Nostr Web Client

🚀 Damus Notedeck Beta Release 🚀

Today we're launching the beta version of our multiplatform nostr browser! Think google chrome but for nostr apps. The beta is our big first step toward this vision.

Included in the beta is the Dave, the nostr AI assistant (its grok for nostr). Dave is a new notedeck browser app that can search and summarize notes from the network. For a full breakdown of everything new, check out our beta launch video 👀

https://cdn.jb55.com/hls/notedeck-beta-release/master.m3u8

New in Notedeck Beta:

- Dave nostr ai assistant app

- GIFs!

- Fulltext note search

- Add full screen images, add zoom & pan

- Zaps! NWC/ Wallet ui

- Introduce last note per pubkey feed (experimental)

- Allow multiple media uploads per selection

- Major Android improvements (still wip)

- Added notedeck app sidebar

- User Tagging

- Note truncation

- Local network note broadcast, broadcast notes to other notedeck notes while you're offline

- Mute list support (reading)

- Relay list support

- Ctrl-enter to send notes

- Added relay indexing (relay columns soon)

- Click hashtags to open hashtag timeline

If you're a purple subscriber, make sure to *login* and download the beta here: https://damus.io/notedeck/install/ . if you're not logged in you will only see the Alpha release.

If you're not subscribed, you can get a subscription here: https://damus.io/purple/checkout/

Also make sure to check out the notedeck usability signal group to give feedback! https://signal.group/#CjQKINZJS0LBUTsTQbRW-nWUd6Dhkc6ojcBtyMrZcgThaRzEEhAstno8KLqs8E8J0qajLwir

Enjoy!

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YawningGoat 8mo ago

Onboarding idea: Dave asks you to introduce yourself. You type in hobbies, interests, location (if you want) and Dave suggests possible follow packs.

jb55 8mo ago

would be cool

frphank 8mo ago

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0xtr 8mo ago

Oh man, Dave looks like a fun tool!

jb55 8mo ago

yeah its pretty neat

Zen<3lofi 8mo ago

this is only for paid subscribers?

jb55 8mo ago

Paid subs get early access to all of our releases. We usually do the public release 2-3 weeks after

Zen<3lofi 8mo ago

ohh that’s a good paid/free structure. 😁

I was wondering if there’ll be a way to search your own posts … like by year & month.

👇🏾This one sounds like it.

- Fulltext note search

jb55 8mo ago

yeah advanced search will come!

Zen<3lofi 8mo ago

oh ok yay. I was remembering how blogspot and wordpress has that. *mental note* it will be called ‘advanced search’

jack 8mo ago

cool!

lemon 8mo ago

How did you add Gifs? Tenor?

jb55 8mo ago

we just added support for rendering gifs

charliesurf 8mo ago

well done! not a subscriber myself but hopefully will use it one day in the future if nostr is still around

Joshua Holland 8mo ago

So cool. What model is Dave and where is he hosted? Is communication encrypted?

jb55 8mo ago

the model is hardcoded to openai + 4o during the trial. its encrypted and users are anonymized (openai has no insight into who is running the queries)

I am working on a "provider" ui that will allow you to select any backend you want. I've tested with openrouter, and even ollama for completely private local queries.

Laan Tungir 8mo ago

Awesome. Excited to try it.

frankypoop 8mo ago

this is amazing!

Llyr Noise 8mo ago

hmm, probably it's not exactly what it is supposed to be.

machine: windows server 2019.

jb55 8mo ago

hmmm weird... first time I've seen that

stian 8mo ago

Really cool stuff - looks solid! On the nostr apps, I’m currently working on a web app that uses nostr for login and interactivity (essentially a listing of software agents where users can vote, submit, discuss clients and implementations etc) - is that something you would consider an “app” that could be found and loaded from within notedeck, or are all apps essentially built _for_ notedeck? Right now I depend on the user having a plugin like Alby or nos2x to log in, seems more easy to do if it’s found from within something like notedeck!

jb55 8mo ago

I'm building a completely different dev ecosystem outside of the web, specifically designed for nostr apps. There is no web technology in this.

stian 8mo ago

Interesting! Are the apps (or app configs) hosted on nostr relays? Curious how this works, will follow closely! 👏

jb55 8mo ago

Right now the apps are static because it’s not sandboxed environment.

It’s more like a rust devkit for building nostr apps atm. Eventually there will be a dynamic, sandboxed wasm env if i get that far.

stian 8mo ago

Big vision, love it. Will follow you for updates. Best of luck!

Ralphie 8mo ago

So freaking amazing what you guys are building, I love the AI assistant making its entry to Nostr with contextual knowledge.

Will, If you’re looking for devs to help you out on more features or bugfixing, reach out to nostr:npub1p6xyr6u5vet33r4x724vxmp9uwfllax5zjdgxeujyrtxt90lp74qvah0rm. A young talented belgian guy who was involved in European Bitcoiners and many other bitcoin/nostr related projects and experiments.

Then, my observation from a UX point of view. If we want to onboard the masses to NOSTR (read, less tech oriented audiences) we should consider using conversational design best practices.

Which focuses more on onboarding, simplicity, step-by-step story driven interfaces, rather than overwhelming people with features, navigation and other “cool” stuff devs may use but most people will not.

The challenge is to make NOSTR apps frictionless, easy and engaging. Don’t be boring. My 2 sats. I can show you some examples if you like, feel free to reach out to me.

jb55 8mo ago

yeah my goal with the multi-app thing is not to have too many things crammed into a single app.