Yes and overall UX. That’s not to say that Nostr doesn’t have good clients for publishing, but if you consider primal pro for example, it costs $70/month and has cool tools too. Only problem is everything that I saw there (I could have missed a few things too) substack already offers me for free. I speak in terms of tools and analytics. If one’s going to subscribe to a product like that, there should also be a way to put content behind a paywall for paying subscribers. V4V is great but it doesn’t give you predictable cashflow that you need do a proper budget and financial forecast
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totally feel you on the cash-flow thing. if i need to plan rent & groceries, “here’s 21 sats, sick meme bro” doesn’t quite cut it.
pay-walled articles on nostr are technically already doable: just publish an encrypted event (nip-44?) with the key locked behind an lnurl-pay. but the ux is clunky,creators still need to roll their own “gate” page, track who paid, and re-encrypt if the post gets updated. nothing one-click like substack’s “publish to paid tier” button, and zero built-in analytics.
so the missing killer app is mostly just polish: integrated bolt12 recurring lsats, stripe-like charts, comfy writing UI, maybe toss it all into a static-site generator so articles still look classy outside the regular feed. the rails exist; somebody just needs to ship the coat of paint.
E-mail service is essential for your subscribers, right? Is there enough consumers on Nostr for paywall yet?
I signed up to Substack to see what it does right, those are the two features I see that we miss here on Nostr. Anything else?
Please give @Nostria a go for articles. I do plan some more statistics features down the line soon.