As most freedom tech projects are maintained by hobbyist developers it comes with no surprise to find that the average UX sucks (Zapstore is no exception).
We need more *products* with freedom tech. More teams. More funding.
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Hodl more then
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Price appreciation results in whale donations to projects
I want more businesses and less donations
Build one then
The Revolution Will Not Have Good UX.
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I'm not calling it revolution. We can do better
I totally agree, but also,In my opinion, Zapstore's ux is pretty good.
Why else would I be saying that
Thank you
talk is cheap and abundant
Well shut the fuck up then
This has been my viewpoint from when I started working on nostr. Unfortunately it's more difficult than it sounds. The bitcoin and foss ethos seems contrary to productizing 🤔
I'm happy to constructively complain about your UX.
i'm not the one asking for things
I'm happy to take your feedback! The point though is: we need more resources. I can't do it all myself
I wish to see more projects exploring this intersection. I find what @Svetski is doing with Satlantis interesting
El mundo real se mueve con sucio dinero de grandes capitales que invierten donde existe una necesidad solicitada por millones de usuarios de quienes luego podrán recuperar su inversión.
#nostr desafortunadamente no ha creado una necesidad que los usuarios valoren por ahora. Un día llegará, no sé si nosotros lo veamos. 👀
¿Alguna estrategia o servicio premium de la app para recaudar al menos una parte?
I’m working on some UX proposals for the “big devs” software in my free time. I will soon present a design architecture proposal for Start9. Software should be easy to use so “normies” can get onboard smoothly without friction.
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Do you have plans to make zapstore into a business? Do you have a plan for how to get revenue?
Hey I like Zapstore UX!
I’d love to see some funds directed towards quality marketing development. Standards still apply. We are up against firms and “crypto” projects that have massive budgets, after all. In retrospect, marketing might even be the only aspect some projects offer.
Two birds covered if marketing also includes education.
Yes and yes
Probably launch a token and a collection of NFTs 😜
I mean it seems intuitive that you enable zapping to app authors and you take 5% cut, which I think would be very fair, or you create easy to use infra/libs for apps to integrate zaps and then you get cut from there...
We are launching next month
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Para mi el problema de UX se resuelve con financiamiento, y con equipos que realmente entiendan el valor de la disciplina.
Se pueden hacer productos increibles pensados para el usuario de a pie, pero los proyectos duran meses, y hay personas que no pueden darse el lujo de hacerlo solo por hobby.
More products devs need to consider design (and user) at the outset ➡️ 
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it is also necessary to see the pros and cons that a web project implies, 'nostr' does have a lot of potential, but it is also necessary to generate an environment of trust in which users really want to try and improve what they already have.
Me too for sure. It's the reason I teamed up with @Constant on his idea of a WoT based browser, it has usecases specific enough to raise funds and employ multiple fulltime devs to build an actual product.
I like how satlantis is one of those apps which uses nostr but does not require the user to know anything about it.
That's great but I want to see more designers in product teams
Yes it’s essential …at the outset…not as an afterthought - well designed products work better AND more enduring
I am a designer however rarely lead with that as I resent being brought late stage to “pretty it up” - functionalist blindness I’m calling it - to be successful LT early stage product dev MUST include design considerations…
Si se viene el premium
Yes, also premium offerings
What are premium offerings?
Agree … but making a consumer grade product is also a KYC nightmare. Register with real name as an iOS developer or start a company and register with the state. Google Android developer KYC will follow soon. Want to have payments? Then KYC your users. I‘d rather build a limited web app that works for some users than sell my soul.
Put me down for 10 FranCoin
Are you kidding, the user base here is far too small to monetise for anything other than snack money. The part of the user base that is regularly active and that can even use zapstore could literally fit into a small town church. And most of them download like an app a month.
You have to take the tech and monetise it elsewhere, to existing business that have their own existing user bases.
nostr is infinitesimally, ridiculously, unfatohomably tiny.
Agree, but how to do it in practice? I'd be happy to support such projects on a recurring basis, but I don't want to mess around with payments every month, but instead "set and forget":
Hit a button "support development with 10 USD a month", automatically deducted from my wallet every month until I cancel.
Yes! That's one of the payment options coming
Correct, it makes no sense to only focus on the Nostr user base. You're wrong in that most users download/update many apps per month, some check in daily.
If anything that's a good indication it'll work well when you plug it into a non-nostr user base that can drive actually decent revenue to it.
Hopefully! Bring nostr to these people in a sly roundabout way
Yes
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Did you also think about "pro" features? Could be interesting to explore...
Definitely, I already have quite defined Zapstore Premium
Sounds like giving up, I'm up for a more interesting challenge