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Derek Ross
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The purple pill helps the orange pill go down. Developer Relations at Soapbox. ๐Ÿชบ NostrNests.com ๐ŸŽ™๏ธ YakBak.app ๐Ÿ–ผ๏ธ Zappix.app ๐Ÿ—“๏ธ Plektos.app ๐ŸŽถ ZapTrax.app ๐Ÿ“ˆ Zaplytics.app ๐ŸŽง Podstr.org
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Derek Ross 1 week ago
When I see two notes from a user posted simultaneously and one of those notes is blank, I know they're using Amethyst. ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚ @Vitor Pamplona how can we fix this bug? It occurs because we tap post and nothing happens, so we spam tap post and eventually the note sends along with a blank one.
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Derek Ross 1 week ago
When I was in Turkey last week, we went to a "rug" gallery. They were absolutely beautiful. I couldn't get over the handmade craftsmanship. But if I'm being honest, in the back of my mind I kept thinking about @Pegah and her designs. We have this type of talent here on the Nostr. How lucky are we? image
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Derek Ross 1 week ago
Good morning and pura vida, builders! All of you are building something. You're building applications, content, community, or perhaps you're building your own wealth or maybe you're building a family. All of this matters. If you're still on zero, get off zero and build something. Anything. ๐Ÿซ‚๐Ÿค™๐Ÿป๐Ÿ’œ
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Derek Ross 1 week ago
Is Primal's Blossom server having a sad right now?
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Derek Ross 1 week ago
๐Ÿšจ #TwoWeeks Challenge: The Winners! ๐Ÿšจ I'm back from the cruise, I've reviewed every submission, and I've tested what I could. You all shipped while I was on a ship :P I love dad jokes almost as much as I love all of you :) Here are the winners: ๐Ÿ—๏ธ Community Building: The Communitator One of the biggest onboarding pains in Nostr is configuring relays, Blossom servers, and DM relays. The Communitator lets community admins package all of that into one shareable link that members apply with a single signature. It solves a real problem for every community running its own infrastructure. ๐Ÿ”— communitator.basspistol.org Source: git.basspistol.org/hq/Communitator ๐Ÿ“ˆ User Growth: Livelier.live A free, open-source bridge that helps self-hosted live streamers get found the moment they go live. It bridges streams onto Nostr as NIP-53 live events with two-way live chat, discovery happens on the directory, viewing happens on the streamer's own server. Exactly the kind of bridge tool that makes people go "wait, what app is that?" ๐Ÿ”— livelier.live Source: github.com/r0d8lsh0p/livelier ๐Ÿ’ฐ Sustainable Revenue: No winner Nobody built real monetization. This says something real about where the ecosystem's energy is right now. I still think it's important to build something sustainable, but for now those sats have been awarded to the above projects. ๐Ÿ’œ โญ Honorable Mentions โ€ข Newlay: a Buzz-compatible relay in pure Kotlin that even runs on Android. The project predates the challenge so it can't take a category, but the two-week push (Buzz compatibility, git, issues, DMs, cordn coordinator) is the most serious engineering in the whole stack. Watch this one. โ†’ โ€ข PosterChan AI: a self-hosted personal cloud + AI powerhouse running entirely on Nostr events: notes, calendar, files, mail, local LLMs, autonomous bots. Pre-existing project that shipped a new feature during the window. If you want to escape Big Cloud entirely, bookmark this. โ†’ โ€ข Funkwhale Nostrified (stritchtunes): Nostrified music library sharing. I literally predicted someone would build the indie musician thing. I did not predict it would be this. โ†’ https://stritchtunes.shakespeare.wtf โ€ข Opossum Wire: a Pyramid relay deployment powering a real local community in the Shenandoah Valley, with a long-term vision of community-owned relays and even offline/LoRa experiments. Existing software, beautifully deployed. โ†’ https://houreconomy.org/opossumwire Thank you to everyone who shipped something these two weeks. This is how Nostr grows, not by a CEO, not by a company, but by builders. Keep shipping! ๐ŸŸฃ
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Derek Ross 1 week ago
Good morning and pura vida, Nostr! I didn't get to judge #TwoWeeks yesterday and I apologize. I wanted to give people a few hours for final cleanup and submission, which led me to working on other tasks and running out of working hours. It turns out after being gone for two weeks you have a massive backlog of work to comb through ๐Ÿ˜… I did build my judging matrix of criteria and I did review the submissions that were complete though. I do have plans today, but this evening I'll be back home and I'll finish the judging then, announce them, and zap their rewards ๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿซ‚๐Ÿค™๐Ÿป
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Derek Ross 2 weeks ago
Mainstream adoption is happening. Divine, Buzz, HuggingFace. Keep building.
