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⚡️POW - 138 th day on Nostr, when everything's going well I've been transparent, now I have to do the same when things aren't going so well. As a reminder, all the work is done manually, no automation! 🔸 7717 Notes 🔸 5377 Replies ➤ 7717 / 138 = 55.92 publications per day ➤ 55.92 / 24 = 2.33 publications per hour ➤ 13094 / 138 = 94.884 traces of activity per day In terms of financial return, here are the figures: 🔸 1,135,000 sats in total. ➤ 1135000 / 138 = 8,224.638 sats per working day ➤ 8224.638 / 55.92 = 147.0786 sats per publication ➤ 8224.63 / 8 = 1,028.0788 sats per hour worked. That's the equivalent of about $1 an hour of work. For your information, in the last two weeks it's clearly plummeted to around 2000 sats per day (I haven't yet identified the cause, but there are several hypotheses, such as the fact that I'm no longer "new" or a "drop in interest"). To sum up, I'm clearly beginning to realize that it's going to be very difficult to make a living from it, at least by 2025 I consider the goal to be impossible. To be able to make a living from it, I was talking about it this morning. I've calculated 50,000 sats per day, if I maintain a cadence of around 60 publications, that would be 833.33 sats per publication, which sounds enormous, but if we show this with almost 7,000 subscribers, we can say that it's feasible. Let me explain: if readers zap with 1 zap each, assuming that only 1/4 of my subscribers see my publication, we're at 1,750, and if only half of them zap with 1 sats, we're at 875 sats. So seen like that, it's achievable, but it's only theory... The reality is that only a handful of people (who wish to remain anonymous for the most part) support me in a consistent way, which "compensates" a little for the "inactive mass". On the human side, it's my best experience of any platform. There's a great deal of benevolence, but I think that goes hand in hand with intelligence. Intelligent people are basically good people, and you can see that here. In terms of user experience, I'm having a bit of trouble keeping up with notifications and posting from time to time, but nothing catastrophic. Sorry I took so long, but it feels good to share this adventure with you, who knows, maybe in a while I'll be the first Nostrich to make a living out of it, and I'll be able to use my Proof of Work publications to testify. In any case, I've achieved the biggest Nostr speed run in the history of the protocol, I think. Well, I don't know, maybe others have done better before me.... Thank you all, for your support every day I know that some are eagerly awaiting my publications and that makes me proud! I love you ❤️ Our next target is 10,000 notes, by which time we'll be updating you in a little more detail. image

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↩ replying to Copinmalin
I didn’t know you were doing all of this manually, nor did I know about the experiment side of this… that’s super impressive. I honestly thought it was an automated account. Idk how much this would help, but you could put a little note at the bottom of each of your posts explaining “this account is NOT automated. It is manually curated as an experiment to see if one can generate a living on zaps alone. If you find my work valuable, consider giving value back.” If I didn’t know it was manually curated, for sure many others don’t know either. While it can feel very weird, the “ask” in V4V is important. Unrelated to V4V, my mom always said “you may as well ask. The worst thing anyone can tell you is ‘no’” Anyway, keep up the great work.
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You have good content and some magic sauce also. V4V has actually worked well for you, despite the reality of ends not actually being met. I am impressed. However, I wonder if there could be more opportunities for you to leverage this content and the traffic you receive?
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↩ replying to FLASH
I’ve been posting a lot about how sovereignty is as good for business as for end users. Nostr is a protocol where businesses can build sovereignty respecting apps … without sacrificing profit or IP. This is a new paradigm, that welcomes business apps to offload more and more of their “non essential” black box data onto the public network, while simultaneously offering them tools to harvest and make use of this same “free to access” data submitted from other apps. It’s a paradigm where businesses gain trust from the public network, simply by being good at running their business. B2B services and an ecosystem of small business apps. This is the new paradigm. Wonder how content creators will fit into this new paradigm … adding a different kind of value than in the “black box” or “attention economy” paradigms?
Nice, great job! Indeed, your profile has grown the most on Nostr, and that’s a result of your hard work. You post A LOT, congrats! I also do everything manually and haven’t hit 1 million sats yet, but that’s coming soon. For comparison, I’m now earning an average of 1k sats per day, making about 8-10 posts per day, which is roughly 100 sats per note on average. That’s about 30k per month. Compared to other social networks, it’s still low for the number of followers. On TikTok, for example (with a 22k follower account), I make $230 to $280 per day with TikTok Shop, but there are some caveats since I’ve lost a few accounts, etc. Anyway, I see great potential in Nostr and I’m grateful for you sharing your performance. Appreciate it.
↩ replying to YODL
I believe Nostr will perform like YouTube but with some monetization improvements. There’s no shadowban, a more qualified and niche audience, and the advantage of being decentralized, so you won’t lose monetization on certain content for violating specific policies. Plus, Nostr has the potential to be a WeChat, likely surpassing all other social networks because it’s extremely easy and satisfying to log into any site using NIP-07.
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↩ replying to Fascinating
Thanks for the feedback you're sharing here, and respect for manual labor! Anyway the automation is directly noticeable I think. I do publish a lot because I'm starting from ZERO. I'm neither a celebrity nor an OG of bitcoin or anything else, I got here on my own so I work very hard every day to earn your trust and I promise I'll continue to share the behind-the-scenes of flash with you 🫡
choose a way that convenient to make money for you . I sometimes selling secondhand things on the local market and get cash . no post on line , no lighting payment , no cash registered , just selling stuff on antique Sunday market . life doesn't have to be boring with using one kind of payment all the time and many resources outthere in real life to make living .
I share your sentiment, although no where near your reach. Got some traction initially on nostr with my art, but something seemed to change and of late it's been crickets. My paintings take so long to make, but I'd still rather be doing my work than scrolling primal 😜 I'm following you now though!