Nostr sucks because it's engineers building whatever they want: obscure tech that normal people don't care for
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Building clients with empathy toward the average person is very difficult. It’s something we have spent 90% of our meetings talking about this year.
I wouldn’t attribute it to malice or indifference. You have to spend lots of time talking to users and watching how they use the app. It is very time consuming and not trivial to do, especially with a small team
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Always need to bring in some normies to see how they respond to something
Build it and they will come (and stay) they said.
Insane amount of listening, learning, and work involved…
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All my dislikes of #Apple aside , this is what they really nailed ..Jobs was the champ of normies ..
Have you been able to up first week retention?
How's your marketing comms? What message to whom and where?
we have done a bunch of user testing and it seems where most people get frustrated is simply finding people and then finding their community. This is why 99% of people don’t stick around, which is why our focus this year has been mainly onboarding into topics, topic communities, damus nip05, etc
It’s still very much a chicken and egg problem, but if we don’t have community tools and discovery then it will never happen.
I'd say increase certainty. Certainty that relays saw the post, much less relatives and friends. Certainty that shadowcensor doesn't happen. Big picture of network helps. Oh, I'm looking at this cluster of notes over here. It's an objective global agreed view I can depend on, anxiety goodbye! Personally, I would (I think) post things 1/1000 people would enjoy forever, if I'm getting a fair shake. If I can't even be sure my fam can see it when i @ them, I lose interest. Disclaimer, I'm not a good test market like Gary, Indiana.
#BEAWARE
Users don’t know what they don’t know.
New paradigms don’t need users, they need top notch product strategists, designers, managers etc.
Empathy is useful but innovation happens when you do the same thing differently.
When everything is said and done, more is said than done…
You’re on a different nostr than me. The nostr I use is awesome thanks to people like nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s!
this sounds like compliment to nostr devs, I guess it is compliment
Pretty much. When I see people talking about multisig nostr event signing I can only lol.
How do you think the Internet was invented, engineers building obscure tech that normal people don't care for.
Exactly my point. How did the internet become usable to 90% of people?
To put it into perspective, the Internet was conceived in the early 60's, it went live in 1969, it converted to modern Internet protocols in 1983, commercial traffic was permitted on it in 1989, the same year the web was invented. Broadband was born in the late 90's and Google didn't exist until 1998.
Mobile Internet started as a protocol called WAP on dumb phones on 2G networks in 1999. Smart phones came around 2001, the iPhone launched in 2007, Bitcoin launched in 2009. NOSTR launched in 2020.
WE ARE STILL EARLY
Actually, 90% of people are used - and abused - by today's Internet, from the dopamine triggers constant flow to systematic fact-checked fake news and a privacy nightmare that turns "1984" into a bedtime story.
Nostr has a lot to learn from the Internet, to try and not copy/paste what it has become.
Watchya talking about?? I’m just a normal person and I think nostr is awesome thanks to people like nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s who are really smart and build stuff I can just use.