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rish

@rish #194

working on farcaster infrastructure @ /neynar, neynar.com πŸͺ /rish
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okay continuing on this theme

another thing that I personally like β€” building things where founders are the target customers

build stuff the founding team will want to use, and then use it β€” makes it much easier to alpha test

if you keep using it, see if others want it, most chances are someone will

tweak as needed to expand market

(obv this is just one of the many ways to stumble upon something that works, happens to be something I’ve enjoyed personally)
if building clients, you can now hide low quality replies behind a "show more" flag similar to warpcast

just pass `fold=above` as part of the request params in the conversation endpoint: https://docs.neynar.com/reference/cast-conversation

even if not hidden, replies will already be ranked by quality

reach out with feedback or questions πŸͺ
(since I put my preferences out there, only fair that I put more such content in this channel)

Here is something I believe in + recommend:

Avoid "champagne problems" - problems that arise after customers use your product enough.

_what happens if we get 100 users and don't have a glasses for the celebratory champagne? let's get the glasses first so we are ready_

this is the same as:
- what if our server can't scale to N requests/min? No need to solve that till your product is at N rpm.
- customers will immediately ask for feature Y after trying feature X. Yes probably, get them to try X and care enough to ask for Y.

Musk is iterating on rockets that go to space. Iteration works. Do not get champagne glasses, just launch.

https://warpcast.com/rish/0x10585304
personal preference for this channel -

more helpful info for founders (this includes asking good questions to other founders) and fewer launches, memes, etc. There are other channels for that content.

putting it out there in case helpful for moderators
outage

investigating
super late to watching this but crazies man made thing ever seen?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42QHfZzGZs0
/rish
when your cofounder is the CTO but you're right about something in the code

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JSbuBRIGnL4
/Memes
hello world
/rish
ngl way more excited about getting a robot than getting a self driving car

i like driving, i dont like doing dishes
/rish
We're hiring two staff engineers

We work on interesting infrastructure problems, make $$ and have a strong balance sheet; team is all engineering, remote within the US

Silicon Valley cash and equity compensation

Requirements:
- 6+ years engineering experience
- physically located within American timezones

If interested, reach out over DCs πŸͺ

https://bit.ly/3U3QsG0
/dev
apparently me on fb 15 years ago
/rish
hiring is harder than fundraising
webhooks seeing issues, missed events will be fired once resolved

PS - bad week for network stability, working through hub stability and workflows depending on it
if you’re fetching replies to a conversation, they’ll can now be ranked by quality of replies

uses @openrank scores as one of the ingredients

reach out with any questions πŸͺ
TIL Signal has good update messages
As channel changes go live tomorrow, here's 3 key things re: Neynar APIs

1. feed/channels API will default to showing casts from channel members only https://docs.neynar.com/reference/feed-channels ,there will be a flag to toggle this off if needed

2. feed/parent_urls API will show what's on the protocol so there's still a way to get raw protocol data for something that's not a warpcast channel

3. channel/member APIs are already live: https://docs.neynar.com/reference/list-channel-members

reach out with any questions πŸͺ
our webhook fires are backlogged, actively investigating

all backed up events will be fired once resolved
if you provide a `viewer_fid` in any of our APIs, all blocks by the user will automatically be respected

nothing additional needed

react out if any questions πŸͺ
Farcaster will have its usual dev call this week and next week (it got offset due to dev day last week)

Neynar dev calls will be back to usual schedule starting Oct 17

In the meantime, if you have questions please reach out πŸͺ
we’re experiencing intermittent issues

investigating
Has anyone made a dashboard for user retention based on protocol metrics? i.e. 7d, 30d, 60d, 90d retention based on whether user account registered an action on the protocol

I thought I'd seen one but can't find it now

Possible to make on our sql playground or Dune
/rish
there was a less liked purple button in the mac app a few years ago

unfortunately dont have a screenshot
Continuing to improve algo choices

If building a feed, now possible to fetch personalized for-you feeds and trending feeds across a variety of providers: neynar, openrank, mbd

simply toggle the provider flag in the API

docs.neynar.com/reference/feed-trending
docs.neynar.com/reference/feed-for-you

h/t @shreyas-chorge, reach out with feedback / questions πŸͺ
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