Nostr Web Client

Was I wrong?

I always assumed that specialty clients should be able to easily outperform Amethyst on the quality of the features related to their specialty. Users would gradually move away from Amethyst as more and more specialty clients move forward. This culminates with a slow death of Amethyst, but towards a more exciting and decentralized future for Nostr. I have accepted this fate since the early days of the super app project.

This assumption was based on the fact that our development team would simply not have the resources to dedicate the same level of attention and support to every single specialty within Amethyst.

It has been one year and I am sad to report that I have been proven wrong over and over again.

For some reason, developing specialty clients is harder than developing the same features inside of Amethyst.

And that is a loss for decentralization.

Don't Believe The Vibe 🌱🍋🍊 1y ago

As seen from a pure user perspective, I love having all things in one app. I don't want 5 or 10 apps or websites to do similar things or even different things. In contrary if a service/app has a cool feature, I'm always like, damn I want to have this in Amethyst, too (this rarely happens because most stuff already is in Amethyst). Each new app comes with bugs, missing login options, own issues etc. Meh.

As an example I added the DVM discover feeds to noogle first. But do I, the creator of this page like to go on a website to discover feeds.. or do I just want to have this in my go-to nostr app? Yeah the latter for sure. Is there a niche use case for the page to do the thing still? Yeah if people use other platforms / clients that don't support that feature. But it's way more convenient to have these things in my main nostr app.

I think actively using multiple apps for nostr only makes sense if the use cases are very different from the broader kind 1 eco system. And I currently can't even think of any tbh. (and of course to play around, but then again your lists might get messed up and all these things)

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Discussion

Laeserin 1y ago

Small apps don't really make sense, but a new core mega-app, with a shifted user base, can have a big market.

Community-focused or long-form focused or video-focused, and then branch off, from there.

Vitor Pamplona 1y ago

Maybe this is the same debate about AI... Is AI an app by itself or a feature? Many NIPs might not be apps but just features. We just don't know which one is which.