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Shawn _@shawnyeager.com 3 months ago
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.

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Shawn _@shawnyeager.com 3 months ago
Honest feedback: it suffers from what I see from most clients, which is overloading with features. It's a dizzyingly complex UI. If I could wave a magic wand, I'd want something very close to buttondown.com (newsletter host), where I can control the visual design, write (using markdown) and publish, then manage "subscribers". Second to that, I see Substack as the king of online self-publishing. That feature set, built on nostr, is a killer app.
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SondreB sondreb@nostria.app 3 months ago
Here is the article editors compared. I'll remove the "New Article" headline, I'll move the fixed toolbar to the top and reintroduce the formatting toolbar that (I will keep the in-line hover toolbar as well (based on Medium editor). I'll move the abstract to the top after title, similar to Substack. Then I'll also look at the general UI of rest of Substack. I've had this idea of a e-mail service with summary sent every day, could combine this with an e-mailing/subscription like capability such as Substack. image
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