Nostr Web Client

Was I wrong?

I always assumed that specialty clients should be able to easily outperform Amethyst on the quality of the features related to their specialty. Users would gradually move away from Amethyst as more and more specialty clients move forward. This culminates with a slow death of Amethyst, but towards a more exciting and decentralized future for Nostr. I have accepted this fate since the early days of the super app project.

This assumption was based on the fact that our development team would simply not have the resources to dedicate the same level of attention and support to every single specialty within Amethyst.

It has been one year and I am sad to report that I have been proven wrong over and over again.

For some reason, developing specialty clients is harder than developing the same features inside of Amethyst.

And that is a loss for decentralization.

Five 1y ago

Also, often times I found myself debugging NDK and it took a lot of time because I did not write it.

You and other devs who wrote the libs and sdk-s have had the advantage of using your own stuff much more confidently and whenever there's a subtle bug you can just quickly fix.

This advantage is diminishing as nostr matures.

One other thing: Specialty clients get less attention because media is after Twitter vs Bluesky vs Nostr for now. This will also change rapidly soon.

Once there's more attention on other apps, there will be more feedback and so better apps.

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Discussion

Vitor Pamplona 1y ago

Yeah, libs can be helpful but they also get in the way all the time.

Laeserin 1y ago

Yeah, we've been using other people's SDKs and you sometimes get stuck. That's why we want our own.

Also just needed something more desktop-native.