Oddbean

It's a privilege and honor to receive this grant from the Human Rights Foundation to work on Nostr. There are so many incredible contributors to Nostr and other human rights efforts who are just as, if not more, deserving. I'm very grateful to be playing a small part in shaping Nostr. Thanks to @Alex Li @gladstein and everyone else involved at HRF for making this possible. Thanks to @jb55 for creating Damus and shaping the Nostr protocol. Thanks to @montzstar and @klabo for allowing me to create Nostr SDK for Apple Platforms with you. 🫂 https://hrf.org/hrf-bitcoin-development-fund-grants-1-billion-satoshis-to-14-projects-worldwide/ https://i.nostr.build/KGX02.jpg

Thank you! This grant is for me to work on Nostr part time over the next ten months. I’m not in a good enough position to go full time into Nostr just yet. I have three tentative focus areas. Not sure if I’m committing more than I’m able to deliver, but here it is. 1. Comingle. Implement and rollout the meetup / conference client on iOS and Android, and eventually Web. Aiming to ship some basic release in time for Nostriga in August. 2. Nostr SDK for Apple Platforms. Implement the outbox model (relay hints), finish the list implementation, NIP-17 DMs, zaps. Have at least two iOS clients use the SDK. 3. Damus. Internationalize user-facing copy for the multiplatform version of Damus which will support Android. Continued development of the translations pipeline for iOS. Any miscellaneous features or bug fixes on iOS. It’s also an aspiration of mine to build a native iOS Nostr event signer app, similar to Amber on Android, but I don’t think I can commit to doing it unless I drop something else. It’s important, though.