Oddbean new post about login | logout A lot of our solutions would be amazingly effective at scale (bitcoin value for value), but are mostly a dud at our current numbers.
what do you think Nostr needs most rn to grow? esp interested in areas that might not have enough attention yet
I'm hoping to grow Nostr by porting B2B SaaS apps to the Nostr protocol. Having zaps and Lightning already integrated is a killer app for new projects. But, yeah, most normies don't know it exists. I think the solution is more marketing to JS, Python, and Go web devs with sample apps for building on Nostr Protocol.
Are you mostly focused on self-serve B2B SaaS apps? Have you discussed/validated any feedback from your target customers yet?
Yes, and no. Validated there's demand the particular idea (hosted mobile app and web testing). Plenty of SaaS offerings in this space (Sauce Labs, BrowserStack, AWS Device Farm). And plenty of people do self-hosted (Selenium Grid). I'm still trying to gauge demand for making a decentralized version, but at the point where I need to "JFDI" a minimal MVP and see what happens. I've talked with some big tech companies that already built out their own version of "in the wild" beta testing by having some number of users volunteer to beta test for free. Million sat question is whether smaller companies not at that big scale would be interested in a paid and more heavily automated version of the idea. (Basically a decentralized, automated TestFlight beta test run... powered by Nostr and paid in sats.)
Higher focus on media content and performance, almost all other social media platforms have high performance and adaptive bitrate video (HLS) which makes video content actually work on most connections. Nostr doesn’t have this at all. The most popular social media platforms these days are video platforms.