121 sats \ 9 replies \ @Rsync25 28 Dec 2023 \ on: jb55: "This will likely be the last year of damus" nostr
It is possible with subscription plans, ads and other things.
Have option integrate AI for offer new services.
Anyway, this depend each Nostr client and business model
What would that mean in this context?
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Each Nostr client have his own business model for revenue.
I don't know what will happen on Damus :)
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I'm curious what "true fans" would look like on one nostr client vs another. The idea makes sense for a band, or a writer. How to differentiate this type of software in a way that people would feel passionate about it?
Kind of like an Emacs vs vim thing.
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Kind of like an Emacs vs vim thing.
I think this is right, but harder to measure for Damus because there's relatively little UX lock-in and the only product on offer is UX.
IMHO True fans are easiest to measure as paying customers. SN has a wip true fan metric of daily spenders (and we are well off kk's 1000).
If I were Will, I'd attempt to find a complementary service Damus could provide. Something like Obsidian's Sync comes to mind - run me a personal relay and make my "work" durable and available.
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I'm curious what "true fans" would look like on one nostr client vs another. The idea makes sense for a band, or a writer. How to differentiate this type of software in a way that people would feel passionate about it?
Marketing, community and show why your Nostr client is unique and different from others.
I have already tested several Nostr Clients over these months, and each one has its own differences.
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It is possible with subscription plans,
Subscriptions might make sense like Mutiny is doing (/cc @benthecarman @TonyGiorgio) but I am not sure if this is sustainable long-term since afaik, it relies on people wanting to give value back. They don't have to give value back by paying for a subscription. But maybe I am wrong and this doesn't matter much if V4V really catches on.
ads
I think ads are out of the question since that means you need to invade the privacy of your users (so you can give them targeted ads) which is a thing we wanted to move away from afaik. Or do you mean ads like we run on SN which are integrated into the platform and directly pay the users? But not sure how this would work on nostr.
I could see how nostr clients run ads but this would mean that these clients are very popular (that's why companies want to run ads on that client). But either
a) this means nostr is centralizing since there are only few popular clients
or
b) users will just move to a different client without ads
Haven't thought much about this though.