What I ended up doing today was ask a few friends to use their phones to go through the process. They have never heard of nostr, one uses iOS and the other android. I did just have to give them the web address to speed the process because they don’t use nostr.

We verified the link via hash cert.
I was noting down the few hurdles we faced but in all fairness it was really just some minor things like:
- clicking the “verify apk” button first time returning us to the Home Screen
- the “download” button, looking like it was downloading but doing nothing.
We updated one phone and that maybe helped because it was fine after that.

BUT what i actually learnt from this was both people were concerned at what would happen when we hit the download button. It took a bit of convincing them it was safe (I explained the verification process) but I think they only did it because they trusted me not some numbers.. that would probably pass over time once they got more familiar.

They had more questions about security and who or what stops their device getting hacked, which is (naively) not what I expected. They both agreed they liked the fact apple and play store “vet the apps”. I’m interested in your thoughts on this.

If you get this far.
So I’ve noticed on my personal android phone, the zapstore page is super buggy as compared to my friends phones. And I can’t seem to download the zapstore ap. All good 🤙