maksim
Maksim

https://bento.me/mxd

Self taught Product Designer aiming for the best there is for humanity.

Public Key

npub1mqhe79fa25v5lqrefju2en0fcrjc7f5sv3u54ardpwhmw5dxygesrwa324

NIP-05 Address

maxslchv@iris.to

NIP-57 Address

roseswan1@primal.net

Profile Code

nprofile1qqsdstulz5742x20spu5ew9veh5upev0y6gxg72273kshtah2xnzyvcprpmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wdmksetjv5hxxmmdqyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnwdaehgu3wvfskueqms4p0z

Publishing to

relay.noswhere.com

relay.nostr.band

relay.damus.io

Author Public Key

npub1mqhe79fa25v5lqrefju2en0fcrjc7f5sv3u54ardpwhmw5dxygesrwa324

Show more details

Last Notes

2024-03-17 14:22:46

- reply

Seems like a good thing, why news agencies have so much influence anyway and grow to hundreds of employees?

2024-03-14 12:37:16

- reply

what are we talking about here

2024-03-11 22:59:47

- reply

like deleting a note? is there anything else?
can just say that without explaining relays, relays are infrastructure, not the interactive front end people get to touch right

2024-03-11 22:51:16

- reply

DO IT

2024-03-11 22:50:14

found out there's primal on web accidentally

2024-03-11 22:49:54

- reply

do people need to learn the essence of nostr to be here? is the essence in keeping it developer oriented, forever?
that kind of makes it super limited vs a truly global decentralized option for anyone to get into

2024-03-11 22:41:39

- reply

don’t make people remember something in the first place, should be obvious to reach masses

2024-03-11 11:41:31

- reply

great point,
but first I’d try to make it more obvious - npubs etc

2024-03-08 23:25:21

- reply

how primal is working but not damus?

2024-03-08 20:17:22

- reply

from levelsio on twitter?
he's been sharing a lot of these recently, finally this stuff is getting public

2024-03-08 20:04:53

- reply

They definitely are, but these names stay consistent and nostr is a recent thing while most of us are alive for a few decades now.
So it makes it harder for people to find peers they know on nostr compared to facebook etc.
This network effect may be slowing nostr down significantly and may be a blocker to adoption, unless we don't want more adoption

2024-03-08 15:45:37

in general, it feels kinda fake when you’re interacting with all these pseudonyms instead of people like on twitter
Is it essential to hide our identities on nostr? Are we really in danger yet?
Don’t think any government will go after us for sending a few sats back and forth

2024-03-08 15:39:00

Realizing it’s quite tedious to find people to follow on nostr, everyone is anonymous here, how do we network?
Any lists of essential follows on nostr?
#asknostr #nostr

2024-03-07 00:20:23

- reply

what’s happening man

2024-03-03 22:15:19

- reply

Are they claiming warpcast is decentralized? They’re not and it isn’t

2024-03-03 21:58:53

- reply

Didn’t know about the hack sorry. Your email could’ve been scrapped from anywhere on web2 as well no?
There’s a risk with every piece of personal information put online.
But still there is a place for a client that asks for an email to increase adoption.
No one outside nostr has any clue what npub means and I don’t think that’s an advantage.
Private keys also being shared between any clients makes it a lot more riskier than having one place like a vault like wallet to sign you in for every nostr app using it or some form of abstraction to not be giving out full access to your profile for every client etc.

2024-03-03 20:30:36

- reply

Well that’s one approach to build it, if he fails it’ll strengthen nostr right, if he succeeds - we’ll have to learn and adapt it to nostr,
we win in all cases, why be negative with people and other founders especially over fucking email registration?
look at how many users he’s got in the past month and how many nostr got
look at how many bots are on nostr vs farcaster
look at how many projects launched in a month on farcaster vs nostr
people aren’t ready to go fully decentralized yet and they aren’t ready to switch to something that isn’t at least matching the UX of current mass market platforms
being a designer myself, it’s very easy to beat UX of facebook or instagram, if we just copy it and remove ads - it’ll get people to switch already, we can already zap people too - that’d be a game changer
farcaster gives you an option to buy its token with credit card, now imagine if you want to top up sats - what’s that process gonna look like if you don’t own any bitcoin which most people don’t?

2024-03-02 00:31:51

- reply

Definitely up for it, rn I’m trying to make a living on web2/3 to not eat up too much of those hard earned sats.
Once that’s solved we’re gonna push it further than its ever been ⚡️
Better resources/courses/education on nostr can be essential need here, what’s the best way to look into protocol etc, for a non developer?
there must be a way like it wasn’t that hard for me to get how ETH L2s work and such and it’s best to learn in practice but when it’s all decentralized every mistake you do is critical in a way?

