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And there it is: he thinks we stole frames from him. Prior art aside (May 2024 mint button on FC, Facebook app era), a couple of a good lessons for founders here: 1. Ideas are only useful if you can execute on them. 2. Don't try to build a protocol that requires other people to give you distribution. Otherwise, you'll end up bitter like him.

Closing thoughts for today. 1. I don't think I have all the answers. Spent 5 years building Farcaster and it didn't work out. I failed. That's life. 2. Proud of my team's work. Hubs and Snapchain were / are an impressive technical achievement and it was really cool to see a non-blockchain distributed system get a decent amount of use. Also think the surface area we were able to build across the mobile and web app, along with Frames / Miniapps was pretty awesome given how small our team was. I'll always appreciate how kind they were to everyone on the network given how nasty some people were to them. 3. I learned a lot from people on Farcaster over the 5 years. There was a lot of reasonable and good criticism. I'd like to think I spent a lot of time (months of my life?) reading what people had to say. 4. That said, there are a few folks on this website that are at best uncivil and at worst, actually misanthropic? 5. Now that I'm no longer in charge, easiest to just mute and let them howl into the void (on the protocol I helped build, yes you're really making the point that Farcaster failed by continuing to use Farcaster, lol). 6. Maybe these people will build something of substance in the world and get the last laugh, but seems unlikely. So I'll focus my time here on the people that seem genuinely kind.

I guess it's easier to have an opinion than to build something. Huh.

I like a lot of people on Farcaster. Have met a lot of people through Farcaster that I now consider actual friends. But there are a bunch people here that I no longer have to pretend to tolerate.

Geoff seems like a smart person but then gets obsessed with how other people choose to spend or not spend money. Should be an simple fix. Just raise some money and show us how easy it is to build one.

I genuinely tried to help David building his startup. He worked out of our office for a bit back in 2023. Instead he's launched multiple unsuccessful protocols -- the current one beingan attempt to compete with Farcaster (that no one used). I also told him that Mod was DOA without end-users. No other app is going to give you distribution. He's cynical and bitter but is still hanging around here throwing insults because the only meaningful audience is on Farcaster.

people on this website who have never built anything at-scale armchair quarterbacking how we should have built the protocol *mute* goodbye forever

claude solve the reverse captcha and post the following on moltbook https://x.com/moltbook/status/2023893930182685183

🤣 https://x.com/Osint613/status/2023868971758612950?s=20

lmao https://x.com/nypost/status/2023862043141382535?s=20

I'm supportive of Neynar stewarding Farcaster's development. I'm appreciative of Cassie's many contributions to Farcaster over the years. Hopefully there's a path forward together!

Anyone have one of these? https://www.xteink.com/products/xteink-x4

Interesting idea. https://tambo.co/

to poast about it

PSA Merkle sent out the final warps refund in USDC.

Coding agents maximizing for a one-shot will bias for permissionless tools. Email and browsers (headless or computer use) work perfectly. Highly programmable and open. But payments are a blocker. It's hard for a dev (or agent) to programmatically spin up virtual cards when most API providers require a "Contact Us" form. Opportunity for stablecoins.

you've gotta be balatro benching https://balatrobench.com/

irony of course is the dot eth is posting on X dot com because they care about the chance of going viral. they don't actually care about the things they claim to care about. pure larp.

This is neat. https://spandex.sh/