@annguyenr
1/14/2024

Gm king

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Duc Lam@bene
1/14/2024

When video Sir?

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rohekbenitez.eth@rohekbenitez
1/14/2024

Is there a possibility that internal message sending fails? Or that I try to follow someone and they don't let me?

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priandhi@linea
1/14/2024

GM Sir

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Snehasish Dan@snehuexist
1/14/2024

Thank u sir

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Antoine@antoinedc
1/14/2024

Are stories on the roadmap? (Looks like every social network gave it a try at some point)

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Matei@no
1/14/2024

How do you support up and coming founders?

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Lucifer@797
1/14/2024

GN SIR 💗

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🌹 Zach Harris 🥀@zachharris
1/14/2024

Have you always been a king among men?

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