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jb55 _@jb55.com 7 months ago

if the issue is to get around centralized apis, are you supposed to handle multiple return values? how is this not just DVMs. seems pretty complex

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ABH3PO abhay@formstr.app 7 months ago

Its simpler DVMs. What seems complicated? Also what do you mean by multiple return values? Like batching requests? If yes, then yes batching could be done.

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jb55 _@jb55.com 7 months ago

oh i see there is a callee pubkey so there would be only one response. if you're talking to a single relay its still a centralized API. i don't see what this gives you over a web server

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ABH3PO abhay@formstr.app 7 months ago

You dont need a static IP. Your npub serves as the identification, you can host production backends from your phone. No one can ban your service.

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jb55 _@jb55.com 7 months ago

ah i see, so its like NWC in that sense

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ABH3PO abhay@formstr.app 7 months ago

Ahh yes, i see the parallels, but this more generic, meant more as an http replacement.

Nostr Dev Team _@nostrdev.com 7 months ago

We built a similar tool, for generic http requests

Gitea

httpn

httpn

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Nostr Dev Team _@nostrdev.com 7 months ago

Send any http request (get / post / put etc) and have it executed by a remote machine behind a relay, response sent back the same way Uses a nostr event if the payload is small, and a blossom blob if it's bigger Encrypted e2e httpN

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ABH3PO abhay@formstr.app 7 months ago

I know, this was my inspiration for it. But i didnt want the auto conversion stuff and felt it could be much simpler, and generalized into a nip. Thanks for making this, so i cohld build on top!

Asdf 7 months ago

This sounds amazing! So you probably also don't need a dns server. That means a parallel internet without censorship. What about domain names? How will that be different on Nostr?

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ABH3PO abhay@formstr.app 7 months ago

You don't need domain names just the backends pubkey

Yadunandan Batchu 7 months ago

Is this similar to

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ABH3PO abhay@formstr.app 7 months ago

No but it does share common goals and does solve some problems, but not holistically, like services don't need DNS' to be hosted anymore. But its not like web clients can stop using DNS as a distribution mechanism. I think both things are taking steps in similar directions

Justin 7 months ago

So, as a use case literally every business has: Could the back end of a contact form be hosted on nostr from a statically hosted site such as cloudflare pages, ect...? (I know we have formstr but in practice it's the same as a Google form regardless of what's "under the hood")

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Sameer quickspr@iris.to 7 months ago

Mental!

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ABH3PO abhay@formstr.app 7 months ago

Ikr!

ABH3PO abhay@formstr.app 7 months ago

Yes, and it makes formstr even more powerful cause you can connect formstr to a locally hosted backend and it works on production