I feel like this is a subnote
IMO the grants culture of Nostr enables this
Get paid grant money for technical delivery without needing to focus on what users want to use
Discussion
Yes I suspect you are correct. Sad part is when their grants are over, the thing becomes abandonware and the dev more often than not disappears.
Grant-surfing
When I was much younger I worked on an eco tourism project in Laos. The only westerners in the town were this ecotourism co, and NGOs.
Every year a new NGO would get some funding and turn up to do something, buy a bunch of cars, fund a bunch of office workers, deliver something like lay a road or teach about sanitation or STDs or whatever, then run out of money, pack up and leave.
Every year the ecotourism project made a profit, reinvested in the community, and just kept plugging along as the NGOs came and went.
The founder was very straightforward about it. If you want to add value long term, you must have a profitable business. There is no other way to do it."
Lesson in there.
Good story. Good lesson.
Steady and sustainable is best.
What are you willing to pay for on Nostr? What services and features do you pay for today and which do you wish existed?
My view is that every thing on the internet is better on Nostr, and every internet business model will work just as well, or better with Nostr.
With what I am building with Shosho, building on Nostr has increased dev speed, solved chicken and egg problem, given me a platform-like ecosystem of interoperable and pluggable apps, and also the initial go to market channel, WoM, and early adopter users.
Build any fast-follower of any existing internet company and get all those things free? There's no better place to build IMO.
Thanks! This is all true, but you didn't answer the question, what on Nostr are you willing to depart your hard earned money for?
To give you a favor back, I used ShoSho one time (first time streaming on Nostr) and I would be willing to pay a small zap with satoshis for VOD (video on demand) storage. So depending on how much I pay, it's saved for e.g. 1 hour, 1 day, 1 week, 1 month, 1 year, with ability to extend.
I'm not willing to pay a monthly fee for the app. I am willing to pay some kind of subscription, and donate subscriptions, to streamers, similar to Twitch. I've supported many Twitch streamers before.
Your profile inspired me to add parsing to the bio on nostr:nprofile1qqsdr0fnxvmn8hxyz8cwazfm8zu9yt7qmc38ll69nkvsgn8dnej4sxckxm0xe, so thanks again.
Before:
https://mibo.eu.nostria.app/f003775d154f1a305ea65d06f2c29d1a610f2c6e46221048e7139dc2c2236e85.webp
After:
https://mibo.eu.nostria.app/5db11e49b1ac11cdd75dc3d430236de145eb017234a0d3c6db99689105fef6c6.webp
Great feedback thanks.
I have been working the last two weeks on a server which does DVR for stream recording and VOD for playback 😎
Ok for me so far I have spent money on Nostr for
- testing (paid for initial app users)
- feedback/learning (zaps on asknostr)
- advertising (zappadd)
- social promotion (aqstr)
- goods (buying NIP-99 stuff)
- streaming ("good" and "best" on zapstream)
For Shosho I intend to sell
- e-commerce marketplace (% of sale)
- or perhaps Shopify model ($/mo)
- some premium streaming server ($/use)
Going forward as a business I could probably use and would pay for
- some Slack/Google work alternatives
- some metrics/analytics product