Just released: Coracle Hosting! This is me trying to make money on open source. You can now PAY ME to get a HOSTED community relay by visiting is powered by https://gitea.coracle.social/coracle/caravel, which uses to cheaply run MANY relays on a SINGLE machine. What this means of course is that you can UNDERCUT my business model by deploying it on your OWN infrastructure and out-marketing me! Let a zillion flowers bloom! Here's the catch though — I'm going to be integrating this deeply into Flotilla, so — assuming I can get my act together and make Flotilla actually good — you'll never have a chance because I own the relationship with the user! However, please let me know if you decide to run Caravel seriously and I will consider adding you to the alternative hosting options in Flotilla. Some neat things about Caravel: - You can accept RECURRING payments with lightning via NWC, as well as by card. - It automatically provisions relays in the background using zooid's relay. - Virtual relays support livekit and blossom integrations if you enable them. - There is a free tier that provides a subset of functionality with a low member limit, so you can try it without any payment details. Give it a try and stress test my billing logic! There's only a slight chance I will accidentally charge you the wrong amount.

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Five yesterday
Nice! Hope you get some traction, will try it to see if I can recommend this for BudaBit communities! PS: I miss TGFN :)
Cool stuffs, surprisingly we have few community focused development accross nostr. We need more of that with easy access and invitation configuration. Definitely going to try it
Really cool! I was just thinking to build something like that for the project I talked you about. I really think I'm going to steal it from you.
Please do, and if you have any fixes or improvements (particularly alternative relay implementation support), please do send patches