franzap

https://zapstore.dev

Building Zapstore (npub10r8…t2p8) | BA 🇦🇷

Public Key

npub1wf4pufsucer5va8g9p0rj5dnhvfeh6d8w0g6eayaep5dhps6rsgs43dgh9

NIP-05 Address

fran@zapstore.dev

NIP-57 Address

zapstore@getalby.com

Profile Code

nprofile1qqs8y6s7ycwvv36xwn5zsh3e2xemkyumaxnh85dv7jwus6xmscdpcygpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgqglwaehxw309ahx7um5wghx26tww4hxg7nhv9h856t89eehqctrv5akwz3e

Publishing to

relay.primal.net

nostr.einundzwanzig.space

nostr.mutinywallet.com

Author Public Key

npub1wf4pufsucer5va8g9p0rj5dnhvfeh6d8w0g6eayaep5dhps6rsgs43dgh9

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Last Notes

2025-05-12 19:08:12

Default configurations have a strong effect as most node runners just keep them unchanged.
What if we reduced the friction?
We could have a small nostr tool to copy node configs (for relay policy and such) from our web of trust.
https://npub1wf4pufsucer5va8g9p0rj5dnhvfeh6d8w0g6eayaep5dhps6rsgs43dgh9.blossom.band/7c3be5dd91b9731e5670e9ddfe1577a90a0f5cb62feac0bf1764ede0a4daaefb.png

2025-05-12 15:23:25

Results with LLMs seem so random! Hard to say how long a certain task will take.
Trying to vibe code a better website (in SvelteKit and Tailwind) for Zapstore.
Started with Gemini 2.5 Pro (apparently best model ever for coding), it generated a broken site and was going in circles trying to fix. o4 mini currently struggling too.
On the other hand Gemini ported a complex niche Rust library to Dart in two prompts, and I was blown away.

2025-05-09 14:46:30

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Roocode or Cline are plugins, but this is a VSCode fork

2025-05-07 19:40:38

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I would think medications is psychiatry?

2025-05-06 18:30:06

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Deal

2025-05-06 15:33:40

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nak?

2025-05-06 15:32:55

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Agree.
Also Hzrd likes the idea of just linking to the m3u8 instead of having an event replicating it. The m3u8 should have relative paths that are the hashes

2025-05-06 14:42:33

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Segments are usually fixed byte size or duration to optimize for storage and delivery, anchors/chapters are not. They need to be defined separately.

2025-05-06 14:40:11

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I'll build another tool to scour nostr for these events and detect if a segment ever is CP or illegal, so it can be removed.

2025-05-06 14:36:14

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Aren't kind 1063 events just that? Cryptographically links a file with a nostr sig via its hash

2025-05-06 14:20:42

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Failover on the fly sounds even better!
Mine was a shitty proof of concept, you are much more familiar with all this so happy to keep chatting about a potential NIP that makes sense.

2025-05-06 14:17:20

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I'm extremely happy to pay sats for youtube videos I know I can access fast, without ads, and that don't prompt me to "sign in to confirm you're not a bot"

2025-05-06 14:14:17

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I did not implement it to help traffic kiddie porn, wtf. Those people can rot in jail.
By that same token Signal should have a backdoor because its encryption is helping that traffic too. We've seen this argument countless times, it's tiring.

2025-05-06 14:09:34

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I don't pretend I discovered gunpowder. So far, all videos are entire files and that's it. I wanted to showcase and start defining a NIP for HLS because of the insane amount of advantages it unlocks

2025-05-06 14:00:19

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I love your incentive.
Streaming services still have superior UX, we need to work on that.
I want to: find video, watch trailer, sounds good, play and starts streaming and I'm certain it won't stall. Will pay many sats for that.

2025-05-06 01:09:47

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😂 you were rickrolled

2025-05-05 22:57:58

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@nprofile…278z @nprofile…tacz @nprofile…dlnm

2025-05-05 22:57:31

The mind blowing part here is not my unix tool, it is showing that nostr is a practical decentralized alternative to Usenet NZBs (torrents are a different thing)
- Blossom servers do not need to store a whole large video file
- Blossom servers do not need to stream an entire large file
- Blossom operators have plausible deniability in terms of content as the segments are encrypted (and they may not have all) and they don't control the key
- Video clients now have mutiple failovers if a segment is stored in multiple servers
- There are bandwidth savings if the video is not watched entirely
- Content creators can exchange the AES key against a zap
Youtube, here we come.
#nevent1q…rtmd

2025-05-05 19:40:03

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Awesome
@nprofile…6rpa give this project some credits, that search would be much better with Vertex (like it is on npub.world)

2025-05-05 19:21:39

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It was private for some reason. Try again now.

