I had a powerful "aha!" moment today.
Last week, I published my actual first technical article; a profound milestone for me. Very proud and all that. Read it if you're interested in Nostr E-Commerce and the tech that drives it:
Yakihonne
Nostr E-Commerce - Benefits, Shortcomings, and The Case for Coordinators
Without a system capable of automating the process between a Customer's intent to purchase and a Merchant's acceptance, e-commerce on Nostr will no...
(embed at the end of this post)
Tonight, I've been working on the first NCC (Nostr Commerce Coordinator), which we call C3: The Conduit Commerce Coordinator. Continually, I've been returning to MedusaJS for architectural inspiration; their framework is just simply *chef's kiss*.
It was working with MedusaJS that actually led me to start the NCC article, about two weeks ago. Something about that system hit all the marks for e-commerce... but didn't hit any of the needs of a Nostr relay.
But... an NCC doesn't need to *be* a relay. It needs to be a complete e-commerce system whose persistence and content delivery layer is a Nostr Relay Pool.
Then it struck me like Lightning... MedusaJS is perfect.
It's the perfect framework to kickstart our C3 project.
https://github.com/Conduit-BTC/conduit-commerce-coordinator
MedusaJS absolutely shines for e-commerce. The developer experience is unparalleled. The architecture is solid... expertly-designed. The documentation is as-perfect as it gets. The defaults are sensible. We get, out-of-the-box, a complete e-commerce stack: Stores, Products, Orders, integrations with external services, and powerful extensibility.
Thus, Conduit's primary task-at-hand is to transform #MedusaJS into the world's first Nostr Commerce Coordinator.
Special thanks to the folks at #Nostrify for the excellent work on
https://nostrify.dev. With Nostrify, we got our Medusa Loader querying a relay in seconds.
There's a lot more to come, so check back often, Argonauts of the Nostrverse!
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