Maybe not in their day job. I mean in their potential nostr side gig. I’m thinking that they probably like sats since they’re on nostr
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I meant, does OpenSats pay in sats? Have they said that?
I have no idea. All the memberships we pay for nostr services are in sats though
According to their website yes
Hey, that's cool. Always assumed they converted everything to fiat, for accounting purposes.
One issue nobody ever talks about is about "how" a dev entered Nostr. The ones that came here lurking, just to learn to code, or who joined at the very beginning (before you could actually use it to post your opinions) are personal and political blank slates.
If they apply for a grant only their project application is under review, not their entire persona.
The most-experienced devs are often the strongest personas, with longest and most tumultuous histories on here. We can't go out and re-enter and play it off and be like, Yo, fellow coders, I'm just here to learn javascript. 😂
Asking for money from people we've been flirting with, fighting with, or who muted us cuz they think we're totally regarded. LOL Not gonna happen.
This is funny 😂😂
But like you said, the most experienced devs. I mean statistically there should be many less experienced ones that could help the project move along no?
Sure. I guess. Depends upon what they are supposed to build.
Senior devs would be building something different, but they're probably best off building in a separate group with independent financing, so that they don't feel like like have to shut up and play nice with others.
Do you know if bounties are still a thing or if it works well? I saw a Semisol note a few months back where he seemed disillusioned by that system
Our project started off chasing a bounty and gave up after a couple of weeks because it was a circus, and now we just do whatever.
That doesn’t sound great
We have had to keep reorganizing and changing direction, which has really slowed us down and been demoralizing. Feels like we're constantly trying to outmaneuver a horde of development locusts, at the same time as lots of important work isn't getting done on their own projects.
Are you working on a client?
You don't know what our project is?
I saw the website but not sure what’s it about 😅
Maybe it’s a secret and that’s fine too
It's complicated. 😂
It'll be cool, once it's done.
If you don't want to work for OpenSats, you have to do something really complex, wide, and deep, so that they can't just hire 15 scriptkiddies and overrun the space you're in with free shit. It has to be something so big and so hard-core, that they can't even understand WTF you're doing.
You have to think very strategically because they can just drown you, as they have millions of dollars in funds. I call them Nostrsoft. 😅
The upside is, something like that is something that you really can charge money for and you don't have to worry about someone copying it because it's something that generates a heck of a lot of maintenance and support work, rather than being something small and snazzy someone can just fork.
100%
Scriptkiddies 😂😂
I might have to meme some of this
The mindset I've had to adopt is just to keep my head down and work on the project. The winds of public opinion/popular demand shift on a weekly or even daily basis, and there's no way we can keep up with that. One day folks want Nostr Git, the next it's discovery algorithms, and the next it's walled gardens and web of trust stuff. We've got ideas for all of those things, but very limited time, so it's always a "we'll get to that...eventually."
It's fun, though. I wouldn't be working on Nostr stuff if I didn't enjoy it.