Ok. Been meaning to publish this for a little while now.
I think reviews are an extremely underrated / under explored design space for application that want to leverage Nostr (in particular, the social graph).
In this essay, the first of a series I want to publish on nostr:npub1w0rthyjyp2f5gful0gm2500pwyxfrx93a85289xdz0sd6hyef33sh2cu4x, I break down:
- how reviews drive commerce
- despite their being broken / fake / easily gamed
- how the internet originally won
- what’s needed to make the internet functional again (upgraded stack)
- how this upgraded stack makes a whole new design spaces possible
- how ONE of the many things we’ll fix is reviews
- how we’re going about it with a project we’re calling Satlantis
nostr:npub18lzls4f6h46n43revlzvg6x06z8geww7uudhncfdttdtypduqnfsagugm3 - as promised. Put it up on highlighter.
nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m - this is what I was alluding to last week. That being said, I want to dig deeper on your particular comment, and I’ll do that in the next essay.
nostr:npub1sfhflz2msx45rfzjyf5tyj0x35pv4qtq3hh4v2jf8nhrtl79cavsl2ymqt - Thankyou for your early feedback 🙏🏽
Great essay! Nostr is definitely the way to go for a reviews site. Probably starting with Bitcoin adjacent reviews.
I've got a piece coming soon that considers some other ways Nostr identity/WoT might be useful. It feels like these use cases are about to explode...
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Are you working on WoT? I spent some time working on a trust system for #urbit but I want to build it on Nostr. I have many questions and even more designs and ideas
Amazing! I used to use Urbit. Love the aesthetic, but it's way too complex (and suffers from all the pure p2p problems) to gain adoption anytime soon imo. I'm all in on Nostr. What are you experimenting with?
Broadly: https://vaporware.network - we're bringing to market a purely functional Solid State Interpreter (not unlike urbit) VM that employs orthogonal persistence and public key cryptography identity. On top of this stack we are developing a peer-to-peer open source software market (or rather, market of markets, or darknet of markets, if you prefer).
One of the areas we're exploring right now is Nostr integration, starting probably with trivial-to-run, zero-maintenance personal relays. Our stack gets large file hosting for free out of the box, so each user would act as their own sovereign media host (for Nostr notes - or anything else). You'd also be able to trivially serve yourself your own Nostr client UI (a simple method reduce reliance on centralizing - or spying - clients).
Personally though, and more directly to the point at hand: I'm extremely interested in subjective, contextual, non-global, transitive trust and reputation systems. My previous company was working on a prototype of this on urbit, but the concept is even more well-suited for Nostr.
If you'd like to learn more about the urbit version, here was an overview of that project (the general idea is applicable here too): https://gist.github.com/vcavallo/e008ed60968e9b5c08a9650c712f63bd
I'm very happy to discuss either of these with you here or in DMs!
For us the Bitcoin-adjacent will the burgeoning circular economies around the world. There is a strong angle here and building a kind of hub that people can visit that allows them to find out what’s good / useful / compelling in a city or destination is valuable in and of itself. Nostr makes that even more useful
