I sat down today after Nostrasia with @Max DeMarco to talk about his needs as a creator and entrepreneur. I will build the best possible product I can to make him and amazing creators like him very happy. It won’t be about censorship-resistance, or about nostr or bitcoin. It will leverage these as tools. As building constructs that fade into the background. It will be about Max and the people the product serves. Time to get serious.

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nostr and lightning products that are about either generally fail (at least at getting any serious adoption). Lightning or nostr by itself are irrelevant - what they solve is. Nobody needs to know they are using lightning, what they need to know is that a product solves their problems. Us techies are focusing on technical aspects of everything way too much and dont understand that things we're building need to solve actual business or personal problems. Anything outside of protocol and infrastructure development is rarely about solving technical issues, its about addressing problems. And users experience is not magically better because you throw bitcoin/nostr in the mix, nor should or are willing to sacrifice tons of usability just because decentralized/sovereign/bitcoin/p2p etc.
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Waterdan 2 years ago
After seeing your talk in person, I am now assertive that you will make great products. Regretted that we didn’t have chance to talk in depth.
I would have loved to talk more with you. I regret we didn’t get more time as well. I am also confident you will build performant things that matter
Nice, I also think it's time to use this tech like any other tech, when it makes sense for a specific project/situation.