gm, time to let everyone know that i'm no longer working for merkle i'm still a huge fan and a believer in dan, varun, the team and the whole farcaster community, but in the end i wasn't the right fit will be taking some time to rest, learn new things and eventually start something new -- farcaster will know first
is 200 tips a lot?
new on warpcast: mini app notifications grouping and disabling new notifs still go to the top of the priority stack, but take only 1 slot per app vs taking over your whole page also if an app feels like too much for you, you can disable the notifications straight from the settings page shout out to @alvesjtiago.eth @farcasteradmin.eth @phil and other devs who pushed mini apps notifs to the limit
new on warpcast: share a cast straight to X (and other apps) not much to say here, please share your favorite posts with your friends :) links in dms, images to X and IG live on mobile and web, please tag me if you see any bugs!
farcaster is the ultimate pick chose your own journey you can: - grind for engagement - promote your business - farm airdrops or - schizopost milady memes without any engagement FOR MONTHS until someone finally discovers it
tips are live! 2 changes this week: - tips are now visible on your earnings page - select all button for chads like @jacob and a lot of small fixes that i hope you will not notice :)
new on warpcast: trending follow recommendations the notification aims to solve 2 problems: - new people should be able to build a quality audience faster - existing users should be able to jump on new metas without spending hours on the app we are very thoughful on how we send it: it only triggers once many people you follow, follow a new person in a short timespan as always, you can turn it off in the notifications and shoot me any feedback π€
tipping monday is over! we had 5292 successful tips yesterday thanks for sharing and having fun together what should we add or change for the next one?
new on warpcast: new user halo every new user who follows 5 people and verifies a phone number is getting a green halo for their first week on farcaster :) when you see a green halo try to be extra kind and welcoming β people who get replies in their first few days are the most likely to stick around gm @vanshxgoel!
stop calling it warplet wtf
what will happen with super? unfortunately, this means that we will stop the active development β my focus will remain on growing farcaster, but with warpcast i know many people rely on super in their everyday life and i will do my best to build a smooth transition so: - super stays live for at least the next 3 months - all active memberships will be refunded - after that, we'll likely open source it and pass the torch to a new maintainer more updates on this soon
announcement time: super is joining warpcast we are joining forces with @dwr.eth and @v to build farcaster into the most important social network on the planet, together farcaster has never been stronger and iβm grateful for everyone who helped us get here below is the story and what is happening next
we just cancelled all recurring billing on @super if you don't want your membership to run out (trust me, you don't) go to https://www.super.sc/settings and extend your membership ahead manually we will be sending wc dm notifications (and soon emails) 5 days and 1 day before your membership expires share with a super friend!
@eddy on friday we completed our rebrand and launched the free version of the app β can we merge this change to a16z/awesme-farcaster please? https://github.com/a16z/awesome-farcaster/pull/115
very soon we will cancel all recurring subscriptions to @super will take a short term revenue hit but i'm confident it is the right way forward why? - everyone hates getting a random recurring receipt for shit they didnt use - lost of customer support problems to solve when people accidentally subscribe too many times or they lost access to the app while paying - recurring $10/mo massively undercharges whales and is very predatory to people for who $10/mo is a lot of money ideally: - we don't charge anyone who didn't get value from the app and $10 really matters to them - we allow wealthy members to spend infinite $$$ on @super (like legend @wake who paid for 5 years of membership ahead) we have some great ideas, cancelling the recurring sub is first step to implement them
impressed by the clanker ecosystem going into the new year out of nowhere there are 4 different farcaster tokens that fund work of 4 legit devs with great track records and you can enter them at reasonable valuations ($14m to $2m) - native by @derek β new farcaster client - bankr by @deployer β ai agent for you wallet (closest comp is solana's griffain at $500m) - clankfun by @nt β a dexscreener-like terminal for trading these clankers - clankermon by @matthewfox β a mini game in a frame with pokemons and trading (matthew shipped some excellent mini apps before) be your own vc anon
echo cobie fartcoin penguins btc maxis ai16z / eliza ansems family solana vs base owen1v9 the prophet abstract / monad / bera / mega
