That's right self-interest beats appealing to altruism.
The questions are:
1. What kind of perks are the best for a certain audience?
2. How to communicate those to the user?
Both are enormously important.
And as nostr:nprofile1qqsv0mdxvznteqns2v8g9d98wy4vm63wx8wq54hcmj244sqfalvhepspz4mhxue69uhhwmm59ehx7um5wgh8qctjw3uszxmhwden5te0wfjkccte9e3xjarrda5kuurpwf4jucm0d5qjqamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwwd5xzamw09jkzem9wghxxmmd9a3ksct50jh069 points out: we don't need to exclusively rely on #v4v .
It's always getting into those important details that shines light on a specific use-case. There's this generic thing called "creator economy".
We inherited this awful term because mass products like FB, Insta, TikTok, and others like to, well, think about their users in masses rather than niche cohorts of people.
To make this clear:
E.g. in freelance ( #satshoot ) I let the freelancer set up the pledged percentage per deal, importantly *before* being accepted by a client.
I also let the freelancer set his own sponsored npub to split the pledged percentage between the app and a selected person as he likes.
Overall pledged sats are conspicuous in profiles.
I believe this model is fine-tuned to my use-case, and it can get pretty far if freelance on Nostr takes off.
This however doesn't mean I couldn't offer extra optional services: the most lucrative to me seems recommendations. If the market is liquid enough it's not feasible to crawl a big network on the client side and calculate the best counterparties, so this could be offered as a premium for someone who cares enough to pay.
That said, a musician for example needs something very different. The design space is infinite.
The real technical hurdles have been demolished with bitcoin and nostr. This was also pointed out in the pod.
Now all that's left is to build the right product for the right people.
