I think development would explode if there were services in between relays and the end products. So long as we kept the services honest nothing about the protocol would be negatively affected
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You mean existing end product using relays? Or something to connect a relay to an existing product, like a bridge? That could be huge yes.
well even though I haven't open sourced it, for my dev purposes I run a node server that connects to relays and delivers certain data via an https request, since my app isn't a client. it needs to do some crunching and then return a result, so it's more like a DVM if I can ever figure that out
cool! yes im having the same trouble with dvms. this pattern with a node server sounds very good, exactly what i mean by using nostr as an API