2024-03-02 00:15:58

- reply

Makes sense, not undermining the incredible work done here, I get that it’s a lot harder than pushing a centralized thing and worth the effort.
But as long as these limitations are here, there’s little designers can do and therefore there’s little reach of that technology leaps.
I remember hearing something about Primal using caching service which is basically a centralized server no? To keep it running smoothly for UX, kind of a compromise?

2024-03-02 00:04:24

- reply

making best UX and UI you’d enjoy using isn’t scam, and with comments like that are you producing anything of value for humanity?
I’m advocating for a better humane design on all of bitcoin and nostr, bitcoin should be accessible to everyone and kinda cooler than ethereum stuff no? Why are we building it like houses in a cave instead of super modern glass on a shore that’s easy to access and get into (and definitely not scary to)
Why aren’t we attracting best creative talent in and incentivizing to make bitcoin and nostr visually and from UX side spotless?
Shitcoins can pay for it while the biggest cryptocurrency can’t? I know we’re doing it like people should come on their own, figure out what bitcoin is and eventually become maxi and push it further, maybe that’s a better way.
I’m bullish though, Primal is great now and more coming, we’ll see if multiple clients concept will work, right now it seems like people are using whatever they find or is available on their platform, nothing works on all platforms equally well but we’ll get there.
At least one example, for newcomers it can be a single go to app with rewards for completing learning bites etc.

2024-03-01 23:24:35

I think there’s a lot we can learn from web3 (I know) projects.
I love how they’re trying to escape the boring look of typical corporate giants, bootstrapping nature
and there are some good ideas hiding behind all these airdrops and nfts - and it aligns in many ways with what we’re here for with bitcoin
over time as bitcoin growths in terms of user adoption, ease of use and being an obvious go to solution for things other than money transfer, which is now getting far already with nostr - that’s where real growth and adoption happens.
Check out this product built for ETH L2 for example hypersub.withfabric.xyz - it’s better than L2 alternatives in every way.
This is how we should win people over, instead of telling them here is a link to 50 lightning wallets, some of them work on android only etc and then pick the one that works for you - but people need the basics - send and receive bitcoin, it’s that simple.
I haven’t seen a wallet yet that’s intuitive, that’s probably the reason Primal built another one into the app.
Now as I’m not a very active nostr user recently I still got like 3 places where I can have sats + a cashu thing
We’d benefit from just collaborating on an open source single wallet we can point people to with intent to make it the simplest + can offer small incentives with a few sats at least to learn more about the underlying technology, on off ramps etc.
Right now people install wallet of satoshi, primal or whatever but how to send actual sats to it? Big big question for people unfamiliar, unless someone else who already have it sends it.
But since bitcoin is limited in supply and be more mainstream I’d expect on off ramps to be a bit less relevant over time.
Ok wrapping up this long post haha just sharing thoughts after Day 1 of bitcoin atlantis
#nostrdesign #atlantis
https://m.primal.net/HgkK.jpg

2024-02-26 18:32:59

- reply

Warpcast got channels, here it’s kind of a single feed only with option to be separated by hashtags it seems or within certain clients
Then just attract the people who talk and share about other things
Quite complex problem tbh

2024-02-25 01:55:33

- reply

The tech seems pretty cool here, but explanation/marketing is so off
Fine for an early version though
Spending time on Farcaster I notice how quickly people bootstrap projects out there and they turn out to work really well from both marketing and tech
Last month alone there are countless projects launched that are pretty awesome and make money for people.
I think that what’s missing on nostr, zaps are cool but lightning has its issues and that the only currency we have with expensive on/off rails

2024-02-25 01:45:46

- reply

Yeah I meant as a user
Cool thing that it’s already available to everyone on nostr
Looks super technical tho, I’ve been having out full time on ETH space for the past weeks and it’s amazing how well they’ve got the user experience sorted

2024-02-24 23:23:35

- reply

Great intro on my opinion!
What would be the steps to get this cashu setup?

