Oddbean

What is @Satlantis ? It's hard to say. It's a new kind of social app, that's part NomadList, part Meetup, part Instagram, Google Places and Trip Advisor. Some might say "this is not a good thing" bc people don't know how to categorise it, which is a fair criticism, but I'd argue, there was also no way to really describe Facebook or Instagram when they first came onto the scene. Building something NEW requires that you discover what you are along the way. Especially if you're trying to fundamentally transform an industry. If you just want to build another widget or app - sure - it helps to solve a very narrow problem, and position it in a way that's very easy to relate back to something that exists. But...if your aim is to do something both new, and transformative, you have to push boundaries and build things in a way that makes more intuitive sense, than logical sense. That being said, it's got to be done in stages, with each stage delivering some form of very clear & precise value. This week, we'll roll out the first version of Satlantis at @BTCPrague which is basically a "City Home Page" derived from social content on Nostr. Anyone can follow a city, post content about anything in a city, search for & join events, find people in that city, connect with them directly, learn about a city (scores, stats, gallery) and see a dynamic feed with content people are posting on OTHER Nostr apps (if they hashtag the city). In the coming weeks and months, we'll be rolling out rich user profiles, a feature rich merchant map with some really cool review & content features, and much more. Stay tuned. https://m.primal.net/IjZp.png https://m.primal.net/IjZq.png https://m.primal.net/IjZr.jpg

I assume you got the funding from being a deep state Manchurian project, since localization + decentralization is a double-dangerous combo for the military industrial complex Still excited to check it out 🙏

Love it! Also feels like something tech hardware will catch up to soon? 2-3-4 years? so we aren’t all chained to the larger-screen-view of laptop or desktop. Feels a bit like how graphical/creative content evolved from 2D, to 3D, then spunoff into Layers to allow for flexible manipulation and view of the data… can’t wait to check it out.

Yes of course. All events on Satlantis are Nostr events. So visible on Flockstr and any other client that renders that kind of event will see it. And with merchants, we’ll be using the new “places” event that we’ve been developing with Arkinox

The meetup angle is vastly underrated imo. The whole point of a physical meetup is for non-KYC arrangements. That whole project seems like it just runs off of network effects. Would be cool to see this angle evolve to the point where even normie no-coiners curious about bitcoin meetups etc could onboard seamlessly and RSVP to bitcoin meetups etc.

Great start, lots of potential 🧡💜 Although, it took me a while to successfully sign up with my browser extension (nos2x on Kiwi Browser Android) and after being lucky enough to manage to sign up, I couldn't find out how to creat a new place by myself and couldn't figure out what to contribute and how to engage 😉 Some feature ideas to build engagement: - integrated with on site Bitcoin meetup calendars, e.g. https://einundzwanzig.space/meetups - integrate with map e.g. btcmap.org to find local BTC merchants - "been there" option for locations, to build a travel diary, e.g https://findpenguins.com/ - local tourism with Bitcoin payment --> Get your guide marketplace --> Airbnb for Bitcoiner I love the direction @Satlantis is paving, because travel, places and people are at the heart and Bitcoin is just the facilitator bringing it all together. Keep going!