Permissionless signups are around the corner and it feels like the Farcaster community is just getting started! 🔥 We wanted to share a list of ideas that we think would be cool to build on top of Farcaster.
Clients
Farcaster being a turing complete protocol means that Warpcast is just one of the ways to interact with the underlying data and the people in your network. Here's a few ideas we'd love to see in the ecosystem:
Slack UI on top of channels, responses to a parent cast show up in Slack-like thread views (https://farcord.com/, https://farchat.xyz/ 👀)
Instagram story / TikTok like client for seamless video creation and consumption - memes channel is a good example of how funny the community can be with still images, we might be able to unlock more with other media types
Fitness client that integrates Whoop, Strava, Nike+, Apple Health data and combines that with the conversations and the network in the Fitness channel
Permissionless channel browsing client for content under
parent_urlsthat don't show up on Warpcast; can also create channels on the fly and write to such new channels
Analytics
Quantified analytics for your profile - essentially farcaster.network but for any given
fid(www.farcasteruserstats.com/)Reputation scoring based on engagement / activity / follower <> following relationships on the protocol - will only get more important after permissionless signups
Protocol usage for Farcaster users i.e. which protocols / dapps does the Farcaster population use the most, what are interesting finds on the tail end? (dune.com/yesyes/farcaster-users-onchain-activities)
Developer
Explorer that takes in a hub url and provides a stream of data from that hub, useful for troubleshooting when developing (casthose.xyz 👀)
Plug and play bot platform - no code tools to build a bot on Farcaster
Marketing solutions
Marketing tools for Farcaster e.g. social pilot for Twitter (saymore.tv 👀)
Fun
List is incomplete without experiences that are not utilitarian but just fun to play around with
FC profile trivia - answer questions about Farcaster users and earn bragging points e.g. "why doesn't dwr eat fruits?"
Extension that inserts FC content on Twitter so that when viewing Twitter feed or profile, tweets and casts show up interspersed on the same timeline
Mutual follows - when looking at a profile, see who amongst your following graph follows them (docs.neynar.com/reference/relevant-followers)
Unfollowed by - who's the target of unfollows 🌶 (hatecast.xyz)
Have other ideas or already built any of the above? Ping @rish and we will update this list!
A letter to @neynar: I'm viewing Neynar as the Farcaster cloud. Neynar is not only abstracting away backend & infra, but will also provide Farcaster data services to businesses like Salesforce did with cloud CRM. There is a wealth of data in what people say: hivemind-as-a-service! https://onchainletters.xyz/neynar
h/t @rish for jamming with me last weekend and thanks @linda and @pirosb3 for providing feedback!
Beautiful stuff Man, love the writing (& formatting specially) 🔥 given I am a dummy would have loved a caption here to say if this pic is once upon or interface. Would have also loved more expansion on these etc’s. Farcaster x Neynar as symbiotes a useful frame. Sharing on me tweeeter
Caption note (attached both but only one showed?)
Love it! Your analysis on potential paths and ways to play off of it are awesome. Would actually love for someone to provide a „data lake of Farcaster“ so users can train custom models (think GPTs) on a subset of that labeled data If easy enough would be fine. Like: degen GPT that learns with new /degen posts
I’m obsolete now! This is the end of farsign!
Yes, it’s weird… it’s one of the first project a lot of people have used… and now, I must move on. Don’t know what to do next…
One idea - the entire crypto industry is on Farcaster but no one has built a professional network-focused client. I imagine advanced search, crm-like tools and powerful slide in dc features
Someone needs to build this around channels else we will have to build it ourselves at some point... There's a lot of problems we solve for our customers in private TG threads and would love to do that in a forum where the solutions are public. https://blog.neynar.com/farcaster-ideas
maybe herocast will work for this? @hellno.eth need the ability to link cast urls when pointing to already written solutions
yeah moving in this direction. herocast has very basic cast → thread view in notifications. Want to add this to feed and channels too. Threads in FC can be more nested than in Slack, need to adapt it slightly
Want to use something like this instead of the DMs we have in TG (unless the questions actually need to be private). Helps build a public knowledge base of how the protocol works Will happily recommend Herocast to customers once you're ready :) All our customers are already on FC so the only onboarding is to the app
.@fun built out hatecast.xyz based on a random conversation we had about app ideas for Farcaster. There are many things we'd love to build at @neynar if we had the time but spoiler alert: we don't. So would love to see others build these! https://paragraph.xyz/@neynar/farcaster-ideas 🪐
I like the idea of a fitness client being the preferred power user client for the fitness channel
@steph and @vm were thinking along these lines :) not sure what the latest thinking there is
not so much a client, but along these lines! :)
@christopher
building the fitness network, but currently tearing it down and rebuilding primitives that @stephancill has been shipping with Opencast
DONT LET YOUR DREAMS BE DREAMS
@fun v cool! With 1 api call to Airstack we can fix this
👀 tell me more because some usernames are numbers but they don't correspond with the same fid, ie @14 could be fid 1883 or with ens names, they might have a fname of @dwr but their ens is dwr.eth so how would it find the correct fid? because the profile urls are /users/{fid}
in airstack we have all the fnames and ENS names and they are unique and resolve to each other, so you can enter betashop or betashop.eth or jasongoldberg.eth and they resolve to the same farcaster account if you want to add FID you can have users type: "FID:(602)"
Opencast has mutual follows info and permissionless channel browsing/creation :)
nice! really cool that I can respond to any url :) will update the blog to mention opencast against that idea
Great list! May or may not be working on a few things related to an idea or two on that list(and one might’ve sparked from our convo 👀)
love it
great list. will match up to 3eth/5k usdc for any credible builder that uses @fabric to raise money to work on one of these
@fun Wow, the idea of this app is fantastic yet cruel. using it has also made today the saddest day since I joined Farcaster. 💔
OOF i am sorry for the timing
Still following you 🫂
🫂Promise to keep mutually following each other until the farcaster protocol is closed, okay? 🥺