The Alby Team is starting into a 2-day hackathon today.

The goal: Use our existing tools, learn and make them better.

That's on our list of ideas:

1️⃣ Ark for Alby Hub

2️⃣ Spark for Alby Hub

3️⃣ Zap extension for FreshRSS - a self-hostable RSS reader

4️⃣ Capital gains/loss calculator app for Alby Hub

5️⃣ Personal finance dashboard for Alby Hub

6️⃣ Auto-swaps for Alby Hub (LN -> Onchain)

7️⃣ Make NWC compatible with Ark/Spark

8️⃣ Bitcoin price tracker in Alby Go

9️⃣ Nostr contact list in Alby Go

1️⃣0️⃣ N8n Nostr bot

1️⃣1️⃣ Natural language control of Alby Hub

1️⃣2️⃣ Achievements in Alby Hub (streaks, x payments etc)

1️⃣3️⃣ Add your own theme to Alby Hub

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The products and tools we have available:

- Alby Hub self-custodial #bitcoin lightning wallet

- Alby Go mobile app

- Alby Browser Extension

- JS SDK to build nostr:npub19hg5pj5qmd3teumh6ld7drfz49d65sw3n3d5jud8sgz27avkq5dqm7yv9p apps and wallets

- Bitcoin-Connect.com a frontend library for NWC apps

- NWC MCP server to connect any wallet with an LLM

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Vote on the list above or drop us your ideas below 👇

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We just want to use our own self-hosted relay with our self-hosted AlbyHub 🤗

do it, it’s configurable via the env variable.

I’ll take a whack at it! I’m running the start9 variant.

Would love to see a UI variable 🤌

I’ve been hunting for this file, so hard to find 😓

Testing for this note… we made six attempts to⚡zap this note, using your lightning address starting with "michael", over a period of about 3 hours. All six attempts were successful. Please check on your end to be sure you received. Average zap time was 8282ms (8.3 seconds). We consider this zap time slow... generally, zaps should complete in under two seconds. (Other Nostr users might think your zaps are broken, might not zap you again.) If you wanted to speed up your zap confirmations, you could try receiving zaps with a well-connected, cloud-based Lightning node.

6 🥰

Love #5 and #8 from personal interest

Probably should focus on #1 since Ark is exciting 😉

If you're interested in future price forecasting for personal finance e.g. to allow portfolio value estimators ... have a look at https://www.digitalrealestate.org for an example implementation for mixed bitcoin+real estate portfolio value estimation.

-> Maybe something similar could be integrated into Alby for user portfolios? PS no need to share balances, can just API into the price and do the portfolio value estimation locally ...