Posting on Farcaster has earned me thousands of dollars in memecoins, which were airdropped algorithmically to me based on engagement to my casts.
Wild.
Announcing... Open Frames
Open Frames is a draft specification for Frames that work anywhere.
If you're interested in bringing Frames to your ecosystem or app, DM us, we'd love to chat.
XMTP is launching Frames support using Open Frames today.
Check replies for link
I just crossed 10K followers on the next big social network.
Last year I was on twitter with 700 followers with no way to get feedback on what I was creating. Now I can get feedback from hundreds.
If you're building in crypto and you don't have a big audience on X, join me on
New
@farcaster_xyz
protocol version just dropped.
It's kinda cool.
Previously you could only reply to content in the network.
Now you can reply directly to: transactions on blockchains, NFTs or even locations.
This unlocks some interesting new use cases and interactions
“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”
Farcaster has had a week where a decade has happened. rapid user growth. permissionless channels. $points. network feels different, like a main street that just got busier with a flurry of new
Curious what's next for Farcaster Frames?
What's possible?
🔮 Here's a 4 min video shared a couple weeks ago w Farcaster to propose extending Casts with Open Graph metadata to enable polls & richer embeds
A thread
A year ago: ~15 people worldwide building on
@farcaster_xyz
Today: Met two other people just in my coworking space independently building on Farcaster 📈
I have 5 Farcaster invites to give away - reply with what you want to build to get an invite
IRL meetups have been particularly valuable for cohesion and building new relationships in digital communities
Insightful Q&A with
@kevinrose
and
@cdixon
at
@a16zcrypto
CSS.
Great talk by
@blauyourmind
at
@a16zcrypto
CSS.
It was eye opening how NFT royalties currently work (they depends on the marketplace respecting them), and how the standards around NFTs and royalties are developing to make sure they are consistently applied.
It’s been a wild 3 months, culminating with demo day today!
Deeply grateful to all the incredible people part of my cohort and the mentors for this unforgettable experience 💜
Crypto Startup School (CSS23) Spotlight 🔦
Team:
@discovexyz
Founder:
@davidvfurlong
Where is the team from?
Berlin, Germany
What are you building?
Discove is building a Protocol for Social Mini-apps
What’s a milestone or update from the project that you’d like to share?
Excited to host a
@farcaster_xyz
meetup in Venice Beach next week with
@philmohun
in the
@brtmoments
space.
Thursday, March 30th 6-9p.
Open to all Farcaster community members. +1s welcome.
There'll be food, drinks & maybe a surprise
👇Register
Great talk by
@dwr
on his learnings while growing the
@farcaster_xyz
protocol, including some original names and iterations on the protocol that I hadn't previously heard of.
at
@a16zcrypto
CSS
Great talk by
@benscharfstein
on UX.
Here's my favourite slide from it - love the disambiguation between complex and powerful. From
@a16zcrypto
crypto startup school
👇
A list of open challenges limiting the UX of apps built on protocols like Farcaster that I’d like builders in the ecosystem to tackle to push the space forward
Big news for
@farcaster_xyz
!
Hubs are now permissionless
Anyone can now can spin up a hub, connect to Mainnet, get an entire copy of the data, and publish messages to the network.
Set up your own hub
@tommycollison
Between career fit, culture fit, behavioural fit within team, technical/hard skill fit and logistical fit (remote/salary/location/hours) its a miracle we are able to make great hires at all. Its a multivariate optimization problem with asymmetric info
Introducing Frameworks ✨
The largest
@farcaster
Frames hackathon.
We're excited to see:
- 1000+ devs around the world building Frames
- Experiments with new Frame types + txs
- Improvements to Frame devex and tooling
- Mainstream-ready use cases!
We just wrapped up the Spring 23 cohort of Crypto Startup School, and we couldn’t be more excited about the future. It’s been a privilege supporting this group as they build and push our industry forward.
As we look ahead, we wanted to highlight the 26 amazing teams who joined
Introducing Farcaster channels
- Channels are feeds of casts organized around a topic
- Anyone can cast and read casts in channels
- When you cast in a channel, it won't appear in the main feed
Less than a week since launch, we're seeing a Cambrian Explosion in open source Farcaster Frames & Frames tooling.
@base
is leading the way with their onchainkit.
Applications for Crypto Startup School will be closing in 11 days.
Here are 3 common questions we've been recieving from applicants:
1) If I haven’t finished building my product or am still thinking about what to build, should I still apply?
