i think it’s already great and the best search service for nostr- deserves to be funded 

 love when devs ask for wishlist - it's like christmas came too soon =) 

I remember our early days of conversation on how nice it is to key-in topics into nostr.band and read the conversations around it. Eventually it got too heavy and messy to follow through. 

I think a few things can boost this as you already have a way to detect words on Nostr

1.  Ability of AI to understand sentences and bridge the match
2. People can decide if they want to narrow search based on various credibility factors
3. for users to be able to find certain things from a user's post - twitter does a great job with narrowing to individual post search. 

Btw why are you not funded ? Did you not apply ? 

And what is your business model like ? Are you selling this feature to clients to be integrated ? or is it a subscription model where you get a cut ? Or is it a basic + premium model ? just wondering how you monetize  

 Thank you for the input, topics are an interesting direction.
Nostr.band is funded, there is no business model yet. 

 "Popular notes by user" API 😇 

 Sounds doable, would you prefer it as DVM? 

 Cool! I'd prefer a normal API. 

 Normal API are centralizing because they couple clients to named services. DVMs are one-to-many and make second-layer features fungible. 

 True. But DVMs are 10x harder to work with, they add latency and UI complexity. I will eventually wrap some of our APIs as DVMs and we'll see if they get any meaningful adoption this way. 

 Yes, maybe they won't work. But they have some very nice characteristics that haven't yet been fully tapped 

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 Open source your search implementation as a DVM that other people can run 

 Search as DVM noted, thank you. No plans to open source our relay, but maybe I could make an oss search dvm plugin for strfry...