I've been working 28 hours a week on the weekends as a Direct service professional, assisting adults with autism and intellectual disabilities. I've brought my laptop freaks. There's enough downtime for me to work on obtaining certifications online, posts to SN and Nostr, and work on my coding project Nostr Run Club.
I work with 2 normies on saturday and sunday, and had the bright idea of pitching my app to them. Here is how the conversation went.
Hustle: Hey do you guys want to see what i'm working on?
Normie 1: Sure....
Normie 2: "Comes around to curiously investigate"
***The Pitch
Hustle: Alright, so.....what social media do you use?
Normie 1: Instagram.
Hustle: Alright so....I'm making a running app. Imagine logging in with instagram, and seeing a feed of all of the runners and all of your friends. Now, what music streaming service do you use?
Normie 1: Pandora
Normie 2: Spotify
Hustle: Cool, so imagine seeing your pandora and Spotify liked songs and playlists in the running app. So the app can track your run, its connected to your social media and streaming platform, and people can send you small donations congratulating you for the run.
Normie 1 and 2: Ahh, that's cool.
Normie 2: But why would people send you money? Oh? I think I've seen something like it where people send you a star and the star can be redeemed for like 99 cents, or they send you points and the app rewards you for points.
Hustle: Nah. That parts already figured out, I'm just having trouble getting the music from "Spotify" to play, and then I'll release it into the wild, that's pretty much my hustle.
And that was the conversation, it left me thinking about a few things.
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V4V The concept is extremely familiar to me. I say good Morning I get 50 cents. I give 35 cents to other GM freaks and keep it pushing. Its normal. But for them the concept seemed so strange, they were looking for some solution or explanation on why people would just give someone else money for seemingly nothing. When the solution is already here, just not evenly distributed or promoted or adopted. Likely because the normies are still existing in the paradox of card companies and ravenous third party intermediaries imposing their cut.
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The broken social media landscape of disconnected walled gardens I was thinking normie one would say Facebook, if asked normie 2 would've said snapchat, Tik Tok, Instagram etc. for music they could've said apple music, tidal, Youtube music etc.
I see Nostr as a highway that connects all of these guys, and instead of buying multiple cars to travel on different streets, you have one car that you use to travel across the country.
- The tact required to pitch ideas like Nostr and bitcoin
I used to work at bank of America and was tasked to sell credit cards without saying the word credit card.....
I would say "Hello, good sir/mam, have you thought about getting rewarded for your daily purchases??"
I found myself in a familiar situation, introducing them to Nostr without using the word Nostr and introducing them to bitcoin without using the word inevitable. The experience was stranger for me than it was for them, they left thinking "Ahh, thats neat" I walked away from the conversation eager to get notify the freaks.
In Conclusion,
The interaction gave me a few interesting insights:
- We'll need to bridge the conceptual gap between traditional and new payment paradigms.
- The importance of focusing on user benefits rather than technical details
- The market opportunity for solutions that unify fragmented digital services
- The value of strategic communication that meets users where they are
Successful adoption of new technologies like Nostr and Bitcoin requires careful attention to user education and communication, focusing on practical benefits rather than technical features. The positive reception to the core concept, even without understanding the underlying technology, shows huge potential for mainstream adoption when presented appropriately.
Thanks,
Hustle