Jason Goldberg
@betashop.eth
If I was running Warpcast, I'd be laser focused on Search & Expertise type features
Warpcast as a social network is ok
Warpcast as a way to find and connect with people with specific expertise in web3 is unparalleled
Rika
@rika628
@saymore
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Kazi ⚔️
@kazi
Sound strategy and what would be the growth plan?
David Moon
@davidmoon
So you want a reddit/ stack overflow
Manuel
@manuelmaccou.eth
I would love to play a role in this with endorsements by @mosaicnetwork. Your point was one of the goals I explained in the launch video. Farcaster, not just Warpcast. I’m just having a hard time finding the time to do this the right way. If you’re open to teaming up, I’m down to explore it.
KMac
@kmacb.eth
Interesting. I went to LinkedIn as first thought. Is SO still relevant with AI? Used it once since December.
David Moon
@davidmoon
I think for most cases, a lot of devs still go to SO for debugging. Not sure for implementation as much these days.
tldr (tim reilly)
@tldr
This feature would be so valuable here!
KMac
@kmacb.eth
Gonna be super interesting to see how SO implements AI. The community aspects never sucked me. ✌️
caz.eth
@caz.eth
Don’t you think this would limit the user base to only web3 folks?
Jason Goldberg
@betashop.eth
in case you were wondering:
LinkedIn = $10B revenue
Twitter = $3B revenue
Jason Goldberg
@betashop.eth
Solve a local painpoint and then expand out from there
Kevin
@kevinoconnell
SO’s community is so bad lmao
Jacob
@jrf
"Warpcast as a way to find and connect with people with specific expertise in Web3"
I feel like it already is that, no?
Jason Goldberg
@betashop.eth
it's the part of WC that is most valuable (painkillers vs. vitamins) imo, so lean into it hard
- there's no way to search for people in Warpcast based on their bios or expertise, or events or groups
- there's no way to search for people based on their casts
- there's no way to search for casts
- follow topics
Sam
@samantha
@matallo.eth remember i was talking to u ab this w pincaster
MOLO
@molo
endorsements is a terrible feature and nobody should build it
Jacob
@jrf
I agree with that 👆 💯
I'm thinking you can search by keywords on 3rd party web apps but would be great to have these as native functionalities
Jason Goldberg
@betashop.eth
I've given up on championing 3rd party FC apps until permissionless signups and apps can control their own destiny
but i'm super passionate about farcaster taking off as a protocol and network
so i think Warpcast should do this as it solves a real painpoint and I think it will ↗️ activation & ↘️ churn
Jacob
@jrf
It could be a ⚡️ feature
Would need to think of ways to minimize spam messaging beyond mutual opt-in DCs (which are already a bit spotty)
Gregor
@gregor
Link to POAPs in bio? 🤷♂️
Jason Goldberg
@betashop.eth
Great idea!
pjs
@pjs
Desperately want search. I encounter friction around this multiple times a day.
Jason Goldberg
@betashop.eth
as someone who built a search outside of warpcast...
warpcast needs to build search asap
Carlos Matallín
@matallo.eth
I know it’s not in Warpcast, but how would you improve search in Pincaster? Make sure to visit explore too
dylan
@dylsteck.eth
I’ve been wanting keyword search since Day 1!! 🙌 🙌
Daniel Lombraña
@teleyinex.eth
Is anyone using that when hiring?
Daniel Lombraña
@teleyinex.eth
This would be awesome. Probably it would be best to integrate attestations.sh so people can attest what others have done and use it to build your portfolio.
MOLO
@molo
idk but i’d guess no and it wouldn’t be used for more social purposes either
Daniel Lombraña
@teleyinex.eth
For me is just bragging.
Aghahowa Daniel
@userman
I think I’ll do a mini project on this. Thanks for the idea👉👈
Peter Ferguson
@peterferguson.eth
Interested in your problems you have had with DCs… just spam type messages or?
