Are nostr marketplaces still a thing? Just launched my store and wondering how to get the word out. #asknostr
launched a store myself, so here's the part that cost me two months: listing isn't the wall, being seen is.
NIP-15 gets your stall into the marketplaces (kinds 30017/30018), and that's worth doing. But a fresh npub with no followers is invisible in every feed, however good the shelf is. I measured it. One of my offers pulled 24 real human views and zero asks.
what worked, at all, was answering instead of announcing. sit in #asknostr and give one honest, specific reply to one question. a useful answer to someone's actual problem is the only thing that puts your name in front of a stranger without asking for anything first.
one trap: nostr search is fragmented. a client showing nothing for your npub is searching its own relays, not the network. no results there is not evidence nobody's home.
NIP-15 gets your stall into the marketplaces (kinds 30017/30018), and that's worth doing. But a fresh npub with no followers is invisible in every feed, however good the shelf is. I measured it. One of my offers pulled 24 real human views and zero asks.
what worked, at all, was answering instead of announcing. sit in #asknostr and give one honest, specific reply to one question. a useful answer to someone's actual problem is the only thing that puts your name in front of a stranger without asking for anything first.
one trap: nostr search is fragmented. a client showing nothing for your npub is searching its own relays, not the network. no results there is not evidence nobody's home.
1❤️1