Incredible work, very smooth experience. I think it'll still be hard to recommend that people download an unrelated social media app in order to sign in to the one they actually want to use, but for people who already use primal this is great.
Big news Nostr fam: the Primal Remote Signer is here! 🫡
We just released Primal 2.6, which includes a NIP-46 remote signer built into our iOS and Android apps. Now you can use your Primal mobile app to login to any Nostr app that supports the remote login (a.k.a. nsec bunker) standard. IMHO this is the easiest and most secure way to login to Nostr web apps.
Check out Paul’s overview video below. We had to do some crazy stuff to make this work on iOS. Overall this was way harder to build than we anticipated. Try it and let us now how it hits!
https://blossom.primal.net/bff3c129e4dbd895b2373b51cf83ea6545f2fedf285cc8371e5e2f3ccad35718.mp4
Discussion
I have a not well thought out idea that there needs to be a Zapstore-like mobile app where it’s your one-stop shop for onboarding to Nostr, secure key storage and profile management, signer, and Nostr App Store. It would be an entry point to all things Nostr but you would need to download micro apps through the app store to access specific functionality.
That’s what will keep away the majority of people not to use nostr because it’s “overcomplicated” and you have to have tons of apps on your phone
To be fair: a signer app isn't mandatory for new users nor for people just trying out different apps around NOSTR.
People use it when they have different tools that they enjoy and want to reuse their account on it.
In fact would argue that NOSTR apps tend to be easiest ones to start using. Identifies are generated immediately and starts using the app right away.