Oddbean new post about login | logout Wow, hate to hear this. I thought there was further financial support coming from @jack no? Hope you can keep building!
Not that I’m aware of, I was told I am no longer eligible for more opensats grants as they don’t want to be “kingmakers”.
Still gonna try subscriptions?
Oh please… 🙄 I hope OpenSats changes their mind. I support #Nostr LTS grants for vital projects like Damus. I wish @OpenSats would focus on funding relay infrastructure and a few solid clients, rather than throwing funds at like 10,000 clients. What’s the point of reinventing the wheel 10,000 times? These clients are open-source — there’s a reason Snort and Iris merged, because a lot of the work is redundant. We need a few open-source gems, not more sloppy clients. Quality over quantity.
I highly doubt OpenSats would not renew damus
But members of their board are vc funding competing clients? Why would they?
You'd have to ask them
VC funded clients like @miljan are absolutely necessary, and are the proven, track record option to find an avenue to healthy, sustainable business. Miljan and team are making huge strides across all platformd. This is required for a healthy nostr ecosystem that eventually hopes to beat Wef-chat/twtr at nostr’s game. The potential of @OpenSats to fund *exploration* of a non-VC path of a thus far well received client in Damus cannot be understated. I am grateful for funding for Damus thus far, and genuinely want to understand - why stop funding an extremely lean, extremely productive project now?
I AGREE WITH ALL OF THE ABOVE WHICH IS WHY WE ARE CURRENTLY FUNDING DAMUS AND MANY OTHER CLIENTS. WILL HAS MY DIRECT CONTACT INFO AND NEVER REACHED OUT. WHY?
We have reached out by email months ago, we never got a response.
Sent another one a couple hours ago, I think there just needs to be some clarification because there has been lots of confusion around the whole process.
I offered to fund it and work together. He ignored it.
Maybe he deliberately wants to can it! Since the zaps went away, the project is on downswing. He is probably wanting to work on something else.
I want to build a business built in bitcoin. I can’t do that by building an app exclusively on apples platform, which is why i’m building a multiplatform client where I can do whatever I want. So no I do not want to work on something else, I’m just fighting to keep it alive and it’s very stressful because Ive had to start over from scratch and am playing catch-up against well funded companies.
So would the Damus app go away or would it be incorporated into the bigger project? I feel bringing zaps back will revive Damus and the monetisation issue. Not sure if Cake can help here. But it will be a third party similar to WOS and might be able to help with App Store compliance. Cake is a well used app with its own user base. It supports btc and xmr. Just a few random thoughts.
> I feel bringing zaps back will revive Damus and the monetisation issue. This is why im building an android app…
That’s just trading one centrally controlled App Store for another. I put up a 0.1 BTC bounty to get lightning polls implemented on nostr and since March it’s only in Amethyst. Sure another OS opens up your TAM but why not look at user-funded upgrades for things Damus Users want?
This article might be very relevant here @jb55 . Would be even more relevant if you see who authored it. Esp around the ‘btc only’ view. https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/quiz_fox_or_hedhtml 🦊 OR 🦔