Ah, the article says it almost all goes to Bitcoiny/Twittery stuff.
That makes sense, since I'm hanging out with more backend/other-stuff people who have to work much harder for much longer, before they have anything finished that they could show.
And then nobody cares about what they built because it's too obscure and technical for anyone to get the point, but oh well. π
Well, did they apply? Did they show their work? I worked on my backend project for 7 months full time before I got a grant. Whoever you're talking about should open their code and apply before they burn out. δΉβ ΰΌΌβ β―β βΏβ β―β βΏβ ΰΌ½β γ
You said it. 7 months. We've been working on ours since before Christmas and the code is open and we publish announcements regularly.
Nobody responds, nobody looks, nobody cares. It's simply too low-level and complex to market. We have to finish the entire tech stack and build out the infrastructure, and then use it to build some clicky thing, and then we can ask for money for the clicky thing.
So, whatever. Project survivorship bias is real.
That's strange to think that I haven't really seen you talk about what your project is.. nostr network is very lossy sometimes and also people tell me I'm terrible at marketing, so I will pass that message on like an annoying little π. Whatcha working on?
Here's some feedback if you want...
I read that landing page twice, and clicked on each project, and then started clicking the libraries. I still am not sure what exactly the citadel is about. My best guess is it's a repository of libraries with respective projects, but the projects I looked through were all just empty repos.
And I'm a coder, most people won't click through on any of this.
I would say, you should have a mission statement / goals top center. Links to where the active dev is happening, and links to demos or videos of demos in action. And a latest updates, milestones, or something like this. Who is this being built for? Is it a product for other devs, to use these libs?
The libraries are not in those repos, yes. And we're working on lower-level libraries, so there's no demo possible.
I am working on more project documentation, so that we can at least describe the plans to outsiders.
Was it 7 months before getting a reply?
Hehe, no. When I started building there was no opensats. Only a dream of nostr business, that was based on corn, working for myself and saying fU to the man. I had finally launched it, took a lot longer to build the first parts to where it was working than I thought it would. When I saw opensats start and the first couple of cohorts get in I applied. It seems like they do a review every month or so of the applications.
oh. i guess i got rejected and never notified. i'll reapply.
Ah, that's lame, yeah keep pinging them, they sounded like they got overwhelmed there for a while.. now is probably good timing.
They don't just take every project that applies.
Lmk if either of you would like a proof reader for opensats applications.. I'm a good proof reader/editor π€
