Nostr Web Client

A great business model for Nostr would be to sell boxes. You just plug it into your wall, you get a full featured blossom server and nostr relay.

You access a UI on your local network and manage your photo library, music, videos. Some of them are private some are publicly available, some are restricted to a group of npubs, hell some are behind a paywall !

You can also navigate the nostrverse, have private DMs and so on, via your favourite Nostr client, or one that comes with the box.

You can expose your blossom and relay via your own domain or a subdomain from the company selling the box.

Everyone has its own relay running and nostr becomes your cloud and your digital identity.

I'm sure this would sell like hot cakes, call it lifebox or smth. Any content creator would love having their digital identity in their home. It's a strong signal for censorship resistence and taking full control of your digital content and identity.

Having your own relay also fix the lack of privacy for NIP-04 DMs, if read access for kind 4 events are restricted to you.

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Sync 5mo ago

Basically like a start 9 ?

So Tachi 5mo ago

Or an umbrel yes.

Could probably be an umbrel app too.

But having it even more specialized, and with no other action required than just plug and play.

Offchain Luxembourg is onboarding business, mostly bars and restaurants to Bitcoin. Just giving them a box and being fully onboarded to Bitcoin and Nostr would be a great selling point.

You just simplify your selling speach even further. Just plug the thing, go to lifebox.local, and manage your card if you are a restaurant, your video content if you are a youtuber. Set a domain or subdomain for you content and that's it.

Exposing your app to the outside world on start9 and Umbrel requires you to know a thing or two. Here you would just need to tell your name and here you go, like a myspace, but in your home.

So Tachi 5mo ago

explaining Nostr with a box in your hands just illustrate what the thing is much better. Instead of being locked to a third party website, hold your data here in your restaurant.

Everyone will see and access it on Nostr, but you provide the data. There is no middle man.