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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.