Yes, It's the same author.  The Telegram bot is great, if you don't mind using Telegram, of course.  Nostr is much better for privacy, so Mostro's much better.

I've taken a look at this and it has some very good UX. Was hard to find trades in my currency using Amazon gift cards though, but I'll keep trying it. It's also unfortunate that since it's Telegram you do need to give up a phone number. But I guess that's one of the reasons they're building Mostro.

pertinax

bitcoin

Are gift cards the best we can do for no-KYC lightning trades?

I don't think there is any instance running in production yet.
You could have a taste of it trying [lnp2pBot](https://github.com/lnp2pBot) on Telegram.