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Excited to share that @neynarxyz is acquiring @farcaster_xyz. This means we will now maintain the Farcaster protocol, run the Farcaster client and operate Clanker. Our vision is to enable builders to go from idea to recurring revenue, supported by a builder-first network. See more of our thinking in the link in reply

@pirosb3 Learning how to build something from scratch seems good use of time tbh, even if it fails

@rish_neynar I mostly agree with you but you are not factoring the cost of time, the ultimate finite resource.

most founders, myself included, significantly overstate the risk they’re taking. leaving a stable job in the US with savings, a network and hireable skills is uncomfortable. maybe stressful, maybe embarrassing if your company fails. but the downside is still mostly “get another job.” that is not nothing but it is not the risk we pretend it is. real risk is the kind your brain will not let you fully imagine. like free soloing el cap or fighting on the frontlines of an active war zone. your brain rejects the image before you finish forming it. most of us have never been close to anything like it. building a company is hard but hard and dangerous are not the same thing. when we confuse the two, we inflate our own story and become worse at recognizing courage elsewhere.

@omgidrawedit @alemac94 If you have 2FA and lost it, I’m not sure we can do much. 2FA is fully on your side If you bump the email thread with a screenshot of this thread, I’ll take another look

@alemac94 @rish_neynar ah man, thanks for tagging i have no clue who to speak to

i just claimed my first tranche (16.67%) of $SNAP (the farcaster fork token). sold a bit, so i could buy back more if it goes lower. info how you can claim: farcaster.xyz/alemac/0xe0850…

@Specktacularly @_clemens__ @farcaster_xyz Will be there

@_clemens__ @farcaster_xyz Are you joining us in Rome, @rish_neynar ? 🇮🇹 See y’all up North.

Who‘s at Farcon in Rome? Let’s make @farcaster_xyz based again

people keep saying “consumer is hard” there are 8 billion consumers but only like 200 million companies. consumer is clearly the bigger market. not sure why b2b founders act like they found the cheat code here.

@eleh_ossai still haven't found the exact right one

@rish_neynar I was surprised when I discovered that @rish_neynar as changed his user name 7 times. I wish @rish_neynar can grant interview for many of us to know him more 0x5Ba3EbF4afa1041D55BF2709C32EFa9bf2F2EB07

i ran back from a party in amsterdam at midnight to send someone an api key. when we launched Neynar, there was no free trial, no free tier, no automated onboarding. you paid $30, landed on a page that said you’d get your api key soon and then waited for me to email it to you. so every signup paged my phone. i’d be at dinner, in a conversation, asleep, whatever. notification goes off. I check stripe. send the email. go back to what I was doing. in the beginning, every signup felt like an event. we’d talk about who signed up, what they were building, whether they got unblocked, whether the api worked for them. eventually the manual thing became absurd and we automated it. but those early weeks were useful. when people say “do things that don’t scale,” it sounds like a tactic. like some startup wisdom you apply because pg wrote it down. it’s not really that. you basically become the system for a while. you are the onboarding flow, the customer support queue, the api key generator, the bug tracker, the person who knows exactly who is building what because you literally emailed them after they paid. eventually you have to automate it. but if you automate too early, you miss the part where the product teaches you what it wants to become.

before Neynar helped thousands of apps and millions of accounts write to Farcaster, it was an NFT social app that could take 30 seconds to load. @manan19 and I left Coinbase to build something around Farcaster but didn’t know what it would become. the app was slow. large social graphs could take 30 seconds to load, so we started running our own hub and built internal infra to make it usable. around then, @varunsrin asked on Farcaster if anyone was going to build “Alchemy for Farcaster.” we looked at what we already had and put up a stripe checkout shortly after. naturally, the first subscriber was varun. he’s still paying, which we should probably fix. we weren’t looking to become an infrastructure company. we were looking for the moment when someone paid us money without being asked twice. once we found it, everything else got built around that signal.

@HannibalEun indeed 👀

@rish_neynar lol what? but how are you going to build smth that ppl will pay subscriptions for?

i don’t understand why startups raise money if you need $2m, you can simply sell 2 million $1 subscriptions then you still own the whole company feels like vcs have done a very good job hiding this from founders

@Elehchineye @JackDishman 👀

@rish_neynar @JackDishman It's a new token I just launched and I try to buy the token

I keep wondering why the token I deployed with clanker has a high price impact as I try to buy it 0x3672b7a190ea7bf776c3b01250b975f63ccdfb07 @rish_neynar @JackDishman there is a need to find solution to this kind of issues

@autos_speed 👀

I don't know what is going on with clanker, I launched this token a few minutes ago. I try to buy the token but it's telling me no routes Ca:0x1C2Dd063bb9d36e7cE74d52789732c8adD4bCB07 @rish_neynar kindly help on this

@omiaydin @farcaster_xyz @nicky_sap @bettercallzaal They don’t. Storage is at the protocol level

@rish_neynar @farcaster_xyz @nicky_sap @bettercallzaal So how do people track over 600 people without buying anything?

great convo between @nicky_sap x @bettercallzaal x @rish_neynar!

@omiaydin @farcaster_xyz @nicky_sap @bettercallzaal No, same for everyone. Go to app > profile menu > settings > storage > buy more storage

@rish_neynar @farcaster_xyz @nicky_sap @bettercallzaal Is it just me who's getting this limit? Please, what do I need to do to remove this limit?

@omiaydin @farcaster_xyz @nicky_sap @bettercallzaal You’re probably out of storage units, we’ve a roadmap item to make that clearer in app. Right now, the app doesn’t point it out

@rish_neynar @farcaster_xyz @nicky_sap @bettercallzaal I've had a follower limit of 600 for the past 6 months and I don't know why. They're not fixing it either.

@omiaydin @farcaster_xyz @nicky_sap @bettercallzaal What’s the problem?

@farcaster_xyz @nicky_sap @bettercallzaal @rish_neynar I reckon you might be the most unhelpful team in the world. Because for months now, you haven’t even bothered to reply to my message, let alone find a solution to my problem.

Had a great chat with @rish_neynar this afternoon alongside my co-host @bettercallzaal. We discussed: - Where he sees @farcaster_xyz going from here - What's happening with the @clanker_world ecosystem - How he views the Hypersnap fork - What a "builder-focused" network looks like now and in the future - and much, much more! If you missed it, catch the recording here

@kazani351 @farcaster_xyz @neynarxyz DMd

@farcaster_xyz @rish_neynar @neynarxyz Hey team, I need some urgent help with my Farcaster account recovery, it's turning into a real nightmare. I got locked out due to Advanced Protection (which I enabled last year and forgot about).

@kazani351 Ack

Can the team please look into why the recovery emails led to a "create account" prompt instead of login? Really hoping for a resolution soon. 6+ days (and counting) of total lockout is tough. Appreciate any escalation