buy the rumor, buy the news #bitcoin

I’ve been reflecting on my core beliefs about nostr. Today we have a simple protocol and some high quality apps which enable us to use nostr together. That’s wonderful and, imo, the right way to instigate a new ecosystem from scratch! However, I think nostr may succeed fastest when it’s able to orchestrate reading/writing of all Internet messages a person wants to read/write. A lot of discussion assumes people have to adopt ecosystem clients for nostr to succeed, but I’m not so sure. Instead of requiring everyone to adopt it directly (and changing publishing behavior to new nostr-focused apps), I wonder if we consider it from the perspective of an infrastructure. Can we aggregate all existing messages from the internet that a person wants to read? Can we publish once to all important destinations that someone wants to write? Who has explored these ideas so far?

Merry Christmas, nostr-friends! 🎄🎅🤙

Nostr News - Dec 19 - @Max and @David King where we talk about Nostrasia, Bob's Prisms, building businesses in AI, AI to build custom software, StackerNews, Territories and The Network State, nostr search, prediction markets

can these easily make it to nostr?

congrats to @k00b on launching territories on StackerNews love the creativity this encourages

Stacker News

SN release: territories, formerly known as user generated subs \ stacker news

territories You can now created your own subs territories. Note: this is just an MVP. It's probably 5% of what we have planned for territories. edi...

Who Builds Software Matters On the declining production costs and coming remixability of software “As we become more sophisticated, our ideas about what our word processor, ourgraphics system should do for us diverge more and more from those of the initial designers. We now want to edit our tools as we have previously edited our documents.” -Alan Kay, Apple Computer Corporation, Sept 1984 The High Cost of Software Software is expensive to build today because there are very few software engineers. There are about 8 billion people in the world, but only about 28 million software developers. So the number of people who can build software rounds to roughly 0. Yet everyone in the world wants and needs software. Up till now, we’ve been prevented from getting what we actually want due to the high cost of production. Talented engineers only have a limited number of hours in a day to build so they need to get paid for their rare skill. Software for the Masses Building software has been expensive so we’ve become accustomed to accepting software designed for the masses. Today’s designers aim to serve the broadest set of users possible so the high cost of building gets amortized over a large number of people. That means no one gets exactly what they want, but everyone gets something that’s good enough to be useful. AI changes WHO builds software AI brings us tools that democratize software development. As production becomes cheaper, it changes who can build software. This changes how software gets designed, developed, and deployed, which creates an explosion in how much new software gets built. We can appreciate how AI code generation models help software engineers build. It’s easy to see how these tools can improve their efficiency. But we can organize these same tools in ways that change who builds software. And who builds software matters. You can squint and see a future where we can all build our own custom software. We’ve seen this kind of auto-generation in the domains of language, images, and video. We'll soon see it in the domain of software creation. Free-to-build encourages remixing In the future you’ll notice a simple need and you’ll be able to conjure up a micro-app in minutes to address it. The economics of creating and owning software changes. Anything a user dreams up is low effort to create and copyable by someone else. That’s a good thing. It makes software more like media. Micro-apps become building blocks. Other users can remix them adding new functionality. We can now equip software with the same memetic super powers as we have with short-form video. This is the future of software. But no one has built the end-to-end tools to enable this yet. These user-to-user creative interactions make the value of software compound. But we’ll need some network (or protocol?) to manage the specifications and data across these apps if they’re going to be collaborative. Forget the drudgery of design, implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, upgrading, and data migration. This will happen behind the scenes. Who thinks about flipping electrical signals in silicon these days? We operate at a higher level of abstraction. Implications of an AI codegen revolution + The amount of software created increases by at least 3 orders of magnitude. Likely much more like 5-10 orders of magnitude. + The concept of “charging for apps” feels dated. If everyone can conjure anything into existence for pennies, why “buy” when you can “create”? “Make me a free version of app ABC”. + The importance of modern app stores declines. Non-technical users create micro-apps and use them. For this to work it needs to be simple. This future might look like something of a super-app for user-generated micro-apps. Or they get deployed as PWAs. + How data gets stored and shared could get radically reimagined. + These micro-app/remix concepts may themselves become the basis for a new type of app store. If this were a company, I think it would likely become the most important company in AI. + A new layer of collaboration commoditizes adjacent AI layers. A hyperscaler could attempt to build this layer, but it seems as likely as someone new doing it. At this point it's all up for grabs. If you’re building something like this DM me — I’d love to play with your project and give feedback!

Has anyone built a simple way to cross post to Nostr/Twitter/Threads?

the world has gotten so crazy the only thing that seems real to me any more is fake Internet money 🤷🏼‍♂️

what are your favorite “other things”?

missing Nostrasia (wife in surgery tomorrow) sending good vibes to all my Nostriches 🤙

podcasts have the energy of the early internet to me

i love algorithms i hate being forced to use any particular one

back in SF, can’t wait to record again with @Max soon! 🎤 🎤

we need something like friend.tech for nostr/bitcoin. great way to onboard people to PWAs

X (formerly Twitter)

DK (@dksf) on X

I consider https://t.co/TtBzkCoJ4E a success if it shows everyone how good PWAs can be