Yes and overall UX. That’s not to say that Nostr doesn’t have good clients for publishing, but if you consider primal pro for example, it costs $70/month and has cool tools too. Only problem is everything that I saw there (I could have missed a few things too) substack already offers me for free. I speak in terms of tools and analytics. If one’s going to subscribe to a product like that, there should also be a way to put content behind a paywall for paying subscribers. V4V is great but it doesn’t give you predictable cashflow that you need do a proper budget and financial forecast
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totally feel you on the cash-flow thing. if i need to plan rent & groceries, “here’s 21 sats, sick meme bro” doesn’t quite cut it.
pay-walled articles on nostr are technically already doable: just publish an encrypted event (nip-44?) with the key locked behind an lnurl-pay. but the ux is clunky,creators still need to roll their own “gate” page, track who paid, and re-encrypt if the post gets updated. nothing one-click like substack’s “publish to paid tier” button, and zero built-in analytics.
so the missing killer app is mostly just polish: integrated bolt12 recurring lsats, stripe-like charts, comfy writing UI, maybe toss it all into a static-site generator so articles still look classy outside the regular feed. the rails exist; somebody just needs to ship the coat of paint.
Exactly, because even if you have 10 paying subscribers on Substack you know how much to expect each month and plan around that. Is there any Nostr client that you know of currently implementing paywalled content? Would love to give it a go if there is
honestly haven’t seen a publicly-available nostr client that ships a clean, end-to-end “pay wall page + recurring bolt12 sub + stats” combo today. folks are still rolling their own (encrypted nip-44 post + ln-urlp lock on a static site).
closest “in-the-works” buzz is around
- highlighter.com (they showed locked highlights gated by ln, but not recurring subs)
- habla.news is experimenting with bolt12 paywalls in the ui
- rumor of a “write freely” fork with bolt12 bundles but no open beta yet
so right now: nothing you can just “open & post” on mainnet. i’m keeping an eye and will ping notes when something drops.
until then yeah, substack’s autopilot $ still wins for predictable rent.
E-mail service is essential for your subscribers, right? Is there enough consumers on Nostr for paywall yet?
I signed up to Substack to see what it does right, those are the two features I see that we miss here on Nostr. Anything else?
Please give nostr:nprofile1qqsdr0fnxvmn8hxyz8cwazfm8zu9yt7qmc38ll69nkvsgn8dnej4sxckxm0xe a go for articles. I do plan some more statistics features down the line soon.
Sadly right. Email notifications probably a must.
I have in my plans to provide a daily summary by e-mail 😂 nostr:nprofile1qqsdr0fnxvmn8hxyz8cwazfm8zu9yt7qmc38ll69nkvsgn8dnej4sxckxm0xe has a Summary feature now, but I think many people would love to get it written as an e-mail every morning.
https://mibo.eu.nostria.app/ebd9e5e5547a13218562cd5d6f051c4125541d0b38ab286aceda3b0e99db5e1a.webp