Yes! We are seeking founders with
Interesting talk by
@aeyakovenko
. I particularly liked his explanation on why
@solana
is making a phone and crypto native app store - could unlock some great mobile first experiences that are currently limited by apple policies
Crypto Startup School (CSS23) Spotlight 🔦
Team:
@frenslol
Founders:
@jpren
,
@brianli101
,
@jckyeh
Where is the team from?
🇺🇸 San Francisco · 🇺🇸 Pittsburgh · 🇨🇦 Toronto
What are you building?
Frens — WeChat for web3. Message and transact with friends, protocols, and smart
@camiinthisthang
don’t have much experience with lens, but here’s what Farcaster did well
1. focused early on quality of content, avoiding shill
2. built a world class app UX in Warpcast over years
3. Gave people a way to congregate with channels
4. Nerdsniped devs with a new way make websites
Farcaster isn't just for talking about crypto - there are already 817 channels created by users.
I made a simple tool to search and discover Farcaster channels, see replies for the url
@divine_economy
@unlonely_app
@jokerace_xyz
respect the hell outa you, but
@bountycaster
is solving the problem for Farcaster native communities better than
@jokerace_xyz
does today, because their bot actually natively integrates into the network Farcasters are already using and drives distribution.
You say you love
Every cool product: Here's your Wrapped 2022
Twitter: No Wrapped for you 😢
Decentralized social: Community can create a Wrapped 2022
I made one for - Farcaster Wrapped 2022
Get ready for our AMA with David
@davidvfurlong
later on 🤗
Most would have heard of David from his involvement within the Farcaster Ecosystem, but are you aware of
@modprotocol
yet?
This is a great opportunity to learn more, so get ready with your questions! 👇🏻
Felt this strongly in my Oxford grad cohort in 2016 and glad I resisted the pull of the london consulting supergravity that seems to affect Oxford grads in particular.
Building > Talking
Met a British startup founder today who'd studied engineering at Oxford. He said the majority of his fellow students had since gone into finance or consulting. In effect there is a brain drain *within* the UK, as engineers emigrate to fields where they don't build anything.
🎧 Ep
#106
|
@davidvfurlong
(Openframes & framesjs)
Really great convo: David unpacks why they're building framesjs, talks about principled pivots, describes the importance of this current moment in decentralized social, & much more.
🚀 What are the Secrets to User-Driven Growth in web3?
You could try talking about it everywhere—on Twitter, in person, you name it. But that's slow, and people are skeptical of self-promotion.
So, how does it work? 🧵
We are very excited about the innovation in content sharing!
Hey Portals 🪟 is transforming the way we engage with content by interactive micro-apps. Leveraging
@facebook
's OpenGraph, it's not just sharing; it's an immersive experience.
Learn more on how to integrate:
Big news to share:
@a16z
is expanding to the UK 🇬🇧
We plan to open our first international office in London later this year, and will host the next Crypto Startup School there in 2024.
Why the UK? 👇
Im a big fan of
@asana
, and some attention to detail like the copy pasting multiple tasks UX is amazing! The app wide search function seems to use exact matches which is fine, but when you have diacritics (accents) it kinda falls down and doesnt match very well.
"...this one really affects the future of the internet; we need to decide, do we want an internet that's like Disneyland where something like 5 companies own it, or do we want an internet that is open and decentralized and innovative." -
@cdixon
@divine_economy
$POINTS is not a dao and there's no $POINTS treasury. 75% of remaining $POINTS were burned on
@unlonely_app
progress is happening, entirely driven by holders giving bounties: ,
Needs to be easy to use & distribute within Farcaster
@camiinthisthang
and many more details sweated that I can’t list all here.
A focus on the user experience, a very high bar for execution and a healthy decentralization pragmaticism
I made an NFT hat 🧢 to bridge digital identities and avatars to IRL events. Also the hat can play funny gifs.
You can make your own by following my build guide .
It uses a
@Raspberry_Pi
, a touch screen & is controlled by phone. vid from
@brtmoments
event
@albiverse
location tagged content on decentralized social protocols will make it much easier for anyone to create new location based/map first apps without having to bootstrap network effects themselves
Met a British startup founder today who'd studied engineering at Oxford. He said the majority of his fellow students had since gone into finance or consulting. In effect there is a brain drain *within* the UK, as engineers emigrate to fields where they don't build anything.
So many awesome SaaS tools are unfortunately priced towards
- targeting big companies
- the US market
- power users
unfortunately this makes some of the most useful tools for solving problems of growth, product, eng as a startup priced out of most non US startup’s budgets.