🙅🏻‍♂️ negative for the .btc - makes me think of Stacks. Also adding the name to the zonefile as a TXT record is quite manual and doesn't scale.

I don't know of any tutorials unfortunately. I used my lightning node + Polar (https://lightningpolar.com/) and started tinkering. If you already know how to build apps and web app, the easiest way would be to use a wrapped node like BTCPay Server or LNBits, and start talking to their APIs to create/receive transactions. That would probably be much easier to start.

yes we'll probably add those one by one

Figuring out how to talk to a lightning node and creating a package for LNURL-Auth was challenging, but to be honest I love it. Much better than integrating with Stripe where you need to spend weeks figuring out their rule for accepting money in different countries. The feeling you have of owning the money with no intermediaries is worth all the effort in the world!

thank you!

thanks for your feedback. what sort of integration are you referring to? Other calendars like Proton Calendar?

Out next integration might be Zoom or Teams so that virtual calls are generated on the fly and not manually.

I was thinking of adding a Leaderboard. might be nice! We don't categorize users though, so it would be hard to know what they're offering from a condensed view

I would love to see it used in more traditional brick&mortar businesses as a booking system where they could change a small fee to get some compensations for no-shows or manage fully their bookings.

Essentially any service business could use LNCal as a booking system. Seeing the big growth of business that accept bitcoin on https://btcmap.org/ makes me kinda positive about this.

I'd like to see more apps that give the opportunity to people to earn Bitcoin. That's the main reason I started LNCal. It's very important to create use cases for people to interact with Bitcoin in a simple KYC free manner.

I'd also like to see more low level products that help devs integrate Lightning more easily with web apps!

so far it's mostly people related to the bitcoin ecosystem and some from the wider crypto. it's mostly people that are known in the bitcoin twitter sphere with some outlier more focused on consultancy. This is a function of how widespread Bitcoin Lightning and LNCal are of course. The more Bitcoiners demand being paid in Bitcoin the more different industries we'll see joining in these apps.

yes the google calendar integration satisfies 90% of the user base. Unfortunately, as you say the privacy trade off with Google is alarming! We'll also look into potential integrations with Proton Calendar if enough users demand it!

haha second time I hear about this. I might need to start paying attention. tbh that would mean spinning up new infrastructure and maintaining it. I need to make sure there is enough demand before committing to it, but I am aware of it. thanks :)

On a positive note: how forgiving and inclusive the bitcoin ecosystem is. People push you, root for you and want you to succeed.

On negative note: it's still early day for the LN, and specifically all the features and functionalities for integrating it with the Web are basically missing. LNURL helped a lot to get this (and many others) projects started.

The integration for the web/mobile should be priority in my mind if we want this to succeed.

I wanted to learn more about Lightning and just reading books and articles didn't cut it. Before I knew about Alby I wanted to create something similar to Metamask (in browser wallet) for lightning but that was taken :). Then eventually the idea of a public calendar + lightning for people to book your time hit me and I have never been more focused on a product since then.

congrats @k00b, awesome project. well deserved! upwards and onwards! 🚀

thank you!

thank you so much !

thank you very much 🙏🏻