Oddbean

Most promising things on my mind these days: 1. Any app that lets users buy stuff they cannot buy on Big Tech platforms. - DVM clients, especially combined with GPUtopia etc - Marketplaces for farmers with reputations, recommendations Reason: Real money coming in at scale 2. Apps that integrate P2P communication with relays: Overlap of Nostr & Holepunch. (Instant Giga-File sharing, Superior quality streaming, podcasting apps, ...) Reason: better quality & faster 3. Any app that lets users make decent money and combines it with easy ways of spending it. - Interactive Subscription based newsletters/blogs/courses maybe - AirBnB for bitcoiners or some service like that, where you'd want to select for like minded customers and could actually use the existing nostr social graphs + significant sums of money circulate None of these really exist yet though. Of the existing ones I'd say: - Amethyst (if it does P2P) - Highlighter (if it integrates patrons) - Zap.stream (if it does P2P) - Spring (if it specialises on onboarding)

Amazing input! Why isn't there a big platform that would serve farmers? Any inherent challenges there? Spring will focus on onboarding when existing Nostr users start loving it. We're far from there yet

For Farmers: 1. More and more things are illegal to sell or do as a farmer (especially when it comes to meat and dairy, pasture management, integrating agroforestry, ...). I, personally, already need a way around that. Something like the REKO rings (facebook groups that let people order from local farms and meet at a drop off points or get deliveries) on nostr, where the farmer can selectively let people in his private selling group, could solve that. 2. There's no clear winner in that niche of marketplaces yet (facebook maybe but it sucks for that use case in terms of UI + it censors beef and dairy) 3. Regenerative farming only outcompetes subsidized farming without a middlemen taking a cut For Spring: Awesome! If I can help in any way with the making people love it part -> I'd be happy to.

Re. farming, this sounds like a very hard to bootstrap thing, with goods being not only physical, but also with limited lifetime, requiring high local network density. Although would be an amazing learning to try and onboard your local friends/customers into some usable simple app! Spring had a significant UI change, your feedback on the latest version would be very valuable!

1. Maybe I'm biased because that's the context I live in and because I mostly see my own need for this. But still, the farmers I know are often the people that feel the pain of inflation and Big Tech thievery first. Pain = incentive for change = general openness to bitcoin and nostr. Meat, when frozen, is actually relatively easy to ship and sell online. 2. I'm getting an android phone next week and will start testing.

1. When Fountain becomes a nostr client and also lets, let's say, Citadel Dispatch broadcast live with P2P holepunch connections we'll be talking 😉. 2. I feel the same! Decentralised GPU's + Nostr + Bitcoin 💪