Olas is halfway there
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All help is welcome, not necessarily from a coding perspective, but much more from a product and GTM perspective, that’d be super useful.
What do we need to do to make nostr:npub1eulxt0p36rpn0gdsr99tn2pcvv8ne4prf0qz3k3s9pcn3qe0htqq36cndk ‘s vision happen?
nostr:npub1r8wdfruydenz84fxfespcswuhcvyatx6umtd5xguexup49u500xskf50hn I know you understand that market better than most here; what do you think of this?
People are already talking about that as the big dream over on TikTok - as in, a web3 version of TikTok that could be (relatively) uncensored. I’ve seen several creators asking AI if it’s possible and how we can accomplish it 😄 I keep dropping comments about Nostr but these folks aren’t devs, they’re communicators like myself.
But what people love about TikTok is its ease of use with green screen, audio sharing, live-streaming, and other content creation features, its storefront mechanism with commission structure for reviewers, and its virality potential (which essentially is driven by its social search engine style algorithm).
It would take a team of geniuses to really recreate it, but it’s not impossible and web3 is what the people I’m hearing from ultimately want, especially creators who want more self-custody of their content and bitcoin payments integration.
Not sure if that was helpful but that’s my 2 cents ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I agree strongly with that last bit. TikTok seems like it’s a short form video app but it is actually an incredibly highly tuned search engine, product placement, and e-commerce platform.
It’s a huge bite…
Spot on.
I met someone that had a small scale ecom biz in the beauty space that never did much before she had some product videos go viral. She didn't get into specific numbers, but she said she made more in a couple months after those than she had in multiple years running the biz.
Knowing that ByteDance takes a large chunk off the top, there has to be plenty of meat on that bone for a competitor.
Super useful; thank you! I’ll have to explore these tools!
What does "web3" mean to you and that crowd?
i am working for a company that is trying to do similar things, or at least, find a ways into making a revenue stream out of using shart contracts, i mean smart contracts, as a public data store for social networks
it is quite hilarious, and the saddest part is they don't realise that these database systems are a regression in terms of performance and cost efficiency and are thus entirely ineligible to be called potential means to protect freedom of speech
nostr, on the other hand, cuts out that whole consensus replication cost and frees the hand of systems architects to come up with efficient ways to both replicate the data and prevent its constraint
they will all fully come over to this side once we have a monetisation mechanism in place, and that's the reason why i rail so much against this anti-auth, anti-private-relay attitude of a lot of the establishment of nostr
Web5 is the real answer
I can’t speak for the crowd but for me, Web3 encompasses the suite of new tech that prioritize decentralized self-custody of data and currency (like Bitcoin), transparency of transactions (like smart contracts), and semantic-search tools (like AI language modelers). The combination of these elements isn’t exactly compatible with the web2 way of doing things, but people are starting to understand why web3 is better than web2 and are building toward it every day.
Web5 is what you want, nostr is web5 tech, start9 is web5 tech. Web3 is a bunch of VCs scamming you.
https://www.coindesk.com/learn/what-is-web5-and-how-is-it-different-from-web3
Weeb3 is just eth tech
btw, since I have you here, I can't get the lightning invoice to trigger on nsec bunker (want to use for Olas rather than pasting nsec)
I shut that down; didn’t realize the part where you could buy one was still out there.
I think custodial bunkers are ultimately evil and very dangerous for nostr; I would recommend running Gossip in bunker mode or if you have an android phone run Amber.
Hopper that helps! Let me know if you need more pointers! 🤙