Gotta take it easy on the addiction cowboy but good to understand how it works.
Dopamaine hit is pretty powerful. The feeling of success makes a diff. Wordle is a simple game that got millions of people in - easy to solve, gives quick dopamine hit, keeps people coming back for more. In Walter Isaacson’s book, when Steve Jobs started the apps, gamers were the initial user magnet.
Seratonin is powerful too - that’s why people love giving, love learning. And why informative content creation is a hit. Pair this with zaps, wham. And just the right amount keeps away mania.
Oxytocin is wonderful, people who go to Nostr conferences have a different form of connection and gentleness with each other.
Using all this to create a satisfied user is wonderful. Using this to create monsters and zombies are not good.
People also would love platform they can advance themselves. Use cases enables this. 100 diff innovation has 100 diff niche users to start with.
For example, say an indie music platform developer creates his program on Nostr - he/she can’t just assume people will miraculously start using it. He/she needs to go out there and knock on doors and reach out to as many artist.
Am I fabricating this shit ? This actually happened during Punk / Hacker era in 70s and 80s post beatnik. That’s how mix tape started - and more and more independent musicians broke away from labels. Imagine if they had zaps.
But devs cannot keep building stuff and then stay on this platform and whine that no users show up lah. My eyes, ears can bleed from the whining. Obviously users are not gonna show up. Have to go hunt for them.
And no, you don't need some fancy marketing. Just figure out who your target market is and reach out them.
It’s the same for bitcoin as well. Bitcoin has all the potential to be global currency but can only be it, if users use it.
And the same for all innovation. All entrepreneurs have this problem. I do too. No users, no business
And out of everyone they hunt, 90% will fade away but the 10% early adopters will remain and are precious. Keep hunting, keep fine tuning target market, keep growing. Eventually Nostr will explode.
I didn’t stop coming frequently to Nostr because men attack women (women attack men and other women just as nasty here). But I stop coming here frequently because of how privileged and spoilt devs are here. Maybe someday when I’m at a better state myself and won’t feel so bad anymore, I’ll come back more frequently.
I know there are a lot of funds by
@jack because he genuinely believes in this. Quite honestly having Jack as safety net only means devs, innovators and entrepreneurs can try like mad to make Nostr work. But surprising its quite the opposite here and I don't understand why. I hope Nostr doesn’t become a government agency-like establishment where everyone gets too comfortable and can get money until they retire.
Open source innovation is different. I think so far only Will has come close to understanding the ecosystem - and that’s because he has guts to put himself out there, try and fail and try again. But if devs don’t try to hunt for users, not wanting to learn beyond what they know, too damn egoistic, and think everyone should worship the ground they walk on, then no matter what drug you wanna infuse users into snorting, it just won’t work.
