Well, Plati is now live! 🥁🥁🥁 https://plati.app Some info: 🕐 2+ months of work. Basic intended functionality works. Maybe not all edge cases. 🇷🇺 It currently supports only SBP (the Russian Fast Payments System). 🕺 Two types of users: Customer and Payer. 💁‍♂️ Customer is anyone who wants to pay a Russian merchant with bitcoin. Top up your bitcoin balance, scan the merchant’s QR-code, and your order will go to the order book. 🙋‍♂️ Payer is anyone with a Russian bank account willing to pick up orders from the order book. ✅ A completed order means that the invoice is paid (Customer happy), and Payer receives invoice amount + commission to his bitcoin balance (also happy). 👌 Zero users because nobody outside Nostr knows about it. 🤣 I will now do more basic testing and start planning marketing campaigns. Onwards! 🚀

“Is this an edge case or part of basic functionality?”

Initially, Plati will be custodial. Moreover, only cold wallet. First of all, it’ll take me a lot more time to figure out non-custodial setups. Better delegated to a professional software engineer when the time is right. Secondly, I’m not even sure about ability to secure a hot wallet correctly. Even though I think I can integrate automated transactions using my bitcoin node, I decided to go full cold storage at the moment. Again, a proper engineer will have to tackle this when it’s appropriate. I’m using a “ship fast for proof of concept” approach (and even that took time!). But when I see it work in the wild, all bets are off: self-custodial, nostr, Lightning, Ark, you name. Everything will be explored, evaluated and integrated if proven useful. So, obviously, users shouldn’t store on Plati what they’re not comfortable losing. #PlatiDev

The deployed app seems to be functioning well. It’s time to make a quick landing page. #PlatiDev

This is the current Customer screen on Plati. I wanted to make it dead simple: Scan a QR code or paste payment link, and your order immediately goes to the order book. You can wait for someone to pay your invoice or cancel it. #PlatiDev

Well, after a few days of debugging, I was able to deploy my Plati prototype. I used Replit’s automated and very convenient deployment feature but I’m sure I can do it elsewhere, too. There is no limit to improvements and new features that I can develop, but at this point I want actual real-life testing by users. So, if it’s pretty stable in the next few days, I’ll start working on getting some minor volumes from real users. #PlatiDev

Damn, I pay for Kagi and still have to look elsewhere to generate images. Cmon!

Elon is a genius marketer. You either love him or hate him. But you can’t ignore him. And that’s the point.

Hey @Kagi I think it’d be great if you included at least one image generator in the Assistant.

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