@npub147wh...selt asked me if i could write a reference for
@YakiHonne 's grant renewal from
@OpenSats . And if i sit down and praise them, i might as well do it in public.
If i recall correctly i met Shaun at Bitcoin Amsterdam in 2024, where we were both on a panel, and started using Yakihonne not long after that.
I have recommended and praised Yakihonne in the past multiple times.
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Not just because they are part of the handful of well-developed, mature Nostr clients in the space, but because I know the team is very responsive if there are any issues, and they are open to user feedback and suggestions. I wanted the displaying of threads to change, and at this point they provide options to each their preference. The issue with recommendations is that you leave people in their hands so to speak, so the app as is at that moment is only half as important as the confidence i have in the team behind it.
There is another side of things as to why i often recommend Yakihonne to people, and that is because it walks the line between features and clarity pretty well. It does the micro-blogging part just fine, but the decision to mix in the long-form content really expands the content horizon. Most articles i bothered to read were actually due to the fact the app presented/recommended them to me. I think all the articles i have published myself on Nostr were created using Yakihonne.
They eventually adopted outbox and there are some other Nostr-purity test things that I like, but of course i have my criticisms.
The main one is that they dropped the ball on the relay-feed side of things; a ball they picked up at some point with the introduction of Relay Orbits. It was a start of things, but from there it never got to where i think it could be for now.
I generally rotate between all sorts of clients on an hourly basis, but find myself opening Yakihonne less and less because it is slow compared to some of the other clients out there, however much i like the wiggling pudding/spinning croissant loading icon, at the end of the day i'd rather just like to see the content.
It has been a while since they had an update, but apparently one is coming soon. I am excited to see what they are coming up with. They bother to do marketing and try to bind users to their app. Nostr itself has not seen enough traction to constitute enough of a 'market' for apps to be thriving healthy businesses. But running under the assumption that point will come, i believe the team has what it takes to be one of those commercially viable businesses and remain a well-behaved ecosystem player.
To that effect, just give them the money to continue their operation.It's unfortunate the new version of the app is not out yet, so i can't judge as to whether they have been slacking in the last period. A little bird told me they are supposedly doing something with NIP-63, which would make me very happy. Also the fact that almost everyone is sucking on the same Jack nipple by proxy is terrible of course (i know Opensats has more than just those funds, but still). It already has caused tensions and resentment and drama and what not. And me publicly advocating for one player to get money immediately implies that others don't. But I will leave the relative calculation as to who deserves what and when over the other up to the board, all i am doing is running the assessment of whether the continued support of Yakihonne in and of itself is a good thing, and I would say yes....yes it is.
