Oddbean

There is something interesting in farcaster frames and the new solana blinks which makes crating microapps easy. I think we’re missing this in Nostr. Right now we have good tooling for full apps, and “medium” apps like listr.lol but not a microapp which is smaller. Think an app which exists within / for a single event kind. A good example is say a poll event kind where you could have a microapp which let people vote (publish a reply event), see results (aggregate and display all replies), propose a change to the poll options (edit/version the original event), etc…. There could me a kind of directory do poll microapp providers for each event kind / type of microapp. Or some nostr apps could hard code their own provider. If there is one directory it should be easy to run an alt so we don’t have a single point of centralization. https://solana.com/docs/advanced/actions

💯 yes to both, we had lots of these in Solid, per event apps, and small micro apps that would do something small. I had a go back in the day at some components: https://nostr-components.github.io/event/ And small apps like: https://nostrapps.github.io/taproot/ You can build lots of things like this quite quickly, but it's not yet taken off on nostr.

By the way this is the mechanism Tim Berners-Lee wanted to turn the web into a full operating system. You have different kinds (or Types) and each of them gets rendered as a micro app. It is what he hacks on these days.