2024-02-17 17:22:14

- reply

I do web/product - dinosave.co / bento.me/mxd

2024-02-05 11:32:28

- reply

I’d bet more on the second

2024-02-03 12:17:24

- reply

solid on my opinion, encountered maybe one bug over months
dev community there seems to be super active, last Friday they released frames and today we already have a frame token, games playable in these frames and much more - such a simple feature pushed engagement to ATH
I think it’s also because most people use warpcast from Dan, which makes him a great leader vs on nostr every client competes with each other on amount of bugs it has - on warpcast you just come in and engage with people

2024-01-26 12:51:02

- reply

Instead of VCs it could be government or a community/fund who would help you financially to build your company and grow it
With a community you’ll already have users, feedback loops etc. (similar to nouns)
Government/community are more interested in making it better for the people rather than do a good business

2024-01-26 12:48:21

- reply

I think we need to support bootstrappers and give them more visibility and credit vs all these VC backed companies
This week there is, for example, a popular app update for Amie and it gets lots of attention on Twitter
It got $7 million for a calendar app SAAS lol.
Issue also that VCs in majority want money out of you more than anything else so we end up seeing only success in how much startups earns and it’s often something B2B where a bigger corporation pays smaller company because they’ve got insane money in their accounts in the first place

2024-01-26 12:45:01

- reply

No one can change the regulation, countless laws and taxes we’ve got, banks and finance.
The ideas that would elevate us and change the world are pretty simple, bitcoin was founded because of that too
But no one will allow you to do that because it’ll make a lot of people loose their monopolies and power

2024-01-25 11:55:24

- reply

I was excited to get ps5 but turned out they only have a few big titles and a lot of it is monsters or horror
so I keep playing fifa lol like10 years ago + gta5 sometimes

2024-01-24 23:22:05

- reply

whoa, I’ll think I’ll add bitcoin just in case too as a backup if someone wants to
you ended up finding a way to get paid in bitcoin in the end haha, right?

2024-01-23 02:01:34

- reply

Did you see anyone using it?

2024-01-22 01:38:28

Launched my design subscription currenly on Base chain and using Credit cards.
Is there anything similar on nostr or a payment provider using BTC/Lightning?
Or is the only way nostr and bitcoin projects are progressing by funding directly to the people from opensats etc.?
@npub1r0r…q9ac
https://hypersub.withfabric.xyz/collection/amply-partner-miptrlhnajgg

2024-01-21 22:18:21

I’d be spending a lot more time on nostr if it had a good and reliable client on web like warpcast

2024-01-03 12:34:39

- reply

That’s the indicator of why they’re failing. Must be hell internally, too slow and no innovation like all big companies except apple

2023-12-19 03:33:15

Built a Framer website and a purchasable template in the last 3 days basically.
https://sleekify.framer.website/

2023-12-17 21:52:33

Anyone selects their country as US when shopping online to avoid paying VAT?
How they can charge VAT for a product that’s not location based.
These laws are too confusing for online transactions in fiat

2023-12-17 14:26:20

- reply

Something works sometimes now lol. To post this message I tried 5 times on Primal with 2 app restarts and now trying from snort on web lol

2023-12-16 14:28:26

- reply

thanks! will post once ready 🫡

2023-12-16 14:10:07

- reply

its all over the place in a way 😅

2023-12-16 14:08:30

- reply

no, happy to, it's not public since a lot of work was private under agency.
I'll be putting a simple personal site with what's public and smaller projects I did/working on.
I'm sending you figma link in DM 🙌

2023-12-16 11:40:49

- reply

Looking for design work lol. Just finished figma portfolio and building a small personal website while building a few small non web3 related products.

2023-12-12 01:42:52

- reply

What’s up with typography in that doc lol

2023-12-07 01:51:03

- reply

Depends on the product/use but I agree pagination can work better in many cases where it’s infinite scroll

2023-12-07 01:47:19

Global corporations that have physical presence like internet operators, power grid etc. like Vodafone or EDP
Vodafone in particular on my experience is the worst, least humane company out there I had to deal with, and I think the fact that it’s multinational and super rich - makes it able to continue to do that kind of business.
For a multinational company success metrics are different and as a result people get manipulated and squeezed.
Thousands of designers, call centers and developers are working to make it worse for the general public.
They have all the resources and lawyers to make their activities legal, maybe even paying to local politicians etc.
Especially in case of internet providers I think they must be national companies and setup in a way that they only enable growth, are secure and can’t be exploited or impose limits on freedoms (in worst case scenarios)
The way they do business is super outdated too and overpriced compared to alternatives existing today.
All employees I dealt with are either trying to manipulate you or are bored to death.
If you open maps and check each of their office it’s hard to find one that has rating above 2 stars.
I’m wondering how these toxic companies can exist today and no one seem to be working on solving that issue or thinking about that

2023-12-07 01:45:08

- reply

This is hilarious

2023-12-06 17:01:31

Is warpcaster for farcaster like damus for nostr - in a way ETH vs BTC based protocol?

2023-12-06 02:01:51

Can’t imagine myself working for fiat anymore for my next big commitment.

