gm, good people. โ
Shawn
_@shawnyeager.com
npub1clk6...pup9
Working toward a future built on Bitcoin.
Helping founders on the same mission.
Hosting trustrevolution.co.
Coming soon to the US.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/1061951895900047
The new White Lies album is an absolute banger. #tunestr
Saturday night launch. ๐
Nostr's UX problem isn't a secret.
30-day retention trends to 0%. Daily active users stuck at ~10k. Posts disappear. Followers vanish when you switch apps. Every app feels like beta software.
I've spent 2+ years arguing that great UX wins. So I designed a meta-study, threw a few hundred dollars at Claude, and put together what the evidence indicates.
tl;dr: Ship working experiences, then add features.
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6 critical patterns backed by 100+ citations:
โฃ Onboarding, content discovery, core interactions
โฃ Performance, progressive complexity, cross-client consistency
โฃ Anti-patterns to avoid + validation checklists
I'm not a designer, but I know what good looks like. This is opinionated, evidence-based, and focused on retention.
What am I missing? What did I get wrong?
Send PRs this way:
cc: @HoloKat @elsat @daniele

UX Patterns for Nostr Apps
Evidence-informed patterns for building Nostr apps people actually use
GitHub
GitHub - shawnyeager/nostr-ux-patterns: Evidence-informed UX patterns for building Nostr apps people actually use
Evidence-informed UX patterns for building Nostr apps people actually use - shawnyeager/nostr-ux-patterns
gm, good people. โ
Last night's opening act was new to me; so good live and criminally underrated. #tunestr
gm, good people. โ Happy Friday.
