Nostr Web Client

Do you not think that 1,000 subscribers at $5/month is very possible for a client app - as an example?

That certainly should cover server costs, and be at least a supplementary income.

If you 10X that to 10,000 subscribers, that’s 50,000/month. I can’t see how at least some Nostr services can’t achieve that.

Keep in mind the $5 is just an average price/user. Maybe premium $15/month users make up 50% of revenue. Business may pay even more.

For sure, if you have many full time staff, pay for OS contributions yourself (instead of community fund), and don’t grow as your subscriptions and Nostr community grows, you’ll have a hard time.

As a side note, if Nostr has let’s say 10 great client apps for social. If each app has an even share, that’s only 100,000 total paying customers for the $50,000/month per client app revenue. If Nostr can’t attract let’s say 10% paying customers with 1 million total users - it will stay niche and likely die off slowly or centralise anyway.

Unless I’m tired and my numbers are bogus.. seems achievable within next two 10X growth cycles to 100X from today. I’ve already been through four Nostr 10X growth cycles.

HoloKat 2y ago

Need to grow. Not in current state. Assuming a 1% conversion, we need a 100x from here to pay 3 clients 10k/mo at $3 per user - ignoring churn.

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Blake 2y ago

Not in current state meaning todays network size, or meaning we’re doing something wrong or not doing something we should be?

I’m expecting maybe the next six months to be a pain period for devs - around their time and expenses. Hopefully by six months we will have easier payments, subscriptions, toward a 10X user base, more innovation and reasons to join Nostr - not just social.

We haven’t even tested the market yet with subscriptions.. only very early days and initial learning period.

HoloKat 2y ago

Meaning not with current active user base.

I think we need a combo of subscriptions, random zaps, marketplace fees (sell stuff), and at least a 10x i users but hopefully 100x.

Need to get influencers in here and start building out the non-social-first clients - music, marketplace, zap to show etc.

pam 2y ago

I completely agree. Everytime I see a new hug from Jack on my newsfeed, I’m automatically expecting to see a new user and this makes me happy. Is there a way to understand what interest the new users and perhaps build more tools around it ?