2023-12-06 00:08:18

What are your thoughts on Farcaster and Warpcast?

2023-12-05 21:31:13

What’s the best client to use on Mac arm? Or best is web based? What are you using? #asknostr

2023-12-05 18:48:42

What are nostr related sites/apps you visit daily/weekly? #asknostr

2023-11-22 22:42:10

It was a big deal for me. I’m 25 and grown there from junior.
I was the first employee in the agency and glad I've contributed to its success directly and indirectly, by the time I left:
• Agency's revenue grown significantly
• Team grown to 4 full time designers
• Our clients exited for over $2B in total
• Contributed 6600+ hours of work, research, meetings in total https://image.nostr.build/58879943b6f4fa77028edc1ca82e46cccecb420577cd305baefd15a3d046d9dd.jpg

2023-11-22 20:11:39

Excited to announce I parted ways with my full time agency job today!
I developed a disaffection for corporations, for how slow they are and for how they work.

2023-10-27 00:02:23

Just found out https://posts.cv/ exists
Looks similar to twitter and pretty clean and slick.
I think a lot of nostr clients would benefit from copying it or twitter first before diverging into it's own thing - getting the basics right like posts layout etc.

2023-10-21 01:35:20

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/20/politics/us-israel-ukraine-aid-package/index.html
Imagine how many startups the government could've funded with amount of money like this?
It's $1 mil for 100,000 startups and $500k for 200,000 startups for a seed round.
For an indie bootstrapper it'd be enough money to live for multiple years and build many valuable things for other people, community and state.
US will always get these money back from the VATs and other taxes because you'll inevitable pay them when you shop, hire people and from everything else that you do with money.
That's also like at least 200k jobs created instantly, it seems like economy goes in that direction anyways where many people need to quit their boring jobs and do something they truly care about.
And government has the best positioning to provide aid for that because VCs and investors only want money as a return.
Government could also issue bounties like that for up to a $1mil to improve on every aspect of the government and locally.
The communities themselves can come up with ideas and identify the problems to fix and put money into, maybe even without the middleman - the government to allow them to.
Like if there is a broken bench, any person with skills and time could take funds off the fund and fix it that day or order a new one etc, with government this would take days by minimum.
I think most taxes should go towards the area you live in and the digital projects for it and the country that you have to use anyways.
Switzerland has it a bit like that and even small towns there are spotless, very well built, for people with reduced mobility as well, long and carefully designed bike lanes that aren't existing in big cities in other countries even.
And so whenever most of your taxes are paid to the main entity controlling the whole big country, it can't effectively work with and improve on every neighbourhood.
I think the best way of living and governance is within smaller neighborhoods/areas, that's when you can get deep into every details of everything around you

2023-10-17 02:03:43

Haven’t been on nostr lately, got in and got 50+ new followers?!

2023-10-02 12:59:22

- reply

Unless you regularly spend time to manage the notifications, will end up with that. Every all pushing to allow notifications to lure you back in mostly and not because something truly meaningful happened and needs your attention in app most of the time

2023-09-22 13:25:03

- reply

How can it happen so often, it’s like second major fix in a week or so

2023-09-20 10:05:59

- reply

Thanks for the mention!

2023-09-18 16:13:11

- reply

Oh haha, btw snort became my go to desktop client, noticing subtle improvements there

2023-09-18 16:06:32

- reply

Show us 3 you like the most

2023-09-17 09:59:03

- reply

Why these specifically?

2023-09-15 23:53:04

- reply

Great wireframe

2023-09-15 23:51:37

- reply

Great stuff thanks for sharing! I was just writing about that yesterday in reply to the rabble's post about adoption and nostr in general getting more attractive.
This will be an amazing start or reference point to other clients' designers and devs.

2023-09-15 23:46:22

Can nostr support e-commerce? Can imagine a single flow of product data which can then be used by clients etc. to see and know which products are available at your location and then track the prices, letting you collect the items as well to your wishlist

2023-09-15 11:28:19

- reply

Extension doesn’t work on mobile and do we want a 3rd party extension to be crucial for everyone coming to nostr?

2023-09-15 02:26:05

- reply

I’d need help for sure from someone understanding nostr better.
But overall that may be the radical choice needed to push things further, one possible solution I could think of.
When there is no marketing people need to make a lot more effort to learn how it works and get in.
The way world currently is, that’s already pushing few people to learn about nostr, unless something really bad happens, we could try a somewhat centralized approach for marketing/onboarding.

