me? no one locally uses nostr or bitcoin. i did however find a new friend that lives about 45 minutes away who is a bitcoiner and a nostrich through local word of mouth. we've since become friends. he signed up for OPA and found that another OPA users 2 hours away 😆
good luck on your app that should be rebuilt on top of Nostr 😉
Thanks Derek, we're definitely keeping a close tab on Nostr. As far as we can tell there are technological challenges in building a geolocated app with private DMs on Nostr. I've asked nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft to confirm our assumptions.
sorry, if you asked me something I might have missed it; what technical challenges are you hitting?
no worries, if we wanted to build OPA on Nostr, we would need to create a client (relay?) that has 3 main components
1) completely paywalled
2) pull users' device approx geolocation on every app launch (to show nearby users)
3) users can only communicate with each other via private DM (no feed)
Would this be feasible?
Here's a BTCSESSION tutorial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrQIyP45UNs&t=2s&ab_channel=BTCSessions
P.s. we have had many people who told us “I had no idea there were other plebs nearby before using OPA”