2025-05-05 19:13:52

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#nevent1q…lj45

2025-05-05 19:05:32

Sign any nostr event from the command line with a NIP-07 browser extension. Works great with nak
#nevent1q…zypp

2025-05-05 18:45:39

Trying out NIP07 signing from the command line

2025-05-05 17:41:44

Agents are good at creating small, very focused, composable Unix programs

2025-05-05 17:23:28

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Soon in @nprofile…tdq0 ?

2025-05-05 14:40:03

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Exactly

2025-05-05 14:25:13

I just built a tool.
Video on-demand from encrypted chunks on multiple Blossom servers 🤯
If you have (or can install) nak, nodejs, ffmpeg can you check it works for you?
nak req --id ec1688e87843e8774d1813c371fe65af890be090bdb831f03ceefdd2144ad679 wss://relay.damus.io | npx --yes github:franzaps/n2m3u8 | ffmpeg -f hls -allowed_extensions ALL -protocol_whitelist file,http,https,tcp,tls,crypto,fd -i - -f mpegts - | mpv -
This:
- Fetches a nostr event with hashes of video chunks
- Input into my tool that finds the working chunks in Blossom servers and outputs a HLS playlist
- Input to ffmpeg that decrypts and decodes the stream
- Input to video player. (Replace mpv with vlc or other video player, can also save to a video file)
Volume UP!
#asknostr #blossom #devstr

2025-05-04 00:37:58

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Where is this from?

2025-05-02 17:40:10

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Why don't you just do it? DVMs are pretty simple to implement.

2025-05-02 17:13:47

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Hey Marko! I am not trying to sign anything.
As soon as I log in with Amber I am prompted to sign that random event. (Which I think is not good, I should not be signing if I didn't perform any action but lets put that aside)
Maybe you can't reproduce because you granted Amber access to always sign that event kind?

2025-05-02 16:44:44

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I am no longer involved with Vertex but afaik there are a handful of clients already using it, not zero

2025-05-02 13:48:20

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I built it that way because speed is more important than interoperability for npub.world which obviously will never use any other DVM as it's a Vertex product.

2025-05-01 15:38:20

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Hard to say! I also DMd you. Can you DM me again at @nprofile…tdq0 just in case?

2025-04-26 15:18:05

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Sure but a camera far away is better than a camera too close

2025-04-25 20:34:15

Try to leave the world more beautiful than you found it

2025-04-25 17:36:39

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Wen #peatstr #communikey @nprofile…je4n ?

2025-04-25 17:11:47

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The only issue with refined cane sugar is the lack of minerals that go with it, as long as you provide them it's great
I barely consume refined sugar but for moments of acute stress it's very beneficial (a lot of it)

2025-04-25 16:54:42

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Awesome, it picks up mp3 files shared in kind 1s?

2025-04-21 17:49:02

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Using it

2025-04-20 20:15:23

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I started reading and stopped at Bluesky PBC. What is your take? It seems like an insanely long explanation for something so simple.

2025-04-20 18:10:14

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There is value in here though, that's why I come back but I'm strongly wishing for higher signal, lower noise, healthier interfaces.
Less screen, more information density, more consideration of the context (i.e. what is my mood, what am I looking for, how much time I got,...) and new ways of discovering content.
LLMs and VUIs will somehow help us improve the situation.

2025-04-20 17:48:18

Happy Easter frens!

2025-04-20 16:54:04

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Ross, once you understand nostr better you will find that "the protocol" is not even well defined. It's a loose collection of NIPs (on which we mostly agree, especially NIP-01).
There is at least one NIP addressing your concern, see https://nostr-nips.com/nip-11#pay-to-relay
A business model for nodes already emerged spontaneously anyway, one of those is products subsidizing free relays.
We should let free markets will do their thing.

