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Ok hear me out. What if we built some kind of paywall into a package manager like npm where an app that’s installing a package would get a lightning invoice as part of the ‘npm install’ flow. The app’s CI tool could could connect to their lightning node and pay the invoice programmatically. I’m thinking very small amounts per install or maybe even a one time fee. Relying on opt-in tips like most devs do now will never work.
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Josua Schmid 1y ago

Do you know the once.com model? You could maybe build the business model like this. Starting with now closed-source libraries to provide the source code instead of the DLL in the windows ecosystem. Or does anyone compete Steam with Bitcoin?

Otherwise I think developers rather want to pay for infrastructure than for code. So maybe they would rather pay two sats per downloaded package at a flat rate to help you finance the package manager CDN.

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