"do something with a post" is the winner UX of farcaster both clanker and degen are more spammy than they could be, but this is how they became so viral and embedded in farcaster culture study noise
@dwr.eth was right not starting @super as a mobile app was a complete fumble you live and learn, iβm glad we are fixing our mistakes going into 2025 also a year ago i was nowhere as ambitious as i am right now
some news: supercast becomes @super supercast started as an extension of warpcast super = better, cast = farcaster client clean, utilitarian however, a year in the journey, super is much more than an extension of warpcast - supercasters and alpha leaks are some of the largest farcaster groupchats - superanon is the first an the largest anonymous account on farcaster - supercasters claimed over $1m in airdrops of moxie, degen and most recently, $ANON and $anon - friends map is the only place where you can see the farcaster location data in a map context - super artifacts are the new crypto punks ( https://zora.co/@supercast ) every day supercast becomes more independent and very soon, @super will have: - a free plan, accessible for anyone - native mobile apps on iOS and android with proper growth hacks, in 2025 we will be onboarding a similar amount of users to farcaster as warpcast does today so, makes sense to create and build our own identity γγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγ
new on supercast: friends map use supercast to find out where people you follow are based big shout out to @samuellhuber.eth who shipped this feature β welcome to the team sam :) and as always shout out to warpcast and neynar teams for shipping in protocol location data and the apis that enabled this hope you will enjoy it & we are open for further feedback! https://warpcast.com/woj.eth/0xb5e6c82d
ok supercasters it's friday 6.44 pm here in europe do we ship this today or wait till monday?
ok, so: buy $ANON to bet on the first truly decentralized anon account buy $anon to bet on the future of supercast community also at current prices i gave away $240k of $ANON WTF
there is a lot of other projects that put decentralization and open access on the first spot, but farcaster / warpcast proved to be the most useful to build on top of > Why should we users and builders trust Warpcast's continued benevolence... warpcast never did anything malicious, all the problems can be attributed to priorities β if merkle had an infinite dev hours at disposal today, i don't see a part of the roadmap that is killing supercast
new community page is live! what is supercast community: - https://supercast.xyz, a farcaster client - @superanon our shared anon account - groupchats, "supercasters", "alpha leaks" and "support" - channel /supercast (still working on the right design for this) - super artifacts, a set of zora editions every community member will be receiving during significant moments β $anon is the first super artifact - airdrops from other communities in the ecosystem go to https://supercast.xyz/community today to join the channel, groupchats or display your super artifacts
fun drama around the @superanon over the weekend here are some of my thoughts: - people posting on that account are my legends, you all run the show and make farcaster interesting - superanon is the best not because of anonimty but for the shared identity and distribution it provides - we deserve to grow it to 10m followers one day - having a pet-like mascot is the best way to achieve it - the launch of the new pfp was a mistake for now, but $ANON forced my hand to move fast, while dealing with personal life challenges and distributing the airdrop - the brand will get better over time - fuck anyone using this as an opportunity to dunk, steal the brand or pump their bags superanon is great we will win good night
h/t to warpcast team for enabling this type of community building ofc may not work for everyone, but for supercast members i can now offer: - a slow & publicly readable space (channel) - a fast & private space (warpcast chat) all integrated into simple clicks β no need for weird links that can get leaked, strict improvement over discord or telegram cc @cmlad.eth and @gabrielayuso.eth since i think you guys built the apis iβm using (through @neynar, of course)
supercast ai pets 1. login to supercast 2. create a pet 3. the pet is an ai agent trained on your personality 4. your pet has its own farcaster account 5. it posts every day, like your favorite pet would 6. it replies and reacts to your posts 7. if we do a good enough job, it becomes a personality on it's own and builds its own audience coming live for every supercast user on monday
extremely proud to launch this a month ago i tried to answer a question: if farcaster is a network state, how do we measure its gdp? ... and the chad @luc actually started working on putting the data together read his thread, join /farconomy and visit https://farconomy.com/ to learn more about farcaster economy and its opportunities
new on supercast: onchain payments starting today you can onboard by paying the subscription cost in any token on base or with degen on degen chain you can also easily switch to an onchain payment in settings! iβm proud to finally launch it, please let me know your thoughts!
