12 sats \ 6 replies \ @thrown 5 May 2022 \ on: Hey stackers it's Paul from Sphinx & Stakwork, AMA bitcoin
I posted a comment earlier about Sphinx here: #24242
But my main question is what is the current status of the project?
  • Apple won’t allow the iOS app so it’s stuck in testflight?
  • When i try to make a new account, it prompts me to buy a light node for $3USD but it doesn’t work? You’re not selling nodes anymore?
  • The last blog post was 10 months ago and it explained an extremely ambitious roadmap/vision. Yet I haven’t seen an app update in a very long time. Where are you at in terms of the roadmap today?
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36 sats \ 5 replies \ @paul OP 5 May 2022
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.
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36 sats \ 1 reply \ @paul OP 5 May 2022
The latest changes we've made are to add video support and substack medium. You can link tribes to Github now. We got rid of slack/skype and use sphinx internally for all of our work.
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36 sats \ 0 replies \ @paul OP 5 May 2022
Once you consume your content outside of youtube and apple, you need a recommendation engine. We're now working on that piece: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1B8OMZiewvQuB5hlBPliy1S1CSYOxAtVH/view
We're indexing almost 200 bitcoin podcast episodes a week. The goal will be to let you enter a topic like "BIP 119" and see every clip related to the topic without having to sort through the shows.
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @thrown 5 May 2022
I was hoping I could just buy a node from you all. It’s asking a lot for new users to run a node before they’ve even seen what the app looks like, how well it functions, or what you can do with it.
Maybe you can figure out a way to let people try the app out without running their own node. Maybe you can just make some product video tours instead.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @paul OP 6 May 2022
The best option here is to get a 'lite node' which is custodial, but easy to try out. The user gets some sats to start and can message immediately. The message content is always encrypted on the phone so meta data is on our server, but content can't be read.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @thrown 6 May 2022
the app said there were none available. it made me think the company was like a ghost town
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