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Gustavo
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Building Ghostr

For now I'm just reading the 34235 and 34236. But I'll probably try to extract videos for everywhere (but publish only in these)

The beautiful thing about Nostr is that even when clients compete with each other, as long as each one brings in new users, everyone wins. And if someone is doing a better job than you in a certain area, you can focus more on the features that set you apart.

Peter Thiel says competition is for losers. Naval talks about escaping competition through authenticity. I tend to agree with both.

My vision for Ghostr is ambitious—very ambitious. Right now, the first version is just a clunky, amateur TikTok clone, but that’s a start. If I have the time and the health to see it through, Ghostr will evolve into a space that explores certain forms of social interaction—ones that have existed for as long as humans have but are becoming increasingly rare.

As our lives and consciousness move deeper into cyberspace, and even our physical spaces are constantly recorded, something is being lost.

I love the internet. It has slashed the cost of information distribution by orders of magnitude. But in a hyperconnected world with an unforgiving memory—where everything is recorded—society begins to expect you to act inhumanly.

They say that if you are not extremely ashamed of your first app version you didn't ship fast enough. Fair enough: here is the v.

0.0.1 of Ghostr: https://github.com/ghostr-social/app/releases/tag/v0.0.1

Infinite video scroll. No login. No logo. Not available in stores yet. Few.

sorry, I didn't express myself well. Egui have lots of dependencies on single devs -- not a specific a one. There is no huge money flow making things work as Google did with Flutter. But when the ecosystem matures a little more and the risk deescalate, I probably would shift for egui

Remember when I talked to you, Will, about egui? After learning a bit more, I had the same impression you just mentioned. Egui is amazing, but I noticed that many essential engineering components depend on a single anonymous developer. That is a huge risk. So I went Flutter+Rust+C

Yes, haha that was fun. I'm writing most things in Rust/C so we can add filters/AI masks/ image processors. I also have a couple of ideas for plausible deniability and more ephemeral posts on Nostr, that is why I primary started this project. I would love to collaborate

I was not planing open the repos right now, so the commits and docs are a joke. But you asked...

Great. Probaby I wouldn't start building one if Kieran launched 2 weeks ago. Now it's too late. I have done lots things that I think are really nice, so I guess we are going to have two TikToks on Nostr

Time to build Ghostr for Android (our TikTok-like app on Nostr). I'm not proud of this version yet. Many many things to do, but it was honest work. Never shipped a mobile app before, so I learned a ton.

It is already the best video consumer app for Nostr imo. It loads stuff fast. Data plan killer, as a you would expect for TikTok-like app. Working on profiles & search next, but also fixing bugs.

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Hmmm. Do you have a vectorized version of it?. I think my issue is with the colors. But my girlfriend loved and I very suspicious about my own taste