💡 Building apps with Shakespeare…my thought proces.

There’s an app I *could* use as a yoga teacher if I wanted to. It’s free and I also get a discount from my yoga teacher liability insurance. So let’s say it costs me $48/year for argument’s sake. It helps me schedule classes, take payments, etc. Payments are only offered through Stripe (which is every platform, and I hate Stripe with a passion. I did the math on it for my 2024 earnings, that’s why. The more you make, the more it takes. Zaprite is better).

You can see it here. Simple, clean, bare bones. Everything you need, nothing you don’t:

https://app.ubindi.com/Heather.Larson

Let’s say I want to take the Ubindi idea and make Zaprite my payment method so anyone can pay with USD or BTC. (My Nostr yoga classes are free to attend, people zap on Nostr, but let’s say I am trying to onboard the normie yogis to Nostr & Chill).

I used #ShakespeareDIY to make this site:

https://nostral-practice-ztaf.shakespeare.to/

This would allow me to set up a class schedule and ability to pay online, same as Ubindi. Students can zap on Nostr or pay with Zaprite with their choice of USD or BTC.

Now, Ubindi also asks for emails, which can be convenient to get in touch with students in case of a cancelation and for marketing purposes. But in Nostr, no one is giving up a real email address. So this is the only thing missing for now, just some kind of “registration” so I could @ you all if I had to cancel. I do have a newsletter for marketing purposes, which you can opt into, but I admit I haven’t touched it in a few months.

I screwed with this site for a while and the URL is imperfect. I’m ok with this. I personally don’t think URLs matter, so it doesn’t bother me, but someone else may care, in which case buy a domain and do that whole thing. I’d rather refer people to my Nostr and have them see “link in bio” anyway, which I can shorten. No biggie. No one goes to the URL anymore. Search is dead af.

Total Shaksepeare cost to build considering I farted around was $31.01 and I could have been more efficient with that. But it was fun! 🤩

I could use Ubindi alongside my Shakespeare-created app just for experimental purposes. Or I can use this to onboard more yoga folks to the orange & purple world… Just pondering that. 🧡 💜