Hllo,

I like nostr and wonder why its not been vibed into existence yet.

Identity, database and payments all ready to go is killer. Odell touched on this recently on WBD.

So recently I tried to create nostr airbnb after struggling to find a sublet.. Theres so many scam and shitty websites trying to gain network effect. So I thought I might try to leverage nostrs interop network effect.

Heres that attempt:

Restr - nostr-stay.replit.app ( work in progress - open source soon - follow along)

This process got me thinking more about Identification. To be honest, I'm not sure nostr can really become what we need it to be without some layer of identity verification. At some point you want to get passed the fact that anyone can make infinite accounts. To build a business on top of this most will need to work with real humans and easily filter the bot problem.

Ive got a fairly out there location based solution that may just be dumb enough to work. (not a cryptogropher)

Anyway just wanted to say hi and see if this reaches anyone. Ill post more info on these two ideas as I go.

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Looking forward to hearing more about your ideas!

Welcome to Planet Purple 💜

Thanks, So many homesteaders here! Very cool

Hi great idea love that!

may be you want to touch base with the guy who is behind the airbtc thing? Airbtc.online

Ohh nice - thanks for sharing the link! seems theyre just going with the traditional identity rails and listing bitcoin accepting properties. I worry this would centralize and theyll end up just building a moat? and at the end of the day youre just competing with Airbnb. Im hoping to try to rethink this a little using nostr

I've just enjoyed a brief browse of your web app; it looks real nice so far.🙏🏻💖👍😁

It seems to me that for this (and similar "public trust" enterprises) to work well, nostr may need some more tools...

Better reputation verification that accumulates more aggregate transaction satisfaction history from BOTH sides of a transaction...

Some way to very that an exchange and evaluation between two nostr IDs really occurred (so identity trashing vendettas don't occur); e.g. "So and so stayed at our place and damaged the toaster" but it didn't really happen.

Mechanisms to manage escrows, security deposits, etc.

Maybe some kind of performance bonding of nostr identities to guarantee good behavior?

I really love the idea of being able to purchase lodging privately with "insurance" protecting both sides from fraud and loss.🙏🏻💖👍😁

Great points Duncan - Im interested to see how well the web of trust works for these use cases.

Definitely more tooling required for an airbnb like experience.