I had not forgotten about this. When I started digging in I realized I didn’t really need to know about what happened with Apple & Damus. I just assumed that zapple was some sort of workaround because of the name.

There is not a create a page button at the bottom of the page in the screen shot currently so I couldn’t go poking at it to see if I understood it better via that route though.

So I started feeding the text into ChatGPT to see if I could quickly get a more simplified and less technical version. This may not be exactly accurate (since I couldn’t go in and attempt to experience the product but it’s a little less … crypto a little more normal:

ZapplePay has just introduced something called AutoZaps, which works kind of like a decentralized version of Patreon. It lets people create their own pages where others can set up recurring payments to support them.

AutoZaps uses a technology called NWC (Nostr Wallet Connect) to talk to wallets like Mutiny and Alby. These wallets have features that make it easy to approve payments automatically when connected to a specific NWC code.

They've also used NWC technology to build Mutiny+, which is a way to handle payments with Bitcoin in a more user-friendly manner.