2025-04-20 14:13:12

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@nprofile…6rpa some ideas for npub.world (which has a more interesting backend)

2025-04-18 22:59:31

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Good read.
"Each day, downgrading is made more and more difficult by tech companies and governments, and even by ourselves"
Hoping nostr and bitcoin will make downgrading easier.

2025-04-18 16:38:15

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Thanks for lettimg me know @nprofile…39e9

2025-04-18 16:31:22

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We're building the best tools for building and vibing nostr apps 💜

2025-04-18 16:30:04

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So they can't have @nprofile…je4n Zaplab widgets or nostr-models and Purplebase. Losers. 😅

2025-04-18 16:28:23

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These are mobile frontend dev kits, just as Flutter or React Native

2025-04-18 13:20:40

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Testing if this makes it to nostr

2025-04-16 20:00:31

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Zaps are the publishing of a payment! Some things are better in private

2025-04-14 23:20:01

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You might be interested in actually listening to our conversation

2025-04-11 17:20:12

A neat side effect of designing simple and elegant APIs is that vibe coding tools have a much smaller surface to fuck up its usage

2025-04-10 21:21:44

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11 years old

2025-04-09 16:36:57

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Are you on the latest Zapstore? It otherwise could be issues with our server

2025-04-09 13:19:22

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No it's not broken. Maybe it's your connection

2025-04-08 15:52:05

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Thanks. Sent, I hope it arrives

2025-04-08 01:59:40

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I described what I saw today!

2025-04-08 01:55:32

How do I get support for nostr.wine ? No contact form on the website. Things are not working fine @nprofile…sum5

2025-04-07 14:03:12

Picking up a friend from a gym. Just a regular average gym.
Man, what a shithole. Artificial lighting, smell of synthetic materials, bad music and full of autistic people.
Gyms are so overrated.
Working out and playing sports outdoors is the way.
Creatively use the weight of your body for training. Expose yourself to the elements. Feel the sun, the wind, the rain. Touch grass. Play.

2025-04-04 16:03:25

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You run rely or realy relay? Lmao
Rename it to badass relay

2025-04-04 15:19:04

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NIP PRs mostly never get merged and most impls do support it afaik

2025-04-04 15:17:34

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Given your obsession with clean design and performance, love this!
One question though, why such a shit name? 😂 cmon be more creative

2025-04-04 01:44:37

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Great tool

2025-04-03 17:11:09

Leaving @nprofile…prv3
After almost 8 months from the conception of the idea, to meeting @nprofile…6rpa in Riga, brainstorming the product, and putting a lot of effort to launch... it's time to go.
While Pip was always the brains behind the algos, crawler and a #golang wizard, my involvement still required energy that was being taken away from other places.
So I'm back to focusing 110% on @nprofile…tdq0.
I'm very proud of what we built (including my baby npub.world). Vertex really works, it's well-designed, fast, reliable, interoperable and will be elemental in an open protocol where separating signal vs noise is a must.
All the best moving forward my friend @nprofile…6rpa 🫂! For those who don't know him, one of the best developers in nostr, hands down.

2025-04-02 20:31:36

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Haha don't 😂
We're cooking something awesome, would love to see it used in apps like yours if you decide to use Flutter.

2025-04-02 20:29:33

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Best one so far for me

2025-04-02 19:20:04

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Same here with Primal. It's been broken with "cant connect to relays" for like forever. I was hopeful for Primal 2.0 but the bugs remain and experience is still clunky.
@nprofile…mexk @nprofile…l9ds

2025-04-02 16:43:36

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*on it

2025-04-02 16:37:41

My biggest gripe with Flutter is the leaky abstraction.
Specifically for Android, being too exposed to the underlying layer of Java, XML and Gradle, which are time-tested but old, ugly pieces of software, designed by developers who have no interest in beauty.
If a low level error bubbles up, it should be caught by Flutter and a proper explanation and fixing steps provided - in Flutter conf. 95% of those are wicked, cryptic messages that are time consuming even with the help of LLMs, and providers of great annoyance.
The best thing going for it is the integration of Kotlin, a beautifully designed language that does a great job of reducing the prevalent ugliness in a typical Android dev stack.

