The new White Lies album is an absolute banger. #tunestr

Saturday night launch. 🚀 Nostr's UX problem isn't a secret. 30-day retention trends to 0%. Daily active users stuck at ~10k. Posts disappear. Followers vanish when you switch apps. Every app feels like beta software. I've spent 2+ years arguing that great UX wins. So I designed a meta-study, threw a few hundred dollars at Claude, and put together what the evidence indicates. tl;dr: Ship working experiences, then add features. 🔗

UX Patterns for Nostr Apps

Evidence-informed patterns for building Nostr apps people actually use

6 critical patterns backed by 100+ citations: ‣ Onboarding, content discovery, core interactions ‣ Performance, progressive complexity, cross-client consistency ‣ Anti-patterns to avoid + validation checklists I'm not a designer, but I know what good looks like. This is opinionated, evidence-based, and focused on retention. What am I missing? What did I get wrong? Send PRs this way:

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GitHub - shawnyeager/nostr-ux-patterns: Evidence-informed UX patterns for building Nostr apps people actually use

Evidence-informed UX patterns for building Nostr apps people actually use - shawnyeager/nostr-ux-patterns

cc: @HoloKat @elsat @daniele

gm, good people. ☕

The inverse Inverse Kramer.

Futurism

The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops

Michael Burry, who shorted the housing market in 2008, has bet over $1 billion that the shares of AI companies Nvidia and Palantir will fall.

Last night's opening act was new to me; so good live and criminally underrated. #tunestr

Funny, that. https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/us-employment-report-will-not-be-published-again-government-shutdown-drags-2025-11-07/

gm, good people. ☕ Happy Friday.

Molowda & The Humble

French Cassettes

Bitcoin will never debank you. https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/jpmorgan-chase-responding-government-fair-access-banking-policies-2025-11-04/

The divide between on-mission and for-profit is an age-old schism. It's especially pronounced in tech. Nostr is no exception. My contention is that you can be on-mission while being for-profit, but you're going to have to make hard trade-offs. Ultimately, you need to choose. If you pick purity over profit, great. Godspeed. If you choose profit at the cost of purity, also great. Good hunting. Firing shots from one camp at the other accomplishes nothing of benefit to either. You picked your lane. Run your race.

Frontier Tech GTM Advisory - Shawn Yeager

Sovereignty without sacrifice

Freedom tech loses when it demands sacrifice. Winning means building products that are better on every dimension—not just principles.

gm, good people. ☕

I'd done some poking around. I don't have inside information, but based on this and similar remarks, it's a no for me now. https://xcancel.com/_arshbot/status/1986156462519832921