We do things a bit odd here: "MVB" minimum viable beta. Try to burn as little devel and support time while you try out ideas. These things take time to build on btc, so keep burn low and "days alive" long. We have zero W2 employees including me and no spending commitment greater than 30 days.

We started with mainly image processing, but now we are getting much more difficult natural language processing tasks that we can barely do. We want to get into full process automation. We just onboarded a new customer workflow that ends in an online notarization of the document!

I am shocked there isn't a version of OnlyFans or a lightning poker site.

I'm no longer religious, but I've read the bible 27 times before I left for college :) I read "The Goal" by Eliyahu Goldratt in high school and it's amazing for redesigning processes. Adam Smith's less famous book on life "How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life". Guns Germs/Steel was an eye opener. I read lightly, but high volume.

I am an adult onset hunter and have been mainly bird and bowhunting for +20 years. Start with shotgun for quail or pheasant. It's harder to start with a static rifle shot and learn to swing the gun, easier to go from swing to static. Get your hunters ed now since after covid some states are doing it online and temp not requiring the field day onsite. We're having a "Bitcoiners learn to hunt" weekend this fall.

We've had 30 years to explore the limits of packet data networks that can't require value (http/smtp). With lightning, we can now try models where context and value traverse the same network. Follow the discussions about free speech on twitter with this in mind and it becomes clear that decentralized + paid is the best answer.

For folks asking "is messaging an abuse of the lightning network", the premise of the question ignores the point of a fee based network. If you pay the requested routing fee, it's by definition a desired use of the network.

Most recently we are making improvements to the key exchange process during the setup process and other security improvements. We'll move to other front end soon. We're also seriously lacking in app devs, so spread the word!

Delly! great to see you here on stacker news. From our support questions, I'd say that 99% of the people on stak have never owned bitcoin or even seen it as an option. The #1 question we get on support from new users is "what is a satoshi and what can I do with them?". "Freedom to Earn" is the most viral thing I've seen.

We're offering free cell phones & service in PH and El Salvador (we need to fix that on the site). Task workers can live anywhere, but we have a long waiting list right now. We're always looking for more sources of tasks from corporations that need help.

It's been a ton of fun for the whole team and we're just getting rolling. I feel like we've built the basic blocks, now it's time to grow.

You can run a sphinx server on umbrel, raspiblitz or mynode. We also have a custodial 'lite node' we host for people to try it out. Sphinx is open source so you can embed it as an messenger in an app. I think there's a gaming company that already did this.

We're migrating to the new site at the .ai address

I hadn't seen that before, but will take a look, my net at this hotel is circa 1990 speed.

We do weekly updates to both apps, but apple has to be through testflight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/QoaCkJn6 We make lite nodes available pretty often, but we'd rather have people run home nodes.

"Any advice on how to bring on devs from outside of bitcoin??" The question here is bringing in the "right" devs. Eth and solana are a helpful filtering function for bitcoin. They spend big $$ doing developer outreach. The small percentage that smell bs are the one's we want. The one's that stay we get to avoid at zero cost. The goal of the ticket marketplace we're testing at the people.sphinx.chat page is to let devs try out earning sats for code before quitting their day job.