I'm completely mindblown that getting ~80% of the way to a decentralized, anonymous bounty marketplace on nostr took less than a day of work.

I've been an application developer for about 15 years and the only "platform" that even came close to this level of efficiency and speed-to-market was Urbit - which had a pile of other flaws, with new user barrier-to-entry being at the top of the list.

When I'm done with this, anyone will be able to easily and permissionlessly create a keypair and start posting bounties or working on them, handling payments with soverieign and private Lightning payments.

I didn't have to ask for permission, sign up for anything, or deal with needlessly complex hosting or build pipelines - nor will a finished version require _me_ to custody any user data. (Of course, this also means I won't be making any money directly from it)

This is unprecedented and tragically undervalued.

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Keep at it man.

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The escrow agent part alone is incredibly powerful.

In context, yea. It's nothing more than a trusted party: "I'm gonna give you sats, take good care of them and either release them to the right person or refund me; i'll give you a cut". But yes, tracking these kind of events on nostr will be a good primitive for building up reputation systems!