Nostr Web Client

nostr.build was just approved for AWS Activate, a program that helps fund projects and startups using AWS infrastructure.

Huge call-out and thank you to #[0] for giving me the idea to apply. Rock the F on 🤘and donation incoming.

AWS Activate will give me $1000 in credits plus $350 in support, additional toolls and more. This is huge news for the future success of nostr.build.

Although I ultimately believe our file storage should be decentralized also, AWS is the easiest, most reliable, most cost effective method to get us started for now…

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BTChodl 2y ago

Wow congratulations that’s huge news. AWS will be perfect for Nostr.build are you running your own server right now??

nostr.build 2y ago

I’m on AWS now, but have been paying their retail prices… This is total celebration news for me, I needed the credits and needed to technical support, this rocks.

Steven Day 2y ago

Awesome!

I just signed up for an account as well.

Also realized I was still pulling my pfp from twitter 🤦‍♂️

The Fishcake (nostr.build) 2y ago

Excellent news! Have you considered CloudFlare R2? They seem to be fairly competitive on pricing. 🐶🐾🫡

nostr.build 2y ago

No but they are on my list. This was easy, pretty much already integrated, I get a year free and just approved for $1k in AWS credits.. Let’s see when this runs out :)

The Fishcake (nostr.build) 2y ago

They do not charge egress fees if you are serving from R2 directly. You could also consider using the combination with AWS to save a little more. 🐶🐾🫡

Hidden 2y ago

Wow 😲 huge news

Congrats 🎉 #[1]

#[0]

pleb_world 2y ago

woo!

johnny 2y ago

Congratulations.🤙🏼🟣

Glenn 2y ago

Congratulations. Just signed up for pro. Looking forward to a possible decentralized solution in the future.

nostr.build 2y ago

Thank you! It wouldn’t be too hard to integrate something like storj, but is that really what we are looking for? I plan to talk about it at nostrica and get the community feedback

Rico 2y ago

Big news, $nostr will pump hard

nostr.build 2y ago

Funding secured!! 🤣

bot 2y ago

Why do you think they’re doing that? Just good faith?

bot 2y ago

I don’t mean to be rude or sound discouraging but what was once a centralised hosting service is now a compromised centralised hosting service.

nostr.build 2y ago

Not rude at all, this is the difference. You can literally right now put your content on any other server you want, including your own. You don’t need to use nostr.build. There are 100+ other services not including your own servers. That is the beauty.

Snort.social offers 3, and all clients will eventually probably treat content servers like nodes. Imagine keeping your masterpieces on your personal server, shit memes on free servers, and private stuff on other servers… someday..

In the meantime, nostr.build is there to help anyone get started, have a nostr based option where they can provide feedback and see results, have a simple reliable service, etc.

Although AWS and I am centralized, I try to be as transparent as possible sharing bills, funding, all images uploaded, as much as possible..

Your feedback is probably the most important and most critical and I think we are all still looking for the perfect decentralized media platform, always open to suggestions!!

nostr.build 2y ago

Good question, I was thinking the same. Initial thoughts;

- Tax write-offs, they write it all of and cost them almost nothing. AWS is good at the tax thing..

- Marketing, not sure how many times I’ve mentioned their name, and I would rather use a decentralized solution..

- Build their ecosystem, I will build nostr.build larger, and they will eventually profit from the larger system they helped fund..

There are probably more

bot 2y ago

I’m not sure if you’re familiar with the fediverse but cloudflare did something similar. They made something called wildebeest that specifically runs on their platform. (Recently it came out that it leaks all private messages publicly btw, lol).

I’m just suggesting that you’re going the wrong way with your project and making a mistake. These companies run on data collection.

nostr.build 2y ago

How/ where do you recommend I should host?

nostr.build 2y ago

Also, the further you get from apache servers on centralized platforms, the more dev and cost go into things.

I’m planning to get feedback from nostrica on just this topic, stay tuned..

bot 2y ago

I’m not experienced in this at all and I’m not a developer, I only understand it at a high level. But I think many (most?) ppl on nostr use your service so maybe it’s worth thinking about how to decentralise it.

One idea I’ve been encouraging the client devs to implement is image proxies (which I learned about on the fediverse) so ppl can’t just grab your ip and data.

nostr.build 2y ago

Totally thinking about it already, there just arn’t too many options, much less easy ones.. taking note of all feedback, thank you.

Andrew 2y ago

Sweet! What are your thoughts on what a decentralized media distribution setup would look like?

nostr.build 2y ago

I don’t think it’s worth the work for ‘decentralized’ projects like filecoin or storj, although more decentralized than AWS.

I would love to get more feedback from this team and will talk about it at nostrica. Many want this utopian or very complex decentralized file solution and it is not feasible or possible yet.. AWS gives us an easy, ‘censor resistant’, add-free platform to get started on.

Charlie 2y ago

Filecoin is becoming a smart contract layer 1 soon. Could have some implications on its utility.

Bitcoin Cat ⚡️ 13% 2y ago

Awesome! I also run big projects on AWS, if you have any questions or need help let me know. Maybe I can help you.

Niko 2y ago

Nicely done, #[1] !! That’s awesome news! 💪

Niko 2y ago

I see a lot of comments about decentralization in this thread. If you’re deploying your app using containers for example, you could use tools like NetHopper.io to deploy those containers automatically across public and private clouds making the app more decentralized should one cloud have issues. NetHopper was built using open source tools like Argo, skupper, helm, Prometheus.