Nostr Web Client

Stuart Bowman 2y ago

After the past few weeks of building it's time to push this prototype out and get some feedback from users —

Announcing Satellite CDN: Scalable media hosting for the nostr ecosystem!

https://satellite.earth/cdn

- Upload video and other large files, up to 5 GB each

- Simple flat-rate pricing, buy storage with sats

- Fast, free and unlimited data transfer

- Integrated NIP-94 censorship resistance

- Developer-friendly API

I feel like a "native" nostr solution for hosting and streaming large videos could really help with adoption and I'm curious about how Satellite can support specific use cases.

API docs coming soon.

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QW 2y ago

Very nice! 🫡

Stuart Bowman 2y ago

Thanks for the zaps everyone! But please use save your sats and use them to buy storage! :D

Account deleted 2y ago

Trying to test it. Tx fails when I try to pay the invoice. Zeus gives me an inbound capacity error.

By curiosity, where is the media stored? Am I indirectly funding Amazon? 🤣

Stuart Bowman 2y ago

That's odd — according to my database your payment succeeded.

Media is stored on Cloudflare R2.

Account deleted 2y ago

Weird indeed. I see them in the activity now. 🤷‍♂️

I’m in now. Let’s test a longish video

https://cdn.satellite.earth/8eed60ecf209d3ecb0806c677b90090d914b8d5c2375c7447d1f2ac6cb26d5c8.mp4

Account deleted 2y ago

Ok, can finally see this note in Satellite. Video took a loooong time to load.

Bullet fast upload, slooow download.

Stuart Bowman 2y ago

There are some weird intermittent connectivity issues on iOS mobile that I've been trying to isolate for weeks

Account deleted 2y ago

Upload was fast. I like the interface so far, however I have no idea what my storage cap is, only what I have used.

Account deleted 2y ago

Folders would be nice.

Stuart Bowman 2y ago

Oh damn good idea. Noted.

Stuart Bowman 2y ago

There is no storage cap! There is only "time remaining". You pay for storage in terms of "GB Months". So, for example, if you buy 1 GB Month and you upload 1 GB, your time will run out after a month. If you upload half a gig, your time will last for 2 months. If you upload 100MB (1/10 GB) then you time will last for 10 months. You can top up your storage at any time (or delete stuff to make it last longer!)

Account deleted 2y ago

Ok, got it. Interesting model!

I am trying to see the notes from my profile from within Satellite and it is really taking a loooong time to fetch my notes. (Safari, iOS)

Bill Monroe 2y ago

Very cool

Dawn 2y ago

So, is this going to remind me when I need to renew or do I need to keep track of that myself?

Stuart Bowman 2y ago

It will automatically send you a message when you have less than 10 days remaining so you can top it up (if you want to) otherwise you can let it expire and after an additional 10 day grace period the storage space gets recycled.

Dawn 2y ago

Awesome, thanks!

JimD 2y ago

This would be a perfect use-case for BOLT12 (https://bolt12.org/)

TheGrinder 2y ago

This is looking good, signed up!

I see you're also working on relay management and users can view their dm's on the site. that's very neat.

Stuart Bowman 2y ago

Cool :) Yeah Satellite is actually a whole client! The CDN is a microapp feature

TheGrinder 2y ago

I like it! thank you!

NOCNOCJODE 2y ago

read could be improved - I’d simply up the words a bit - keeping them really clesr -

hex17or 2y ago

Are my uploads private to my ID unless I share them or are they public, like nostr.build ?

Stuart Bowman 2y ago

Correct. The link file is the SHA256 hash + extension, just like nostr.build. There's no public "list" function, so unless someone already knows the hash, it's private unless you share the link.

hex17or 2y ago

Nice, just signed up! https://cdn.satellite.earth/ffc347677f6af81d6d7514bf5799c09880f6af9e8285251b959ded9611928b04.mp4

Relic 2y ago

This is really cool!

Stuart Bowman 2y ago

Thanks! I hope that being able to upload large videos will unblock some use cases for nostr

LaCosaNostr 2y ago

Only downside is Cloudflare. Interface look nice.

Stuart Bowman 2y ago

There’s no good solution when it comes to centralized providers. Fortunately NIP-94 + BitTorrent mitigates this issue, and in fact my next step with this project is to implement a “fallback to webtorrent” capability when viewing videos on Satellite (the current implementation “torrentifys” every file that’s uploaded).

Cloudflare R2 is actually great from an economic standpoint because they don’t charge for data transfer - only storage (unlike S3). That’s what’s makes it possible to have flat rate per-GB-stored-per-month pricing at all. It could never work if a person uploads a video that goes viral and now they have a 10,000 dollar hosting bill :D

Steven Day 2y ago

Very cool and will be a positive for the space.

Any chance of using NIP07 or lightning Auth rather then entering a secret key?

I’ll generate a new one and I just don’t like the risk of putting in my Nostr nsec in there for authentication.

I am doing this from mobile maybe it’s different on desktop?

Stuart Bowman 2y ago

NIP-07 should work on mobile!

Steven Day 2y ago

Hmm I’m using Orion browser with Alby extension and not seeing anything.

I’ll play around a little more with it.

Appreciate the reply!

Stuart Bowman 2y ago

I’ve only tested mobile NIP-07 with nostore - I’ll see if I can replicate with Orion/Alby

Moritz 2y ago

Orion recently stopped working with Alby. We are looking into it.

Seth 2y ago

Nice feature! Is this a reoccurring monthly fee for storage used?

Stuart Bowman 2y ago

It’s priced at the BTC equivalent (live exchange rate at time of payment) of $0.05 USD per GB per month. So it costs 5 cents to store 1 GB for 1 month. Or 60 cents to store 1 GB for one year.

It’s like one of those pay as you go phones - there’s no automatically recurring charges. You just top it up with sats whenever you need to keep your balance positive. And you only get charged for whatever is currently hosted, so if you delete stuff that you don’t need to be hosted anymore that will extend your credit. Data transfer is free.

The reason it works like this is because it made the most sense to replicate the pricing structure of the underlying object storage (Cloudflare R2)

Seth 2y ago

This is a really nice feature giving the user control of their media. I will continue to use 💯. Would be nice to integrate into Damus as a default selection for uploads, if this is even possible #[3] 🤔

Stuart Bowman 2y ago

If this were a default selection it would, for the sake of UX, need to come with some way of handling the fact that this is a paid service.

Also clients would need to handle signing an NIP-42 auth event because that's how Satellite authenticates each uploads (that's a big difference from nostr.build)

Otherwise it should be no problem to integrate with other clients. The server handles all the necessary NIP-94 hashing and returns those params to the client (sha256 hash, infohash, etc) which the client can *optionally* verify and sign.

Working right now to get the API docs ready.

Seth 2y ago

Opportunity and evolution. Love it! Exciting stuff! 🤙

nobody 2y ago

I’ve been looking at R2. I’ll be a customer starting tomorrow.

Quentin 2y ago

Interesting 🙂

graben 2y ago

Exciting news 👀🔥

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nobody 2y ago

Been using it off and on today, and it’s nice.

I’d like to be able to upload folders and organize into them at some point, but hey, it’s a beta ❤️

Gustavo 2y ago

Amazing to see Nostr's infrastructure rapidly evolving, one zap at a time.