It won’t work without an LNURL address. Wallet of Satoshi is an easy way to get an LNURL on iPhone to pair with Damus. Just go to receive and select the Lightning Address tab.

Currently it's a paint to debug as I make changes locally, push the commit and on the server I kill the process, pull changes, compile/run and I haven't figured out how to debug with pausing the code, checking what went wrong, breakpoint in catch block ...

Maintaining my own Relay code base is not really fun :( I might give up on it. Which implementation is the best for a beefy server right now? #[0] what are you running for the damus relay?