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Re: NOSTR FUNDING.. In my humble opinion, people should seek profit. We do have a lot of funding available from OpenSats (new grants approved every week), HRF, Angels and VCs. But they won't make you "rich". PHILANTHROPY and/or VC, are great means to get boosted but are not sustainable long term. (aside from protocol and research work, which is basically academic work and take the academic philanthropy route) Profit is freedom, profitable ppl don't need to ask for permission. SUSTAINABLE and ETHICAL revenue positive businesses last generations. And very satisfying if you don't mind me saying. Timing is EVERYTHING! We are ultra-early in nostr, almost too early. Almost everything you see around you won’t be here in the same shape/form in a year or two. Find ways to cockroach the early days, survive another day. Build expertise, build value, build IP, build relationships. All this fun and pain of the early days can have very good returns for those who survive. I'm here (and many others), If you need help, advice or just a capitalist to scream at. 😘

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i think nostr devs should stay frugal for a while simply because there are not many users. the controlled opposition is uniting and this means people wont flock to nostr. of course i want to believe that they are uniting because of nostr but this may be a biased over thinking. freemium model may work. the reason i don't do freemium is because i like my freedom and don't want to deal with people who pay and things going wrong and then trying to refund etc. right now it is best effort and it is working fine. but if i am killing the economy by providing the relays for free, i may change the model and do some coding to add premium users, if a lot of minds think there should be an economy forming already.
This. Under appreciated is the freedom and sovereignty that comes from being cash flow positive in your ventures from this flows choices - *your* choices without being beholden to any one or anything .. be bold, be stupid, succeed or fail, grow or stagnate .. it’s now all before you 🧡
If some venture can't be made profitable, then people don't want it. Protocol and research work are best dealt with by patronage. We don't want such things to be proprietary, and that means donating directly or donating to a patronage charity like OpenSats. Other things are best paid for. Hosting, client hosting, websites, etc. Cost can be worked out, but the right price isn't free. Having a plug and play setup where when you zap anyone, you also zap those services you care to use as a percentage set by you needs to be universal. An example: I zap 100 sats to @DETERMINISTIC OPTIMISM 🌞 for this post, but instead of all 100 sats being sent to NVK, 2 sats are sent to my client, 1 is sent to OpenSats, and 97 are sent to @DETERMINISTIC OPTIMISM 🌞 because I have 2% set for client and 1% for funding patrons. Can we figure out a way to make this happen. Even better if the client can be adjusted based on what the client is at the time of usage.