Well that's one way to guarantee a 100% Nostr abandon rate. 🤦
Say hello to Nstart, Nostr's onbarding tool!
Nstart aims to guide new users to Nostr offering a easy and no-nonsense onboarding wizard, with useful hints about the protocol and some really exclusive features:
- Easy local backup of your nsec or ncryptsec
- Email yourself your ncryptsec, as additional backup location
- Create a multi-signer bunker URL for Nostr Connect (more info below)
- Auto follow the contacts list of some old and trusted Nostr users
- Customize of contact suggestions, useful for onboarding friends & family
Try Nstart live at https://start.njump.me or watch the video below to understand how it works.
A note about the multi-signer bunker. This is really cool stuff made by nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6, that uses FROST to split your nsec in 3 (or more) and distribute each shard to an independent trusted remote signer. This will give you a bunker code that you can use to log in to many web, mobile and desktop apps without exposing your nsec. If you ever lose your bunker code, if the signers vanish from Earth, and it stops working, or if it gets stolen by a malware virus, you can use your nsec to create a new one and invalidate the old one.
More info and source code: https://github.com/dtonon/nstart
Enjoy it and send back any feedback!
https://chronicle.dtonon.com/77b9a397cbbcd63f3bfc78ff2b2c0607e4ffa698a1fad33ab4736593c8ad4f90.mp4
Discussion
What
You just made onboarding 2 minutes and confusing AF.
Onboarding should be 1 second. Easy enough for a 4yr old to understand without any explainer. Learn via use. Not via reading.
It's not just an onboarding, it's also a learning process. Not everything can be *safely* acquired by direct experience, otherwise books would not exist. Maybe in 5 years when Nostr will be mainstream and many details will be known to the general public, we could offert a one click onboarding.
Feel free to point out the confusing parts, currently you are the only one that is experiencing this.
I'm working on a solution. Slowly.