2025-04-01 21:05:57

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It's a search engine like Google but to find nostr profiles

2025-03-29 18:21:30

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Us. Putting my grain of sand with @nprofile…je4n and @nprofile…ckkp

2025-03-29 18:19:10

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El filosofo contemporaneo mas aclamado de Latinoamerica

2025-03-29 15:27:17

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A callback for the EOSE signal, means end of stored events. After that you start getting streaming real time results

2025-03-29 04:41:34

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Miedo!

2025-03-28 16:20:31

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Haha I wish...someone else needs to step up!

2025-03-28 13:55:58

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Btw, I did not repost fiatjaf's ascii art

2025-03-28 13:54:48

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Regeln sind regeln

2025-03-28 13:51:59

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Grab the domain 😄

2025-03-28 13:51:23

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I would run a pub.dev mirror that publishes NIP-94 events linking metadata (for search) with package hashes. And store releases on multiple Blossom servers.
Then build a little utility for client side use (pub replacement or augmentation), that looks up packages over nostr.
Fixed. If anyone is interested let me know.

2025-03-28 13:48:08

Google maintains the pub.dev main Dart package registry.
Over the past few weeks its API has been intemittently failing.
This means any "pub get" command also fails, which is a bottleneck in any workflow.
I am focused on end-user app/package marketplaces but language-specific package managers also are ripe to be nostrified.

2025-03-27 17:26:48

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I have a credit card where do I put it

2025-03-27 17:26:04

It's gonna get interesting when AI models start being trained on one-off vibe coded open source projects

2025-03-27 16:45:32

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Nostr Mechanical Turk

2025-03-27 16:44:22

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Rekt

2025-03-27 15:10:19

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Wouldn't an nsec be enough to back up the ecash?

2025-03-27 14:06:35

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Wow, respect. But running marathons is extremely taxing on the body and will exacerbate a cancer.

2025-03-27 01:18:36

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LLM

2025-03-27 01:18:08

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Do you vibe maintain them too?

2025-03-27 00:52:29

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Now imagine hooking it up to @nprofile…prv3 DVMs

2025-03-26 16:20:19

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@nprofile…pxlr

2025-03-26 16:18:50

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Just tried it. Painfully bad

2025-03-26 15:47:10

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That's me

2025-03-26 15:41:15

Can we use local LLMs as screen readers?
Would be so cool to interact with apps by talking to an LLM instead

2025-03-26 15:36:44

And there are significant physical advantages when walking:
- Looking or staring at nature, better light sources and relaxed eye focus
- Compensating predominant body posture, anterior pelvic tilt
- Lower cortisol
- Better chances of grounding or touching grass
- General cardiovascular health
I'm going to start using @nprofile…ltsg instead of reading on my phone, and hope it can start TTS'ing more kinds of content. Maybe the other way round as well - commanding the phone by voice.

2025-03-26 15:20:45

I rarely take calls without moving.
Even at home, I feel the need to walk around.
That's why @nprofile…eua6's "walk and talk" perfectly resonated when I got to Madeira: walking helps thinking more clearly.
If I can do that in nature, even better.
#nevent1q…6cws

2025-03-25 19:32:30

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Ok, I see, and agree with openness and interoperability. What i'm saying is we need applications to translate those attributes into benefits users perceive and relate to.
Without this basic marketing skill it will be very difficult to grow.

2025-03-25 18:53:46

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Oh ok. Easier that way.

2025-03-25 18:49:48

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No job?

2025-03-25 18:37:55

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Appealing to people who empathize with the nostr idealistic vision (or appreciate it as a system with network effect) means getting stuck in the early adopter phase forever. You can't expect growth from there.
Nostr means nothing without applications built on it, and people use applications when they find them useful, it solves a problem for them. It's only apps that bring people. I give a lot of credit to SaaS platforms that grow because they solve a problem, though they might be fixing some inherently fiat problem and/or creating new ones along the way.
If 0.01% of the population cares about censorship resistance, that is the adoption ceiling.
As for communities, I mean a forum. The most basic community building block. To give an example of problems; you can't view reddit content when signed out or with a VPN. X is also limited. Discord same. Creating accounts is a pain many people agree on. Nostr can help fix that.
Nostr has a lot more interesting value props than censorship resistance that applications can leverage to alleviate people's actual, real problems. Applications should focus on those.
Re: Zapstore, thank you for your words! Appreciate it and I promise you it will get so much better still.