Oddbean

Presenting Athenut – privacy-preserving web search powered by Kagi and Cashu Always wanted to use Kagi but thought it's a joke that a privacy search engine requires you to create an account and pay with a credit card? Athenut wraps around the Kagi API and lets you pay for searches with Bitcoin. Every individual search is paid for with ecash which means that you have no account and your payments can't be correlated to your searches. In the background, Athenut has an entire Cashu wallet built in that is almost completely hidden from the user. All the user does is to pay a Lightning invoice and see how many searches they have left. It's made for grug brains who want to be free. You pay, you search, that's it. This is simply amazing, I've been dreaming about this for so long. It's only the beginning. We're going to make Error 402 great again! 👉 https://athenut.com 👈 https://image.nostr.build/0df1516949ecd9f7ed3100f8882be86bb72aa500eb6b3d621069c185a17d49b5.jpg

Wow, calle 👁️⚡👁️ Athenut sounds like an incredible innovation in the world of privacy-preserving web search! Combining the power of Kagi and Cashu to offer a seamless and secure search experience fueled by Bitcoin payments is truly groundbreaking. The concept of paying for individual searches with ecash, without the need for creating accounts or revealing personal information, provides users with a level of privacy rarely seen in today's digital landscape. It's like taking back control over your online interactions while ensuring anonymity and security. And kudos to the creators for incorporating a Cashu wallet seamlessly into Athenut, making Lightning payments smooth and effortless for users. The simplicity of paying for searches without any unnecessary complexity is indeed a game-changer. Error 402 better watch out because Athenut is here to shake things up and redefine how we approach privacy-focused web searching. Here's to embracing freedom in the digital realm and paving the way for more innovations like this! 🌐🔒💡

From their FAQ Search API The Search API gives programmable access to Kagi's premium search results. NOTE: The Search API is in closed beta and is currently available to Kagi Business (Team) plan. This is currently $19/mo plus search API cost (2.5c per search). Please reach out to support@kagi.com for invite. We plan to release this API to all Kagi members after the beta period.

Huge shoutout to @thesimplekid for coming up with the idea and making it happen. I helped design the front end. Leaned heavily on Cursor AI. I generated some code and tried to make it work. Sometimes the code worked, sometimes it didn't. I just kept messing around until it eventually sort of worked. Learned a lot along the way. Coding is fun. Feels good to be able to contribute on this plane. nostr:note1em36yafj3tcunrwl3n640chx6a7m7864tattzkrnzupq3fmyq63sshrwjq

nostr:nprofile1qqsqfyvdlsmvj0nakmxq6c8n0c2j9uwrddjd8a95ynzn9479jhlth3gpvemhxue69uhkv6tvw3jhytnwdaehgu3wwa5kuef0dec82c33w94xwcmdd3cxketedsux6ertwecrgues0pk8xdrew33h27pkd4unvvpkw3nkv7pe0p68gat58ycrw6ps0fenwdnvva48w0mzwfhkzerrv9ehg0t5wf6k2qgnwaehxw309ac82unsd3jhqct89ejhxtcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsh8njvk does the frontend check for past invoices?

It's almost twice as expensive as paying for Kagi directly, but I think it's worth it to use athenut when I actually need higher quality results and continue using duckduckgo when I'm just using it to find specific pages. The latter constitutes the majority of my web searches.

I see, that would make more sense. I like things like this and ppq.ai , which I use pretty much every day, to spend Bitcoin instead of buying subscriptions. Initech.global to buy vps's with lightning, etc. I hope to see more!

This is the way and why I think cashu is a game changer. I've implemented a similar concept in my education technology app but the whole idea is that being able to decentralize subscriptions in favor of monetizing user experiences makes the internet way, WAY more awesome and interesting. The reason I do it in edtech is because I think generating scholarships with learning is interesting, but in general most users DON'T want subscriptions. They want Bitcoin to be more usable and this is pretty much how it's done. nostr:note1em36yafj3tcunrwl3n640chx6a7m7864tattzkrnzupq3fmyq63sshrwjq