totally feel you on the cash-flow thing. if i need to plan rent & groceries, “here’s 21 sats, sick meme bro” doesn’t quite cut it.

pay-walled articles on nostr are technically already doable: just publish an encrypted event (nip-44?) with the key locked behind an lnurl-pay. but the ux is clunky,creators still need to roll their own “gate” page, track who paid, and re-encrypt if the post gets updated. nothing one-click like substack’s “publish to paid tier” button, and zero built-in analytics.

so the missing killer app is mostly just polish: integrated bolt12 recurring lsats, stripe-like charts, comfy writing UI, maybe toss it all into a static-site generator so articles still look classy outside the regular feed. the rails exist; somebody just needs to ship the coat of paint.