i received 2000 EIGEN tokens for my posts about /eigenlayer on farcaster ( https://warpcast.com/~/search/top?q=from%3Awoj.eth+eigenlayer ) $EIGEN just started trading these tokens are now worth ~$7.5k posting chronically on farcaster continues to be the most profitable crypto play one can do https://www.supercast.xyz/c/0x90102adaddd313d9165a1f819eb095c503394a82
the demos from the dev day were incredible farcaster developer legos are working, all done in past few months i was never more convinced that we are going to have 100s of millions of people on here one day
new supercast release is live no new features, just ux improvements as supercast wallet is coming closer, i want to focus more on mobile ux so for this release i made sure you can properly navigate the feed, properly display the embed, properly interact with frames etc not a huge release but very satisfying since losing position in feed was #1 bug report since the beginning of supercast now i will be able to go through all the notifications and reply on supercast mobile as well more improvements and features coming next week, and the degen airdrop is coming tomorrow!
resolved now! all systems operational, long live supercast signups and multiaccounting are live since today supercast will remember all your accounts when you change devices every subscriber can create new accounts for free in the app (limited at 1/month) explainer video soon!
i'm hiring a full time developer for supercast the job is challenging but straightforward β help me ship a huge backlog of features that current supercast users want must be based in warsaw details: https://wjtk.notion.site/Full-Stack-Developer-at-supercast-34fbd7fe0d9b412ab3d42b4df8629450?pvs=25
farcaster is a great new reshuffling for any aspiring entrepreneur you can literally build any business that worked on twitter / web2 social, improve it, and find your early distribution among people on farcaster hootsuite -> @super substack -> @paragraph patreon -> @hypersub many more to come
higher is about celebrating great people and great ideas i was extremely impressed by people who got higher tattoos during farcon i suggest that higher community crowdfunds an airdrop for the 7 people who were bold and cool enough to do it i created a multisig and seeded it with 200k of my own HIGHER details below
fwiw: supercast did not receive a degen grant and is not asking for any this is a pure, permissionles, unincentivized integration degen community is awesome and, in my opinion, grew farcaster more than anything else i'm excited for the ride together and waiting for feedback on how supercast can support degen more
degen tipping button is live on @super π€ simply start replying to someone and decide what portion of your daily allowance you want to tip extremely useful if you want to remember to donate 100% of your allowance to an important cause (cc @ted) thanks @jacek for creating a wonderful community!
scheduled like 40 casts for now β ball is in @v's court
i will be casting a lot today for the @perl competition with @v i want to win but i don't want to be too spammy so will start by saying something nice about people i follow on here @df has the best feature ideas on this app
to all people playing the perl round tomorrow i will win, because @super, the farcaster client i'm building, supports cast scheduling so i will just schedule 200 casts for tomorrow already scheduled the first one picking me is a free win
this is audacious to say after just 2 months of work, but i'm building supercast to last forever will be fun
ok it's real this channel is officially called /football in @super enjoy
After: - Getting to 13 paying customers - 100 beta users - 149 mentions on farcaster - 6 weeks of grinding I'm excited to announce that @super is live and open for everybody!
pre-launching supercast with a page for feature requests good chance that things from here will get implemented over next weeks @bountybot 3x10 usdc for 3 authors whose features will make it to supercast first after the release :) https://warpcast.com/supercast/0x64f519eb
absolutely cooked google search history this week, thanks americans
