"Look Mom, I built something!" I'm working on a project to sell 100 BitAxes to our podcast community. The goal is to connect each of us to our own @Public-Pool instance. My aim is to keep things simple. I’ve designed a straightforward page where customers can enter their address, specify the quantity they want, and settle the invoice with Bitcoin. No frills, just a smooth user experience. I also wanted to try coding with Cursor AI and Aider, which are agentic coding tools that help you write code. This was also an excellent time to connect the @npub1ex7m...vyt9 API to my @npub155m2...dcvg.

The outcome is pretty cool. In one evening, I built the webpage, connected it to the BTCPay API to generate an invoice, stored the customer data in the BTCPay database, and added the STRIKE API. I tested it in the video below. You can see that I paid the invoice using @ZEUS connected to my node. The sats appear instantly in my Strike wallet. I can even choose to receive them in fiat if I want to. This is just one of the many possibilities at the moment. With more and more people and companies building on Lightning, the potential for innovation is limitless.

As @jack mallers said, You can’t beat open source.