I was initially confused by the idea of microapps, because all examples I heard were about social media use case - "edit profile", "edit contact list", "edit relays" etc.
But think about this: we can have nostr events for _any_ data type. Which means _any_ app could be a Nostr app.
Why would you want to make all apps work over Nostr? Because Nostr is the infrastructure for an app ecosystem, much better than the dominant ones like Android/iOS.
- You have an open "cloud database" with a standard API
- You have authenticity and tamper-proof of all events (documents, files, records)
- You have well defined data types (event kinds)
- You have a decentralized monetization (LN)
- You have web of trust as a potential solution to app safety issues
- You have shared open network effect for the benefit of any new app
None of the existing app platforms offers anything like this.
Nostr as Twitter alternative is fun. Nostr as iOS alternative is crazy fun!
Tell a random app dev that Nostr is a Twitter replacement, and they'll probably yawn. Tell them it's a new app platform, and they'll start paying attention.
We win the devs - Nostr wins. Right?
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Should follow him if you don't, he did the nostr.band
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You don't have to be a developer to contribute, @🐈 helped many nostr apps with design and designed many concepts waiting for a dev to implement them.
I agree. But I think we need a filesystem-like API for writing path-value pairs and listing directories. Something like gundb
Nostr is not going to work as a universal data layer if every list (directory) update overwrites the previous list and every new application needs to define its own event kinds that relays may need to integrate.
GitHub
GitHub - amark/gun: An open source cybersecurity protocol for syncing decentralized graph data.
An open source cybersecurity protocol for syncing decentralized graph data. - amark/gun
Well I didn't mean that you should write all internal app state to nostr, just the high level stuff that needs interoperability and discovery. And relays usually support new event kinds out of the box, that is the whole point of them.
Would this help?
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Basically NIP 78. Apps should use 30078 for key-valye storage in tags.

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nips/78.md at master · nostr-protocol/nips
Nostr Implementation Possibilities. Contribute to nostr-protocol/nips development by creating an account on GitHub.
Are there any app like substack yet?
Long-form content? Habla.news
Or do you mean something more sophisticated?
Yeah, longer form articles. I’ll check out habla 👍
Here is one such proposal requiring no NIP

GitHub
GitHub - nobu-maeda/n3xb: naive nostr nym exchange for Bitcoin - An open protocol for decentralized Bitcoin exchanging and a global common order book
naive nostr nym exchange for Bitcoin - An open protocol for decentralized Bitcoin exchanging and a global common order book - nobu-maeda/n3xb
we fix this with
Welcome to – Nextra
Nextra: the next docs builder
I told you humans would fuck up a good thing. Siri’s the virus and a high five. Listen it’s going sideways
Still one of the best explanations of nostr's potential h/t @brugeman
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This
I was initially confused by the idea of microapps, because all examples I heard were about social media use case - "edit profile", "edit contact list", "edit relays" etc.
But think about this: we can have nostr events for _any_ data type. Which means _any_ app could be a Nostr app.
Why would you want to make all apps work over Nostr? Because Nostr is the infrastructure for an app ecosystem, much better than the dominant ones like Android/iOS.
- You have an open "cloud database" with a standard API
- You have authenticity and tamper-proof of all events (documents, files, records)
- You have well defined data types (event kinds)
- You have a decentralized monetization (LN)
- You have web of trust as a potential solution to app safety issues
- You have shared open network effect for the benefit of any new app
None of the existing app platforms offers anything like this.
Nostr as Twitter alternative is fun. Nostr as iOS alternative is crazy fun!
Tell a random app dev that Nostr is a Twitter replacement, and they'll probably yawn. Tell them it's a new app platform, and they'll start paying attention.
We win the devs - Nostr wins. Right?
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GM 🫡
Win the devs, #Nostr wins.
I was initially confused by the idea of microapps, because all examples I heard were about social media use case - "edit profile", "edit contact list", "edit relays" etc.
But think about this: we can have nostr events for _any_ data type. Which means _any_ app could be a Nostr app.
Why would you want to make all apps work over Nostr? Because Nostr is the infrastructure for an app ecosystem, much better than the dominant ones like Android/iOS.
- You have an open "cloud database" with a standard API
- You have authenticity and tamper-proof of all events (documents, files, records)
- You have well defined data types (event kinds)
- You have a decentralized monetization (LN)
- You have web of trust as a potential solution to app safety issues
- You have shared open network effect for the benefit of any new app
None of the existing app platforms offers anything like this.
Nostr as Twitter alternative is fun. Nostr as iOS alternative is crazy fun!
Tell a random app dev that Nostr is a Twitter replacement, and they'll probably yawn. Tell them it's a new app platform, and they'll start paying attention.
We win the devs - Nostr wins. Right?
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THIS 👇👇
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The network is the super app
I was initially confused by the idea of microapps, because all examples I heard were about social media use case - "edit profile", "edit contact list", "edit relays" etc.
But think about this: we can have nostr events for _any_ data type. Which means _any_ app could be a Nostr app.
Why would you want to make all apps work over Nostr? Because Nostr is the infrastructure for an app ecosystem, much better than the dominant ones like Android/iOS.
- You have an open "cloud database" with a standard API
- You have authenticity and tamper-proof of all events (documents, files, records)
- You have well defined data types (event kinds)
- You have a decentralized monetization (LN)
- You have web of trust as a potential solution to app safety issues
- You have shared open network effect for the benefit of any new app
None of the existing app platforms offers anything like this.
Nostr as Twitter alternative is fun. Nostr as iOS alternative is crazy fun!
Tell a random app dev that Nostr is a Twitter replacement, and they'll probably yawn. Tell them it's a new app platform, and they'll start paying attention.
We win the devs - Nostr wins. Right?
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