After owning a house for 20+ years, submitting a rental application is a nerve-racking process. Don’t usually have this kind of fear of denial.

who here knows how to Crochet? 👀🐸

I’d rather zap a fren sats than go thru Etsy

Primal’s trending algo is no longer easily gameable by bots. We implemented a new system based on web of trust. We will publish more details soon, but the high-level idea is to infer humanity of a pubkey based on its connections in the social graph. As always, full source code for this system is open and available in our repo.

Given this new capability, we removed everyone from the "can't trend" list. This means that every Nostr account is able to trend on Primal; they just need to post a note that produces genuine user engagement. We will monitor the results of this, but it is possible that a global "can't trend" list is no longer needed.

The best part: Primal’s trending feed got a whole lot better!

Random thought before I go to bed: package your knowledge and sell it as products.

10 hours worked is 10 hours traded away. But 10 hours spent on a product can be resold many times over.

Most people think they don’t have enough information to turn into a product, but they don’t realize that everyone is at a different level where a product too many levels ahead may not be the best suited. Someone is always a level below you who can probably use the knowledge you have, or the experience you have particularly because you are a level above them and not 10 levels above them.

Obvious product ideas and relative purchase prices:

- Books ($)

- Knowledge bases ($$) - curated information

- Courses ($$-$$$)

- Personal newsletters ($-$$$$) - build a list

- Digital products / packages of products (design, code, art, video production, illustrated works, animations, kits, templates, boilerplates, plugins, themes, music)

- Memberships to product suite (for example yearly access to designs)

- Communities (some paid communities making well over 6 figures)

- Startups

Once you have an audience, it’s easier to sell more products to the same people because they are already willing to pay once, so they may pay again.

“But, I don’t have time!” Who does? No one has time for anything, but we make some anyway. Nights, weekends.

We have incredible tools to do everything and automate most of the work already.

Don’t forget to reuse everything you create. Recored a video? Turn it into shorts, transcripts into notes, video into podcast and into audio soundbites. Transcript into long form blog posts, into books. Take a bunch of videos and make a course. 

While you do all of this you’ll see what’s missing from the market and can quickly create products to meet demand.

Don’t spend too much time making the wrong thing too. Create a bit, pitch it to people who may be interested and ask them to pre-pay. If no one pays, chances are it’s not good enough. Back to drawing board.

Time-box everything. Give yourself impossible deadlines. You’ll fail to meet them but you’ll get way more done. 

That is all. Good night! 💤😴😘

First they asked for a phone number and 8 bucks and no one said anything because it was just a phone number and 8 bucks then they asked for IDs and no one protested because they were getting revenue from their views, then they asked for your job, your medical records, and a sample of your DNA because of “safety” and only the Nostriches could resist because everyone else was desperately trying to make a living off Twitter

First they asked for a phone number and 8 bucks and no one said anything because it was just a phone number and 8 bucks then they asked for IDs and no one protested because they were getting revenue from their views, then they asked for your job, your medical records, and a sample of your DNA because of “safety” and only the Nostriches could resist because everyone else was desperately trying to make a living off Twitter

good morning nostr, freedom tech is hope 🫡

Yep. Many of us are blind to the basic of UX issues such as functional search because we’ve been here for so long and are already used to this experience.

Features are great but we can’t overlook the basics. nostr:note1chzyfz5e2t3rjyld0erqsr64je4kx7k34jvag732s43th8n0wa7snlhyew

First sorry for the delay.

1- No company, just me coding 🤓

2- My cat (His name is Sonic) 😸

3- Because people like you can upload illegal stuff in my jurisdiction.

4- I don't know if I should take this seriously 😅 nostr:note18hlzvv28m6vg3f2q3jh9q9ngdyrv0dmflgu0ufuxjqfyjfjt532qe67aj3

First sorry for the delay.

1- No company, just me coding 🤓

2- My cat (His name is Sonic) 😸

3- Because people like you can upload illegal stuff in my jurisdiction.

4- I don't know if I should take this seriously 😅 nostr:note18hlzvv28m6vg3f2q3jh9q9ngdyrv0dmflgu0ufuxjqfyjfjt532qe67aj3

What the hell is with this latest trend in US politics where a bunch of shadowy lobbyists / NGO’s will target political party members on the brink of senility, and groom them into taking over their entire professional function / back office like some kind of parasitic larvae?

Literally I am seeing zombie politics. 🧟‍♂️

Does nobody else see this? Many of the victims are so old and frail they need help to just stand at a lectern. Their legacies are destroyed as they monotonically spout politics from autocues that are often diametrically opposite to the beliefs they advanced in their early careers.

Are audiences really so unthinking that they just swallow this stuff… Familiar face, familiar name, must be OK?

I hope this trend never comes here. 🇬🇧

It’s starkly obvious plutocracy and Americans don’t seem to have any kind of radar for it?

Super weird.

What the hell is with this latest trend in US politics where a bunch of shadowy lobbyists / NGO’s will target political party members on the brink of senility, and groom them into taking over their entire professional function / back office like some kind of parasitic larvae?

Literally I am seeing zombie politics. 🧟‍♂️

Does nobody else see this? Many of the victims are so old and frail they need help to just stand at a lectern. Their legacies are destroyed as they monotonically spout politics from autocues that are often diametrically opposite to the beliefs they advanced in their early careers.

Are audiences really so unthinking that they just swallow this stuff… Familiar face, familiar name, must be OK?

I hope this trend never comes here. 🇬🇧

It’s starkly obvious plutocracy and Americans don’t seem to have any kind of radar for it?

Super weird.

Damus home button sometimes isn’t clickable. I have to click it 5 times to make it work. Anyone else have this issue ?

good morning nostr, freedom is not granted - it is taken and defended 🫡

My kid woke up today and saw the iPhone and pixel side by side and said “why do you have 2 phones?! Give me one!”