Nostr Web Client

I was initially confused by the idea of microapps, because all examples I heard were about social media use case - "edit profile", "edit contact list", "edit relays" etc.

But think about this: we can have nostr events for _any_ data type. Which means _any_ app could be a Nostr app.

Why would you want to make all apps work over Nostr? Because Nostr is the infrastructure for an app ecosystem, much better than the dominant ones like Android/iOS.

- You have an open "cloud database" with a standard API

- You have authenticity and tamper-proof of all events (documents, files, records)

- You have well defined data types (event kinds)

- You have a decentralized monetization (LN)

- You have web of trust as a potential solution to app safety issues

- You have shared open network effect for the benefit of any new app

None of the existing app platforms offers anything like this.

Nostr as Twitter alternative is fun. Nostr as iOS alternative is crazy fun!

Tell a random app dev that Nostr is a Twitter replacement, and they'll probably yawn. Tell them it's a new app platform, and they'll start paying attention.

We win the devs - Nostr wins. Right?

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nobody 2y ago

Should follow him if you don't, he did the nostr.band

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Sirius 2y ago

I agree. But I think we need a filesystem-like API for writing path-value pairs and listing directories. Something like gundb https://github.com/amark/gun#quickstart

Nostr is not going to work as a universal data layer if every list (directory) update overwrites the previous list and every new application needs to define its own event kinds that relays may need to integrate.

brugeman 2y ago

Well I didn't mean that you should write all internal app state to nostr, just the high level stuff that needs interoperability and discovery. And relays usually support new event kinds out of the box, that is the whole point of them.