Early pre-launch is live, any suggestions are encouraged, pretend you wanted your normie friends to download it, would you change anything?
https://wisp.mobile/
nostr:nevent1qqsqqqq0pfqsnvgjmhd8amftw...
I asked Claude to analyse your website, telling him to put himself in the shoes of a typical Facebook, Instagram or X user, and this was his response:
Here's what doesn't convince me:
**1. The learning curve is insane.** You don't sign up with email and password. You have to manage a **public key** (your username) and a **private key** (your password) — if you lose the private one, your account is gone forever. For someone like me who uses "password123" for everything... that's a serious problem.
**2. Relays are a mess.** If you're only connected to relay A and I'm only connected to relay B, we can't see each other even if we're both on Nostr. We need to share at least one relay in common. How am I supposed to know where my friends are?
**3. Android only.** Wisp is Android only. Half my contacts have an iPhone. End of conversation.
**4. The community is still tiny.** Opening a social network where nobody I know is there is just demotivating. On Instagram I have 400 followers built up over years. Here I'd be starting from scratch.
**5. The protocol's creator.** According to a Business Insider investigation, Nostr's founder reportedly published material in the past connected to a well-known Brazilian far-right conspiracy theorist. Not exactly something that makes me want to trust the platform blindly.
Here's what doesn't convince me:
**1. The learning curve is insane.** You don't sign up with email and password. You have to manage a **public key** (your username) and a **private key** (your password) — if you lose the private one, your account is gone forever. For someone like me who uses "password123" for everything... that's a serious problem.
**2. Relays are a mess.** If you're only connected to relay A and I'm only connected to relay B, we can't see each other even if we're both on Nostr. We need to share at least one relay in common. How am I supposed to know where my friends are?
**3. Android only.** Wisp is Android only. Half my contacts have an iPhone. End of conversation.
**4. The community is still tiny.** Opening a social network where nobody I know is there is just demotivating. On Instagram I have 400 followers built up over years. Here I'd be starting from scratch.
**5. The protocol's creator.** According to a Business Insider investigation, Nostr's founder reportedly published material in the past connected to a well-known Brazilian far-right conspiracy theorist. Not exactly something that makes me want to trust the platform blindly.
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