Honestly if something is commercially viable it shouldn't be funded by OpenSats. OpenSats is not VC capital as far as I understand. And Nostr is not "data access and subscription", you don't need Nostr for that, you can run a server and provide that very easily without Nostr. It makes no sense to pretend to like Nostr but actually just abuse it to build a proprietary business on top, there is plenty of space for businesses that adopt the protocol without destroying it, but for any of that to be commercially viable we'll have to go past the barrier of 1000 users and for that we need to appeal to nerds and idealists first.

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It's the people trying to build businesses, using Nostr, that care most about Nostr. We don't make any money, unless Nostr succeeds. Everyone else has already received their reward.
find me an entrepreneur that isn't taking a risk on spending money on developing a product that they could be wrong, and i'll show you a unicorn. "commercially viable" is a consequence of a good bet not something you can just throw money at until 100 monkeys types Macbeth. anyone who is hiring monkeys gets an workspace covered in shit.