Nostr Web Client

one of the most positive influences on me in recent months has been when nostr:npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z responded to criticism of his hilariously under-designed Amethyst logo by updating it to an even more janky, under-designed logo 😅

having worked at digital design agencies for most of my career i've always found it challenging to break out of the "logo-fiddling" stage of projects and just get to making something that works and delivers results

the emphasis on shipping is an underappreciated virtue of the developer community, and as a non-dev i'm trying to become better about it

i know too many people who "start companies" but get their logo, llc, website, bank account, and business cards set up before finding a single user or paying customer

marketing is valuable and has its place, but also maybe just build the product and keep improving it first

forget about the logo ffs

Vitor Pamplona 2y ago

A perfect logo still doesn't deliver any value to users. Marketing is a revenue multiplier, not a value multiplier. Design can increase value (e.g. UX/UI) but branding is all about revenue, not value. And, in open source, revenue is zero. Anything multiplied by zero is still zero. So, any strategy on the good use of capital (time and resources) would point to investments in the product not in marketing. The entrepreneurs you are seeing are just terrible capital allocators.

PS: we also don't have a website yet. :)

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tanel 2y ago

Damn, wish I could see the post this reply meant for 💜

Really interesting conversation

taette 📚🧽 2y ago

Hope you can read it completely 🤫

tanel 2y ago

Thank you so much brother 💜

Vitor Pamplona 2y ago

Reminds me that I need to implement a rebroadcast of the base event when the user replies to it.

tanel 2y ago

That would be amazing 💜 Same for quoted posts please 👏

mark 2y ago

💜💜💜

mike 2y ago

I do really understand this, but there is enough talent here to make things work on all levels. If we only put as much effort in to offering dev supporting graphics as people seem to be happy to spend making memes some amazing things would happen… just a thought!