I need proof of this. Whos making a decentralized self hostsable forum with using a android app client to self host the server & serve others with no telemetry in it?

it's not the code part that needs funding the most, but the marketing, the envelope, and the conference's limousines 🤌

the business moat is probably operational excellence and reputation in the nostr space—maybe first mover too. sure anyone can vibe up or clone clients but is anyone just vibing up quality relays ? i mean more than just running strfry and calling it a day. but maintaining uptime, data preservation guarantees, spam filtration and wot services, etc.? that seems harder to copy and there is reputation involved.

the moat is small though for sure… if anyone tries to charge too much their service will get copied by someone willing to take less. at some point quality starts to matter and people will pay… thinking specifically back to when reddit had a more open api and loads of clients existed…many of which charged a few bucks on the app store for the download.

i dogfood my own mostly vibed client just for fun and i recognize that it’s shitty here and there but i know the edge cases and will fix them when they cause me too much pain. right now i don’t really place a high value my ability to send a few shitposts or catch up on some of the bigger names’ takes on here. it’s fun to have but if i lost it nbd.

there are probably people out there who actually rely on influencing-adjacent talking head-esque income streams and for them being seen and having a reliable social media, streaming, long form publishing platform is way more valuable to them. so they’d probably pay a little more for a step up from the usual rough-edged vibed client and free relays.

Off protocol value. You build your startup and use nostr as a bootstrapping mechanism. Offer something that stays behind a moat.