2023-09-15 01:55:51

- reply

Browser extension is confusing, easiest is to just download a mobile client
Or go to snort / iris on the web, no need for any extensions. Unless you want to connect lightning

2023-09-11 16:13:48

- reply

Yes not a big difference for a typical designer workflow, what do you need this much memory for? I think I have 1tb and never looked at how much I have left lol

2023-09-11 13:37:27

- reply

Arm macs are beasts and far ahead of comparable or even best windows laptops, using fewer energy while giving more

2023-09-09 14:44:25

- reply

Consider sharing screenshots or a recording to make it easier for us to leave feedback

2023-09-09 14:33:01

- reply

Great update

2023-09-09 14:28:31

- reply

Congrats on getting it! Will be a fun project to watch developing 🚀

2023-09-09 14:21:38

- reply

totally agree, and by pursuing their capitalist goals they make it worse for all people while cashing a lot of money for not providing any value (by earning from stocks etc. in ways we can’t prove they did something illegal)

2023-09-09 14:19:13

- reply

Like are there designers at open sats or something that can be dedicated?

2023-09-09 14:18:31

- reply

Text above says reach out to opensats email haha

2023-09-09 01:26:23

- reply

what happens when someone emails you?

2023-09-08 13:27:15

- reply

Yes maybe decrease letter spacing in general / focus on the details of the wordmark more

2023-09-08 13:25:36

- reply

Like this one also
https://image.nostr.build/c9aa0ceeb5f1e27689383d60a1134ae77ca8beef9679a47caa5866fbc8734f9e.png

2023-09-08 13:25:12

- reply

Simplified maybe a bit more though

2023-09-08 13:24:57

- reply

https://image.nostr.build/88e5f653fd5b968e96fa59269f81e29a424b6dc13a08b73067ac7540621934d9.png

2023-09-05 11:36:59

Is there a job/request board for design work somewhere for nostr/bitcoin projects?
#nostrdesign #asknostr

2023-09-05 11:19:17

- reply

Maybe there is a simpler UI for that, and UX wise even show the first 2 posts of the thread so you can quickly scroll to see if it’s relevant, many times you can’t judge the quality by that first message.
Also think it takes a lot of vertical space and has icon on the left and right to do the same action.
Consider trying to show something like “Expand 6 more posts" simply as a link styling at the end of the last message to expand.
Similar behavior is in Instagram read more

2023-09-05 11:10:48

- reply

Product hunt I think 🧐 Also hacker news and then from various sources and newsletters

2023-09-05 11:03:00

- reply

Broken a little on mobile
https://m.primal.net/HKey.jpg

2023-09-05 11:00:03

- reply

You can get it locally, I’ve tried it in a small village near Athens lol, it was the best steak I’ve ever tasted and exceeded my expectations.

2023-09-04 12:00:11

Inspired by designjoy, how about a business model where you let people bid to be your client for the next month?
Instead of multiple clients for $5k a month you could have one that will go for $15-50k a month. That will surely bring more quality and free insane amount of time.
Designjoy is a subscription service for graphic/web design where it costs $5k per months and you do one task at a time. It had an insane success for that solo designer running it.

2023-09-03 10:39:43

- reply

Ok but what difference would it make?

2023-09-02 22:54:53

- reply

smth quick I’ve tried for fun
https://m.primal.net/HKXu.jpg

2023-09-02 22:54:04

- reply

Are you settled on colors yet? What were the other iterations you had?

2023-09-02 22:53:34

- reply

Why to use a custom relay? How to? Should I disable all the other relays?

2023-09-02 22:17:03

- reply

Is that a site on framer?

2023-09-02 22:15:06

What’s your go to client for nostr on the web? Nicest to use #asknostr

2023-09-02 22:03:28

- reply

Not so hard if you’re into it haha

2023-09-02 21:59:05

- reply

Nice one! Fits, great project too it seems like 👀

2023-09-02 21:58:10

- reply

Looks like a fancy D

2023-09-02 21:54:12

- reply

Would it be like when you pull the article you pay a satoshi for a view? Or a few, and then part goes to the author, part to the platform. That way it could be self sustainable, will have less bots if you pay per view, people will be competing to put the best description out there and platform will try to make it very easy to use and fast to load etc.
I can even imagine something like that for a nostr client like primal also, what if we would pay a satoshi per post we see here? I don’t think most of us will go bankrupt, authors will earn more. And if you find yourself spending all day watching new posts it’s probably not healthy and your wallet will get more empty inciting you to watch less and go do something instead.
That approach can work with video hosting and many other types of services where we consume content I think.

2023-08-31 09:14:11

- reply

What was the most successful for you? I’m looking to quit my full time job at the agency, experiment with products