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SondreB sondreb@nostria.app 4 months ago
I did quit my job to work on open source. One of my project is Nostria, a Nostr app and service provider. If I can reach 1500 paid subscribers I'd be able to sustain this app and service for as long as people want it. It's a challenge though to get there, have used a lot of my savings, did a pre-seed fund raising that was successful, which I'm very grateful for. Yet it takes time and dedication, which I got, but eventually the money runs out. Funding is an issue for a lot of open source, yet finding good business models for them shouldn't be that hard. Many projects only need enough to sustain the developers, not make a lot of extra profits. Truly hope that Nostria will be successful in the long run, it's shaping up to be a very nice Nostr app and the goal is to reach new user adoption.
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dangershony 4 months ago
This is a very good point, and honestly it shouldn't be that hard to get such a number of subscribers, that will be a sustainable model. With v2 of angor we'll bring subscriptions, but I believe that's already available on getalby (also btcpay will soon bring subscriptions)
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CR45H 0V3RR1D3 dademurphy@nostria.app 4 months ago
Subscriptions are fine as long as the customer feels like they are getting something for it or they realize there is a constant cost to the developer that needs to be covered. For example, if your app relies on a server, someone is going to have to pay for the server, and while some developers eat the cost themselves, they shouldn’t be expected to. What people don’t want, is to pay for a subscription that offers nothing other than the continual use of features you already paid for. There are quite a few mastodon clients that do this and it pisses me off.
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SondreB sondreb@nostria.app 4 months ago
Thanks for the feedback! Yes, the value proposition for Premium has to be there and it's something being worked on. Nostria MVP was finalized end of August, after that focused on quality improvements and many new features. The app and service needs to reach a certain point before I want to start pushing for user adoption. That day is coming close very soon 💜
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mar mar@mar101xy.com 2 weeks ago
why wouldn't you just keep your job and work on nostria after work? its seems like a smarter thing to do, also, you should look into creating an app. app are way more successful then websites, browsers are just too slow on mobile. nostria needs an app and not a web wrapper, an actual app is needed
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SondreB sondreb@nostria.app 2 weeks ago
Couldn't have built Nostria on spare-time, this is result of daily grind for 11 months now. Before that I built a Super Community App, unfortunately the technology behind it was shut down, so I had to pivot and then built Nostria. The benefits for web stack are too great to not build even mobile apps on it. Is there anything in particular you'd like to have improved for mobile? I don't see how it would make much difference if Nostria was more native on mobile devices. I am currently working on some tuning for smaller screens.
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mar mar@mar101xy.com 1 week ago
hmm, interesting story. You are a hero. No there isn't any improvements I can think of at the moment. It works fine for me. I'm happy with it.
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