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HiveTalk
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Best in class videoconferencing tool powered by #nostr and the #bitcoin lightning network. Meet, talk and #Zap people in the face⚡️ Join the swarm 🐝 #grownostr #otherstuff PS: This is a v4v service and as long as we keep meeting our zap goal to cover expenses, it shall continue to be free 🤙
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HiveTalk 11 hours ago
Don't got time to setup your permanent rooms? No worries! Create an ephemeral room on the fly! image
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HiveTalk yesterday
This latest push has brought more features to Hivetalk, and we got a couple more down our sleeve :P Help us keep building for the community! image
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HiveTalk 4 days ago
Now it's easier than ever to bring your non-nostr friends to hivetalk! Join them in ephemeral rooms, or invite them to your permanent rooms and lock the door :) image
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HiveTalk 5 days ago
⚡ ️Every #Zap helps us keep Hivetalk FREE ⚡ ️ image
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HiveTalk 6 days ago
Different experiences, Same hive 🐝 💜 💪 image
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HiveTalk 1 week ago
Sometimes you want a LOBBY on your OPEN rooms to choose who to let in, Sometimes you want a PRIVATE room where only WHITELISTED npubs can join. You can pick whichever works best for you :) image
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HiveTalk 1 week ago
Best thing about ROOM LOCK is that you can ENABLE THE LOBBY to allow for guests on the outside to request access to join. image
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HiveTalk 3 months ago
Monetization Musings: #Zaps , V4V, and the Pay-to-Play Pivot. Sustainability is the bee’s knees, and 2025 was our lab for micro-strategies: - Zap Goals: Timed targets under 100,000 sats/month, embedded site-wide. Hit ‘em, or the server’s off—keeps us lean and accountable. - Donor Badges: Big zappers get flair. Early supporters, you’re the real MVPs and are awarded rare Nostr badges. - Educational Content: Knowledge drops to empower users—because informed bees build stronger hives. - Pay-to-Play (Planned for Q1 2026): Recording and live-streaming to external sites. Some Hivetalk users log 10+ hours daily (love y’all!), but the economics need to work. Observations from the #Nostr projects? Subscriptions are a hard sell, V4V’s hit-or-miss (audience engagement is key), and growth might slow in 2026. Enter “Pay to Play”—could it be the direct, engaging path to better outcomes? We’re experimenting, because value flows where engagement hums. Stay tuned for updates.
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HiveTalk 3 months ago
Hivetalk Mantra: Code Quality Comes First Thanks to awesome new #AI based tools we were able to rapidly accelerate our build cycles, experiment more and turn around our code releases faster, while building the project in our free time. A little over a year ago, churning out 100,000+ lines of code at this speed would have been unthinkable! We put a lot of work in grinding out the new version, making a lot of revisions and trial and error along the way. While velocity matters, shipping responsibly matters more. We invested heavily in DDoS relay hardening, and enforcing NIP-42 authentication on our relay, two critical infrastructure layers that matter but don’t show up as user facing visible work. We also tackled tech debt cleanup—the unsexy but essential work that prevents yesterday’s shortcuts from becoming tomorrow’s bottlenecks. Check out our progress in this beautiful Hivetalk Honey Build animation.
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HiveTalk 3 months ago
Community Buzz: Small Businesses and Very Busy Bees If there’s one word for our user base this past 2025, it’s *vibrant*. We’ve watched small businesses and solopreneurs turn HiveTalk into their secret weapon for zap-powered transactions and global reach. Take @npub1m7h20lqwnjd8snaf8alefep6xfkdeanlv74ce4my5p4drjed5l2qsq0yf8 , the English teacher zapping his way through lessons for Russian students—frictionless peer to peer lightning payments, no banks involved. Or @npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424 , who hosted weekly “Shakespeare-vibe” coding sessions to demystify #AI tools for the community. These aren’t outliers; they’re the norm in our hive. Check out this talk from Nostr Valley about Nostr for Content Creators and see how Hivetalk plays a role!
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HiveTalk 3 months ago
Did you know? #asknostr Now when you create a permanent room on Honey Hivetalk, you can attach a calendar event (Kind 30313) to your room, and it will pop up seamlessly as an event scheduled on honey.hivetalk.org. But, there’s more - since #nostr is decentralized, these calendar events will show up across the ecosystem on other nostr clients, bridging the gap. This is much more than just “sharing a link on another website” - the cryptographically signed and verified event data is also replicated - who created it, when it was created, the event details, location, time and relays where the data is published. Here are two clients that replicate Honey calendar event data: plektos.app and nostrcal.com image
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HiveTalk 4 months ago
The differences between Vanilla and Honey in a nutshell. image
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HiveTalk 4 months ago
@Dave Nicholls what are your preferred Vanilla features that you would like to see on Honey? 🐝💜
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HiveTalk 4 months ago
Hivetalk users, we need your opinion / feedback. Do you prefer using Vanilla even though it's only the videoconferencing, it can't scale and has worse fidelity? Or do you prefer the posibility of scale that Honey offers and all the #nostr tools that are enabled? #asknostr
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HiveTalk 4 months ago
image 2025 was the year HiveTalk truly took flight. Remember our initial goal? What started as a scrappy prototype #Nostr + #Lightning video conferencing has now blossomed into a thriving hub for global connections. That vision evolved rapidly, into two versions: Vanilla Hivetalk and Honey Hivetalk. If you haven't already, be sure to check them out at
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HiveTalk 6 months ago
Use services that can't leak your data. We can't leak what we don't harvest 🤙🐝🙈 image
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HiveTalk 7 months ago
This is one of the reasons @npub1z0lcg9p2v5nzg5fycxq0k56ze6snp42clmrafzqpn5w6u74v5x9q708ldk is so much better than Jitsy or Zoom. View quoted note →
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HiveTalk 8 months ago
Ok, let's be honest. Who do you think deserves to be ZAPPED IN THE FACE? 👋⚡🐝 image