Oddbean

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 I agree with this a lot.

There are particular properties that nostr confers that other way of creating apps do not.

What these properties enable is what should be the value prop’s focus when describing nostr apps to new users.

You can’t get away from describing nostr to do that, but, like @rabble said, the nostr dot com approach is not good either and each app/use-case needs to figure out how to describe what’s relevant/special on its own.

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 I have a personal favorite workflow for this. 

Create an app that is only for nsec creation and profile editing. That is good looking, simple, and has 3 slides of onboarding. 

Apps don’t need to create individual profile creation pages, they just always link to that one app. 

This way, roughly all new users go through that profile creator app no matter which app they get purple pilled with.

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 I disagree with that; the messaging needs to be different if you're making a video hosting app or a coinjoining app. Even just for the account creation flow the pitch and flow needs to stress different points, talk to different users. a one-size fits-all approach wouldn't work.

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 You are not wrong, but this is what we have now. And most apps have relatively weak onboarding. 

Ultimately, no one is forced to use the profile creator app.

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 https://metadata.nostr.com/
https://nosta.me/

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 Yup. Thats exactly what I meant. And I have used both metadata before, and I love it, that’s why I think both of these could potentially work. 

They will need some improvements, but this is a step that psychologically gives the user the understanding that my ID is not specially tied to one app.

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 We need to make nostr dot com into an epic ThreeJS landing page like all the cool kids 😎

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 this is an idea @fiatjaf would love

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 Make it and I will deploy it in the middle of the night while @Ben Arc is asleep.

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