Nostr Web Client

Great question!

We run an indexer that gets data and artifacts from various repositories. It can be slow sometimes, but it's improving - in quantity and speed.

All data is written to wss://relay.zap.store and https://cdn.zap.store (a blossom server). At the moment both are read-only for everyone except this pubkey.

The zap.store Android app fetches data from that relay which for now is hardcoded. Why? First reason is security: we do not have all the tools in place yet to let users confidently determine the trust profile of an app, so we're effectively curating. And second is UX: the NIPs for apps and releases are new and in flux, having control over the relay allows us to fine tune without causing many issues.

Once we progress with all that we will let users choose their own app relays. So you are right that it's not fully permissionless today, although you could definitely fork app and relay and run your own. But it will soon be.

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ponymontana💜⚡ 1y ago

Cool project!

With obtanioum the indexer is fully decentralized, it lives in the phone of users, like rss feeds.

So, the real use case for this solution, as I see it, is to offer a nostr-based layer for indexing/distributing (npubs based chain of trust and so on....) but ALSO and more important, to offer a better way to store and trasmit the data itself (the apk in the android case).

Until it remains a layer-over-github it wouldn't solve any problem. Github could be censored and could limit the avain any moment, even when the fetches happens from relays.

A future integration with bittorrent 2.0 to permit to the distributors to be fully uncensorable and indipendent?

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Zapstore 1y ago

Thank you! Indexing Github is just the start. We'll index much more, and users will be able to swap relays - much like it's possible to swap repos in F-Droid.

Blossom and bittorrent 2.0 will be the major distribution methods as zap.store is based on on NIP-94

ponymontana💜⚡ 1y ago

fantastic😍, this is the type of project that make me feel the tech revolution! Count me in for testing and report bugs!😁

Eluc 1y ago

Amazing, thank you so much for both answers, I will continue to test it with that in mind.

My first suggestion, add some apps from home even before searching, list most downloaded by your contacts or just seach by categories. It feels strange to see it empty and sometimes we like to discovrer new apps.

Zapstore 1y ago

We're on it 🫡 Top priority