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Yeah, it takes people to get good content worth paying attention to but if everyone says "it's dead" then it will remain dead. But if people voted with attention and said "yeah, it's kind of dead, but if I hang out here and my friends join, then it will be less dead and people will notice and also join..." You basically create the future you want.

Nostr actually has web of trust (WoT) implementations. I think Coracle has this and some others. Nostur even lets you specify how far you want your web of trust to reach. Pretty cool stuff!

Network effects are difficult to replicate. You need lots of users to get a few solid consistent "content" creators. You need even more users to get the content that YOU like. So, it just amounts to having more users. Some might say it's impossible to replicate some existing social platform like X, and that may be true - but at the end of the day, you can vote with your attention and can contribute in ways you would like your space to be, so if you like say... log cabin content, then you can create it yourself and start amassing a log cabin enthusiast audience who will then start sharing their passion for log cabins.

You could just earn it on nostr...

People do want alternatives. Bluesky is a clear example of that. Nostr is clearly not as big, but it's a protocol.

Some nostr apps to demonstrate what it's capable of: https://www.openux.app/ - Mobbin alternative https://kinostr.com/ - movies with chat room https://zap.stream/ - live streaming similar to Twitch https://dtan.xyz/ - torrents https://zapstore.dev/ - permissionless app store https://nostrnests.com/ - audio room chats https://zapmeacoffee.com/ - like buy me a coffee

refern seems to be more general? This one is specifically for app inspiration

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Looks super interesting. I am waiting for the App Store release since TestFlight is full. I like the idea of not requiring a phone number - the only thing makes Signal lose some points in my eyes... well, I guess if the company goes down that might be another reason for open protocols over apps.

It's open source, others can audit it if you can't.

There is no company. It's open source software and data is stored on relays.

Can you ELI5 why this is desired if you are not building a nostr app?

Opt out.

exactly. oooh, computing uses energy! Surprise! Now do porn consumption.

you can't be serious, have you seen how much bitcoin is up?

who is they and what are we talking about? like what? The payments are optional.

I couldn't stop you from calling anything anything you want

Sorry I am not familiar with Mastadon.

There are a few ways to find my content. 1. Follow me 2. Find my note in a hashtag / interest-based relay or in global chat (global will probably not remain for long as the network grows and it gets too noisy / spammy). You'll have interest based relays / tags, however that gets structured. Right now there are no interest-based relays that I know of (yet). 3. Via a boost (equiv. to retweet). 4. Via some sort of ranker. Some clients rank posts by activity.

In general, you have to follow people to discover content you want to see, but it's not a requirement (as outlined above). I definitely think the Nostr experience for people improves dramatically as they follow a few folks.

That's the beautiful part about Nostr, anyone can create a website and "sell" it any way they like.

Network effects. Every new app that joins grows the network without the content creator having to do anything new.

I'm curious what part is daunting to you? I have no issues getting set up on Damus. It was as easy as any other app.

Nostr user here, absolutely love everything I am seeing. I think Nostr is deeply misunderstood by onlookers and I'd like to share a few things that may help clear things up:

1. Nostr is not a social network - it's a protocol on top of many social networks can be built. 2. Nostr is not limited to the social use cases - and I think that is the killer advantage here. With Nostr, you can integrate various other types of apps to facilitate not only chat but content distribution AND payments. One click payments with zaps. 3. Zaps are going to open up a floodgate of use cases that have a significant advantage over legacy ways of doing things. For example: if you have a music app with multiple recording artists, any time someone zaps or streams their song, all artists involved could get paid instantly. 4. Nostr is a discovery powerhouse that enables content to be easily discovered across platforms without gatekeeping. For creators this is great news because they can just publish in one place and be in all (willingly) participating clients/apps. This alone is a huge development that I don't think too many are grasping just yet.

Yes, it is still clunky at times, but the UX and UI is getting better over time. The development model makes it easy for anyone to jump in and build. You are not limited to any particular way of doing things and can create a custom experience for your audience while having access to the entirety of the protocol.

Some resources for people:

- https://www.heynostr.com/ - https://www.nostrapps.com/

I must be working on the wrong types of teams :(

How do larger teams handle async updates outside of text? Are people supposed to share video updates and everyone is just expected to watch them?

I've had positive experiences working with agencies, though generally agree that their business model depends on getting people through the door and out another.

I think they key to making it work is to set very clear expectations and set up a rate that continues billing for the provided value.

No you are not the only one. Seems half the comments here miss the point. It's a clever addition!

There's absolutely no reason that we shouldn't have the capability (in the near future) to generate entire websites with a click of a button and narrated instructions. This is definitely the step in the right direction. Congrats on the progress!

There was one company I saw that had a one click integration as part of their onboarding flow, just forgot to grab the example. It's very clever, and a great way to expose the product to multiple people within your organization (think Slack integration).

You live in a world driven in large part by marketing and sales. It's not a worldview, it's facts.

I am not making any money from "other people's dreams. I sell a product which helps companies make their sites sell better, retain users, and satisfy their users's needs.

Your definition of building "something" other than a digital product is quite interesting, thank you for sharing your view.

Personally, I like to think that I help companies thrive, which means they can hire more people, create more jobs, enable their communities to grow. If that's not impact, I don't know what is. My blogging about it has already inspired many people to pursue their side projects - and I'm very happy about that.

Not really sure what you are getting at here... at all.