If you are interested in local use cases for nostr, relay.tools + nostrudel.ninja is probably the best combo for a private relay that you host and include friends / family / community. I just tested it out, the private relay allows you to whitelist npubs to allow them to write messages on the relay. The setup proces for the relay was easy and intuitive. The cost is manageable especially if costs were shared (21000 sats / month...about $8 / month). And the on-boarding experience for nostrudel.ninja allows a user to bootstrap their nsec with just the private relay, which will minimize gobal nostr stuff bleeding into the experience. Nostrudel.ninja is also just one of the more feature rich and better functioning clients out there so your friends / family will find the use-experience great if it's their first time with nostr (most likely is). It's what I'll be using for mine 😃

#nostr

I have been quiet lately, but it is for some good reason.

I am turning my medical device company ( eyenetra.com ) into an open-source project.

As some of you may know, I spent the past 15 years trying to increase access to eyeglasses by developing and shipping a new class of vision-testing devices. Even though we shipped thousands of units and served millions of patients, Nostr made me realize what I was missing all along: true decentralization.

All of our hardware designs and software will be made available to the FOSS community to build their own vision-testing devices and services. And I am going to be working with design/manufacturing partners across the globe to bring them to the market in as many variations as we can.

It has been a long process but I finally have all approvals to make it happen. Thanks to all my shareholders who believed in this idea and allowed me to make it happen.

The future is bright.

With help of #AI, and with a good overview of any programming language , a technical writer may easily graduate to be a developer. If that happens the world will see lot more creative expressions of software !

#lightning is currently the only way to support this #creativeEconomy ! Given the exponential pace of AI , no other currency appears ready for this creative awakening ..

#nostr couldn't have happend at a more opportune time. It is a reference architecture to showcase adoption of #lighning for creative pursuits. #socialCommerce at internet speed. #V4V appears a much better design choice than #nfts

thanx! will DM you 😉

In my culture when it’s your birthday you are the one that pays for everyone when you go out! But thank you 🙏💜

Happy Birthday!!!

grass fed of course 🐄 #foodstr #grownostr #babechain #plebchain

Free?

We launched our first Nostr relay. A standard Linux box running at a Swiss datacenter that is powered by geothermal and hydroelectric power.

wss://nostr.hubmaker.io.

We will be adding a second one shortly.

BTW we are renaming our company Hubmaker Labs. Currently its called Catalyze Software.