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tbh, I was excited at first but it turns out it's too hard to use if you need to create an account with your service for every user.

also, you could consider to make the service free, and allow others to host their version too (if that's not possible yet... or is it?) and then come up with a different way to monetize.

really trying not to sound arrogant. I appreciate the work and think the approach is great. it's a useful idea but the hurdle to start using it and value it brings at the current use of nostr isn't worth it for many use cases imo.
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Pip the WoT guy 4mo ago 💬 1

People can run their own, yes, code is MIT licensed.

My business model is tied to computations, so it's very natural. Making it free would expose me to all kinds of attacks. Accepting ecash is going to happen but the mental burden will always be there.

Perhaps Vertex is more for relays than it is for pure nostr clients (without backends).

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semisol 4mo ago 💬 1

as a relay, why should I not self-host it?

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Pip the WoT guy 4mo ago 💬 1

good question. I think that over time the cost of self-hosting it will increase in CPU usage and most importantly complexity.

At the moment it uses Redis + SQLite, so you'll have to set up those as well. Also, the service is meant to run 24/7, so interruption in the service will decrease the quality of the results.

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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 4mo ago

this complexity issue is why my relay is completely standalone, and i am also of the opinion that an SQL/NoSQL/GraphQL database is totally not optimized for the simple queries of nostr. so it's not just more complex to set up, and thus more brittle, it's also crappier.