I think one of the thing going forward that I need to work more on is EXPLAINING in plain(ish) english(ish) what it is that the things I work on actually do

I realize I try to lean on function-discoverability too much and that's a problem

A. I'm not great at UX design

B. nostr unlocks new way of doing things and they are not readily apparent

not sure about the format

* writing notes?

* demo videos?

* audio messages explaining what it is (perhaps posting them on zapstr 😅) -- oh, that would be cool, zapstr's chat for that explainer-track could be the "feedback/support line" for that idea 😂

I fucking love nostr

open to feedback/ideas on all this!

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What you did with #[2]​ was amazing…

Also #[3]​ has great videos on how to explain nostr… maybe link up?? I’d love to see that show 🤯🔥🫡💜

YES! we should do a video explaining the highlighter stuff, specially since nostr:npub1kuy0wwf0tzzqvgfv8zpw0vaupkds3430jhapwrgfjyn7ecnhpe0qj9kdj8 understands this problem very well!

You free now? 😉

how about tomorrow? I have a major headache right now 🫤

Did you just come up with that zapstr chat idea for feedback while you were writing that sentence? You crack me up Pablo 😂

share 101 links, administer a simple quiz, and zap the high score learners🤣

Zap to Learn😎

Geniuses and innovators are misunderstood. Most of the time. Keep doing what you are good at and ask friends to help you with the end user and UX / UI side of things.

Working together as a community with a good consciousness of each other strengths and talents is the best thing that can happen to nostr.

Short demo videos ftw

I would love to hear you discuss them with a non dev pleb. It would kind of force you to speak both in dev and layman’s term.

Video is best if visual demonstration is useful.

Notes are always good, we do not always have the time to watch and listen.

Maybe you could write notes as you go but then edit them together adding where needed to make subject specific long form notes

you should pick your medium based on how easy it is for you to produce on a consistent basis. for some that's writing. for others, it's an audio recording. maybe video.

if your goal is to share your work on a regular basis, then it is less important what your audience wants/likes because if it is difficult for you to produce in that medium on a regular basis, then you won't be getting the work out.

plus there are a ton of tools to change one form into another. text to speech, speech to text.

looking forward to what you'll be doing!

You've hit the nail on the head.

I think everyone knows Nostr can be REALLY confusing to new users (e.g. @Natalie Mojo​ works at a hosting company and just today she mentioned how the learning curve for Nostr is rather steep - and she works in technology all day!)

But it's also confusing even to developers like me who are coming from different backgrounds. Much of the discussion feels like it's in Greek or something and it takes me a while to get the gist of what's being said.

There's so much in the Nostr-verse that's possible, but people can't figure it out, so they give up when they try to do it. The folks writing the code aren't writing documentation, so it's really hard to use what they build.

Case and point - I'm in NY, so can't use ZBD. My host (Natalie's company) was setting up notstream for me and I didn't know how I was going to receive payments since I couldn't use ZBD. I saw that nostream could use LNBits but didn't know how to get it working. Finally, after combing through the nostream Telegram group I found a single reference that linked to a Nostr thread that explained it and I was able to figure it out - and it works!

I think if you find pain points and explain to people how to make things work you'll find success. I'd also suggest you find ways to insert yourself into the process so you can monetize your work.

Personally I'm not big on videos or audio. I like written instructions that I can follow step by step (preferably with pictures!)

Good luck!

Let me know if I can help - would be happy to write short guides for your mini (or maxi) projects!

YES! I am counting on you.

I was just telling my wife about the idea you sent me because she pretty much had the same idea

sorry I haven't replied to the DM about it yet but I'm definitely going to make it happen, my friend

oh, and your DM is in my nostr-backed todo list now 😉

oh, and I'll be able to reply to your DM *from* my todo list within highlighter.com 🤯

Short video explainers

Preaching what you practice.

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🤝🤝