Proof of concept: e-mail style subscriptions on Nostr
Problem: I love reading some authors on e.g. Habla News (npub1048…x3nf) or NostReport (npub19md…6vzk) but I tend to miss their updates.
Could I get a DM every time they post something? Or on a weekly basis?
So I built a tiny ~20kb fully functional web component for publishers that:
- scans publisher DM inbox for messages with "subscribe" or "unsubscribe" and builds a subscriptor list on the fly
- sends out a message to the list with a custom message including an URL
- checks sent DMs to warn if that link was already shared
Is kind 4 the way to go? Or could we have a better construct for subs/unsubs, maybe using shared lists?
Please share and let me know!
franzap
npub1wf…3dgh9
2023-09-18 15:36:42
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2023-09-18 15:36:42Event JSON
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