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Apps used by businesses like docs/sheets/slides etc with traditional UX but privacy guarantees using confidential computing in the backend

Something around Community. Which is my intention. Here's a rough plan what I got in my head right now: Problem: Communities around open source and freedom tech software development are fragmented. - Code collab is mostly on GitHub but also on Gitlab, Gitea and some others. - Conversation is scattered in even more places like Telegram, Discord, Signal, Simplex (group chat) and Reddit, Discourse, Github and some others (forum-like interactions). - Coordination efforts like events (physical and virtual like community calls) are all over the internet as well From the project leader's perspective open source is mostly a love-hate grind. Dealing with a flood of issues and PRs, keeping the community engaged and trying to balance a life with all challenges of open-source. From the beginner dev's perspective It's really hard to get started and become useful. There's inherently low trust due to low quality contributions and churn. Hard to find mentors and jump-start a career, although it's attractive from the distance. College doesn't teach you useful stuff so this would be a nice replacement. From the companies' perspective it's increasingly hard to find talent. College kids come out with fiat knowledge that's hard to utilize without massive investment from the company. What all of these lack is a high-trust environment, sort of like a guild of the old days where craft and apprenticeship was taken seriously, and where talent can grow. Moderated communities on Nostr are like these guilds in my head, without the monopolistic prices because you get a simple exit and continuity using Nostr. Grow the community --> Establish Trust and let people earn reputation doing open-source /freedom tech work --> Get sponsored by companies for visibility in a place where mostly everyone could be their next hire. Get sponsored on the main community site, community streams, etc. Companies could also pay for zapraisers in the community to virtue-signal. They effectively pay for open-source development without having a say in what gets developed and how leaders want to manage their groups. LinkedIn and such are just very lame these days. Everyone's there because they have to. It's because that is a low-trust environment, bad for recruiters. Nostr could be the next place to grow developer talent. And we have literally everything to make this happen, the hard work is to grow successful communities. These will become unstoppable because if leaders screw up, members fork and keep it alive someplace else. It's the most trivial to do compared to other protocols. BudaBit is designed to do something like this. Gives control to project leaders over their code collab (issues, PRs on Nostr, code anywhere at all redundantly), over the conversation (forum-like threads and group chat), coordination (calendar, later calls and streams), and funding (zaps, potential sponsorships). Everything is verifiable and the content is compatible with other nostr apps. This coupled with moderation creates the perfect competition for the best communities where devs thrive, and is sustainable. This is kind of my vision.

Interesting!

Can such thing exist in freedom tech space? 🤔

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