Nostr Web Client

What an awesome and inspiring story! 👏🏻👏🏻 Thank you for sharing this and I hope that your story inspires a ton of other builders/investors to join you on this journey or to use the products that you will create. I am yet to check out the talk and the site, so will start there for now before i can even think about how I can be a blessing to you. For now I have reshared this post and I hope it gets a ton more eyeballs. Least I can do at the moment. Will come back with additional comments or questions after checking out your talk and material. Keep up the good work bro 🤝👏🏻💯🫡

Cubby 1mo ago

Wait on the talk. The first video has poor audio so I am uploading a second with significantly better audio. Should be live maybe within an hour! Out of my control, mostly.

The easiest thing is just use my products (free for now) and talk about them. I am working on a few things simultaneously, and marketing and customer growth hasn’t been a focus until tonight. First night ever trying to sell my stuff in earnest and get users.

The absolute most helpful thing to me (aside from large checks with no strings attached 😜) is I need super fans. People who know others in my target audience who might believe in the ideas, don’t mind some bugs (Nostr is fertile ground lol) as long as they value the mission.

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Kudzai Kutukwa 1mo ago

Ok will wait on the talk and check it out once it’s ready. As someone who has been a founder before, I totally understand where you are in your journey and where I can I will help with spreading the word whether through posts or even an article or two, but I can only do that after testing out the product or if I genuinely fall in love with the mission but preferably both. So far I like what I am hearing.

Below is a sample I wrote a few years back about Ark, which I found to be quite interesting to me. I’m not guaranteeing thousands of eyeballs or followers but I’m just saying I try my best to promote stuff I like. Looking forward to playing with your stuff as is 🫡

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/how-ark-plans-to-scale-private-bitcoin-payments

Cubby 1mo ago

Love it! I’m happy to sync up and show you some cool stuff I’m working on or features that are kinda buried too. It’s definitely a work in progress, and it is such a bummer that the demos are hard to see due to a white balance issue with the camera. This is what I get for departing from dark mode for my corporate site and the Hash app.

Cubby 1mo ago

Great article. I looked into ARK when I was at Custodia too along with a lot of other early stage solutions, trying to find a way to introduce privacy into the banking system for discretionary spend. Basically impossible since regulators were freaked out about bitcoin until a few months ago, but worthy nonetheless.

The monetization side of my stuff could benefit from ARK but I haven’t heard too much about it recently.

I really liked how your article stays journalistic and lets the ideas breathe and speak of their own merit. Jealous of your ability to convey complex things in such a clear manner!

Kudzai Kutukwa 1mo ago

Thanks for the compliment brother 🤝 I do try to simplify the complex since the average reader is not as technically savvy as you are, but at the end of the day they need to understand it well enough to use it. I am sure I can help with that as well when it comes to your project, to the extent that you need that of course 😁 The irony of it all is i also wish I could code just as easily as I write lol!

Ark are making some good progress and I think they have had some product releases which they successfully tested if memory serves me right. Just that a lot is happening in this space and on multiple fronts so it’s easy to miss a few things here and there. You were at Custodia? The Caitlin Long bank I presume or another Custodia?

Cubby 1mo ago

My ecosystem along with some partner tooling makes it as easy to code as it is to write. The simplest way to understand it is “vibe coding with strict governance.” My goal is to empower non-technical patriots to “learn to code and build their own platform.” Or, that’s really the goal of Pipes. The ecosystem I’m working on is large, but Pipes is the way everything talks to each other. It’s extremely exciting software and beyond what I’ve already said, I can’t say more publicly. I’m working toward a patent so I can basically enforce it against big tech, while offering permissive licensing to indie devs (MIT maybe, haven’t worried about it since my heart is pure and goal is clear).

Yeah, I was the design lead there for three years, almost. Mostly UX and UI with some lightweight systems architecture and R&D. I did their brand, designed and helped architect bitcoin custody, fiat banking, internal tooling, and other stuff I can’t talk about due to NDAs. Suffice it to say that anything you’ve ever seen or heard about from them? I designed it and was one of 3-7 people who architected it from concept to release.

Kudzai Kutukwa 1mo ago

Now that’s interesting! The pipes stuff I mean and makes absolute sense from the little you have shared thus far. I love how you have weaponised “learn to code” against the ghouls who used it more as an insult than anything. That’s the way to go, to fight back by literally “building back better” 😂 Hats off to you for that. Definitely would love to hear more and will dm to setup a call later this week or whenever it’s convenient for both of us.

From the bit I saw about Custodia, you definitely did great work there 🤝🫡 I am sure you will continue to do so even with this project.

Cubby 1mo ago

I’m looking forward to it.

Short term I may wind up going the consulting/freelance route, so if you know anybody who wants help from somebody like me, holler.