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194 sats \ 3 replies \ @optimism 25 Mar \ parent \ on: Stacker Saloon

I'm going to be brutally honest, but it's not personal.

  1. SN had a built-in LN wallet. A really great one. Now it doesn't anymore, because custodial. What particular feature does a replit-coded iOS app bring to the table that does not have the same constraints in terms of legal, risk and compliance?
  2. If one were to put something on the Apple store that touches finance in any way, especially custodially, you won't even get to the point of the overlord punishing you. Apple will just send you a list that basically asks you for all the state licenses and some FinCEN thingies like MSB licenses, often a banking license or one from your partner. Do you have that kind of funding? If yes, why are you using replit and not professionals?
  3. If anyone were thinking that on its own, replit or any bot can build you a non-custodial solution that is better than what Zeus, Blixt or Shockwallet offers, then I suggest reconsidering that position. It cannot. It will even be hard when someone that has written an actual secure wallet and has experience maintaining it, to prompt a bot so that it can write it from scratch.

Do play with replit, but maybe it would help to not waste your time, unless you have a couple 100 BTC to spend on this, of course.

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101 sats \ 2 replies \ @BlokchainB 25 Mar

Points well taken. Here is my response

  1. I want to build the app for myself
  2. It is something I am passionate about to help me grow my skill set as I learn to program and build a mobile app
  3. I don’t think the masses would use my app
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73 sats \ 1 reply \ @optimism 25 Mar

Okay, so then the whole "normies" argument falls out of this. That's fine then.

Re: 3. I'm telling you: the masses won't even be able to install your app, haha. I've dealt with Apple on multiple occasions, also in (large) corporate settings, and Apple dictates its ecosystem. It's that simple. They're the boss and they enforce compliance with their rules.

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101 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 25 Mar

Hahahaha. One can dream of getting millions of users accessing SN via an iOS app to help grow the site.

But my reality is learning how to program making an iOS app and engaging with the SN code base.

Plus long ago some stacker was able to get bsats which was an SN clone on iOS! I used to use it before the dev stopped maintaining it

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