Thread - Nostr Hypermedia

vinney...axkl vcavallo@vinneycavallo.com 1 month ago

if you have a few minutes to spare, take a look at this video of an over-simplified mockup and tell me if it would be 'hard' to get on board for a newb. i think if anything it would be so easy that they wouldn't understand it's real money; they'd see it like video game points:

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JD 1 month ago

For a nostr newb, or a normie newb, are two seperate things. "Upwork, but with Bitcoin". Clever idea. Obfuscate as much as possible behind the UX... And make it slick. You've done a good job as this. The layout is simple which is nice. But man. We're all in a tough spot. All this stuff is complicated and normies only want what's easy. Mass culture is always "lowest common denominator". The hard part is making it work... E cash mints blow up. Or don't work. Lightning is still unfinished with routing issues. Etc... The hierarchy is something like... Compiling FOSS stuff < Developing and coding < Node running and Mining < Self custody and Nostr < < ETFs < What is Bitcoin < What is Money < Critical Thinking. Godspeed man.

Shawn

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. 🔗 https://nostr-ux.com 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: https://github.com/shawnyeager/nostr-ux-research cc: @🐈 @elsat @daniele

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vinney...axkl vcavallo@vinneycavallo.com 1 month ago

upwork but for bitcoin:

Catallax - A Protocol for Pseudonymous Contract Work Economies

Catallax is an open protocol that enables pseudonymous contract work economies. It runs over Nostr, Bitcoin and Cashu ecash for censorship-resistan...

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vinney...axkl vcavallo@vinneycavallo.com 1 month ago

lol sorry i misread this notification. i haven't built a production-ready client for catallax, only a few references and demos of the protocol in the hopes that others will build a specific client for their use case.