Can Nostr fix app distribution?
I asked myself this question about a year ago and went down the app store rabbit hole.
This is what I wrote back then, before the first line of code in Zapstore.
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Quickly read through but I didn't see any mention of #nix package manger .. it is probably the biggest package repository , available across Linux and Mac .. and the best part is it uses the hashes to keep every version separate .. like I can have zapstore version 1 and version 2 installed on same machine without any conflicts .. in most app stores ( old apt) you could only have one version ..mostly the latest !
Yes nix is amazing. I think it's significantly less used than the package managers I mentioned.
Yes .. because it is not tied to a major distro ..unless you are committed enough to use NixOS :-) ..which is not bad to be fair but very little google documentation compared to Debian or Ubuntu ..
I like it cuz I like to do distro hopping .. so an independent package manager is less learning time wheather you are on mac or any other Linux distro .. works on Android ( termux ) too .. ..
I love it. But I'm trying to solve a problem for most people
There's also Guix.
Why be apps when they can be PWA sites / URLs ? Nobody has to host a package & users are just pulling in the URL they need to do the thing they need to do.
It's great. But the market prefers apps. There are several reasons why
nostr:nprofile1qyghwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnvv9hxgtcqypex583xrnryw3n5aq59uw23kwa38xlf5aeart85nhyx3kuxrgwpzjh056v Just curious, what is the difference between nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7qghwaehxw309aex2mrp0yhxummnw3ezucnpdejz7qpq0r8xl2njyepcw2zwv3a6dyufj4e4ajx86hz6v4ehu4gnpupxxp7s85uvay and https://accrescent.app/ ?
You have wonderfully explained the differences between the various app stores in this post. nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzq7xwd748yfjrsu5yuerm56fcn9tntmyv04w95etn0e23xrczvvraqqszz6w8ff60gn8rvlrye559jpv3s2eckjxx0qqgy7g0k8c78f98plcs93eac