Erik and Jonathan · Fotocaster
Zaal sits with Erik and Jonathan (JC), the two builders behind Fotocaster, a Farcaster mini app for putting photography on chain. Both came to Farcaster as photographers - Erik as a nomadic investor who picked up a camera, JC as a working photographer and former co-host of I Took A Photo. They walk through why they built Fotocaster: frustration with high take rates and low ownership on existing NFT apps, and a thesis that putting something on chain should be separated from selling it - not everything needs to be a marketplace, some things are just collected. The app gives creators full control over editions, pricing, and titling, with artists keeping 99% and 1% routed back to fund free on-chain deployment. Two weeks post-launch: 371 creators, 787 collectors, 4,000 photos collected. Open questions discussed on air: moving storage from IPFS to Arweave, and how to make the public-good model self-sustaining long term.
- fotocaster
- farcaster
- on chain photography