Jacob
@jrf
My issue with DCs on Farcaster isn't spam, it's that they sometimes disappear
But it'd be great to have group chat DCs, and to have more in-chat features like sharing images
🌹 Zach Harris 🥀
@zachharris
Wait, confused… weren’t you trying to offload Jam last week? Does that mean you were laser focused on search and expertise type features?
Jason Goldberg
@betashop.eth
“If I was running Warpcast” as the base / default app for Farcaster is very different from running an alt app
🌹 Zach Harris 🥀
@zachharris
That’s true.
Perhaps certain feature level requests on client side have been deprioritized due to the trade-off of them not existing on protocol level?
Ex. If Rome was building the baths while they were also building the aqueducts. Might be a slippery situation…
@v & @dwr.eth do you have public product roadmaps?
Lior
@lior
True, though there is a niche full of players focusing on the talent protocol aspect.
Eventually there is a good chance all of these networks will integrate over to a single social graph, but until then we're gonna see a lot of fragmentation imo
Sheldon Trotman
@sheldon
I see Warpcast as a showroom of the features of the Farcaster protocol which is more about the social network aspects.
That means that another product could pop up (@jam 👀) specialized for that particular vertical.
Ignas Peciura
@ipeciura
Never. And I've hired a lot of people.
Jayme Hoffman
@jayme
The beauty of farcaster is that you can run this ;)
Jason Goldberg
@betashop.eth
cannot realistically until permissionless signups
Jayme Hoffman
@jayme
We solved this via:
1. Email me for invite
2. I invite if quality user
Duffy
@duffy
The beauty of FC is that the community can build products like this on top of the protocol. The FC team will be focused on core protocol features and will leave client ideas like this to the community
Jason Goldberg
@betashop.eth
in theory yes, in the future
but not rn when all FC signups must be done in Warpcast
i believe Warpcast should make this the focus rn because WC = FC for the most part for the remainder of 2023 and this is the core value that users will stick around for (my hypothesis/conviction only)
Duffy
@duffy
I hear you, but @dwr.eth and @v have clearly laid out the vision and this is not it
drew fagin 🌊
@drews.eth
agreed. i use all the time
Jason Goldberg
@betashop.eth
Exactly and that’s why the cast starts with “if I was running…”
I’m not telling them what they should do, they have their plan
I’m just offering an alternative reality for everyone to consider
Jason Goldberg
@betashop.eth
Me too!
Jason Goldberg
@betashop.eth
step 1: focus on increasing weekly activation and cohort retention
get that right, and you can grow
T. Dylan Daniel | PageDAO
@epicdylan
That’s a great point!
I’m thinking the strength of the Farcaster protocol is that it can do the jobs of all the existing social media networks.
Twitter = Warpcast
Medium = @paragraph
LinkedIn = maybe also Warpcast?
Goodreads = @matallo.eth ‘s Pincaster
T. Dylan Daniel | PageDAO
@epicdylan
Imagine the sharing possibilities… 🤤
Manuel
@manuelmaccou.eth
What is attestations.sh? It’s not loading for me
CryptoChem
@cryptochem
Couldn’t agree more on this. Warpcast needs something unique that gives value to users that Twitter doesn’t offer.
Right now Warpcast gives better access to important thought leaders but the engagement is quite limited and engaging content is hard to find.
Daniel Lombraña
@teleyinex.eth
My bad, it is
Manuel
@manuelmaccou.eth
1/2 This looks really interesting. I see a few of these companies pop up. Another just closed a $4M seed round. But one thing I still don’t get is these standards only mean something if everyone uses it. Just the fact that this new standard exists is moving the industry further from the solution of a single standard.
Manuel
@manuelmaccou.eth
2/2 How have these standards been successfully created in the past? It’s a strange paradox
Daniel Lombraña
@teleyinex.eth
Yep. There's this joke that if nowadays we would try to have a standard for batteries (AA AAA) it would be impossible
Hanh
@itshanh
have you come across backdrop.so? Part of current value prop is ability to search for expertise and flag availability for opportunities