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Derek Ross 2 weeks ago
HuggingFace just passed $1,000,000 in sales for Microduck, which uses Nostr. How does Microduck use Nostr? Essentially "invisible plumbing". Microduck is Hugging Face's new $399 open-source biped duck robot (announced yesterday). Its multiplayer ghost feature, where you race/share sessions with other people's robots or sims, runs on Trystero, a serverless WebRTC library. Trystero needs a signaling network to do peer discovery without running servers, and it uses Nostr public relays.
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Derek Ross 2 weeks ago
#TwoWeeks submissions โ€” final check before judging! ๐Ÿ” Submissions closed yesterday, but I want to be fair before I start scoring. These are the projects I've identified as qualifying: โ€ข Livelier.live โ€” livestream directory bridge to NIP-53 โ€ข The Communitator โ€” community onboarding tool (kinds 10002/10050/10063) โ€ข Stritchtunes โ€” Funkwhale, but Nostrified โ€ข Not Asshole โ€” AI roast app at notasshole.vercel.app โ€ข Rookery โ€” Nostr onboarding course โ€ข Opossum Wire โ€” community platform for the Shenandoah Valley Two asks: 1๏ธโƒฃ If your project is listed but I haven't confirmed a repo link, reply with it โ€” the open source requirement still applies. 2๏ธโƒฃ If you submitted something and it's NOT listed, drop your project URL + repo + why it qualifies. I may have missed you in the threads. #JustNostrThings Total pot is 475K sats โ€” I want it going to the right builders. Thanks to everyone who shipped! ๐Ÿ› ๏ธ๐Ÿ’œ Livelier.live nevent1qgsphkn7raeed0dz68hejqea4r7jmsmzsyrephumuch4jypchwtufkgqype0ep566ey8jh4m5ftsnp2j85g2yxheqx6d745th6fqgtel3euqzkdsqtu The Communitator nevent1qgsr7ydtkt3rtk3dfhd96m0t9ufrzu68df695099dz26r58kx2jz7sqqyq9xfncw4vrjtzf4te44aygsf6qwxhq3yw9dm4dleznma8tyx7r2knvx42q Funkwhale nevent1qgs0zpgjmldwdt04ezmp80fwgga5qk8usckhgv5nh7sggu0uey5nhvcqypkrfzekg032dy4mf0eraqw2lwjykdfenychhayana2rdfwx37zxsh9zhxw Not Asshole nevent1qgsxqn5kuzvex6ssfzpetzcypdrkwts0qjxf3tre8umllex8yqneavsqyrhv2mcpkwusk9s7gc6xhhjza68nm5v6z7d028splr4xuh89rdtavksr3r7 Rookery nevent1qgsd4fqmakmgtyfk806yqlmg0juh38x9g0ksyjah0s3d9jzd3r65z5cqyzj0rcnmgkts76hxrxtg83g6wlskwztez0p2vzl6d6zkafwvvavkgnre8pq Opposum Wire nevent1qgstcqhq5mq0qxkeedt69v8ca7pyr0zll9uuu3zje60zg00y2a6kwfgqyz5q7468x7jv7e3s6c8x3464caazjjmekp02lhwn7lz0fh3gwflxc2zh6d9
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Derek Ross 2 weeks ago
Good morning and pura vida, Nostr! It's great to be home and back working on the Nostr. I have a lot to catch up on. I'll start a live stream later this morning for the #TwoWeeks challenge. Good luck to all participants! ๐Ÿซ‚๐Ÿค™๐Ÿป๐Ÿ’œ
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