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Nick Slaney
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With replit + moneydevkit the agent can now take you entirely from 0 to website with prod global payments in minutes. No signup, no onboarding. Just say “add moneydevkit”

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Feel free to jump in the discord and I can help you diagnose!


No_route is typically something with the webhook setup, two things to check:

1. Is your site name correct on the dashboard? Go to Webhooks and make sure it matches the url it’s hosted at.

2. Is the code snippet at api/mdk/route.js correct? Agents are pretty good at this part, but good to double check. Just copy / paste what’s in the readme.

We use Webhooks to ping your node when a payment is coming in. If we can’t reach your site then the payment will fail no_route.

Looked like your agent was trying local with ngrok? That can work but you’ll need to adjust the webhook url to your exact ngrok url. We’re working on a more friendly local experience (on mutinynet) and will have that out soon.
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The node spinning up / shutting down is normal and expected. It’s how we’re able to support NextJS and serverless infra like netlify and vercel!

Happy to take a look, Claude is going deep :)
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This is a cool concept, we started with the prepackaged checkout to start but there’s no reason this shouldn’t work.. we are planning on exposing the lower level stuff that can make something like this easy soon.
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Hi nostr

Today we’re launching our public beta at moneydevkit.com

It’s the fastest, easiest way for anyone to take payments online.

So fast actually, I set the world record from deployed website to production payment (4:38.94).

Try it for yourself:
npx @moneydevkit/create

npm i @moneydevkit/nextjs


Under the hood, we’re using self custody lightning (can I say that here? 😆), but you don’t need to worry about any of that. Just install the library, paste a few code snippets (or have your agent do it like I did), and take payments.
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Ideas are meaningless without execution and the ability to follow through.

If you’re only able to copy someone else, you’re always a step behind.
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How can c= generate such a return with just routing?

Lightning liquidity is the most underestimated part of the network.

It’s part of what we solve at moneydevkit, but here’s a bit about how we did it at Block

1. Real transactions.

Cash is one of the biggest lightning services on the network. It connects millions to lightning, and as Miles pointed out, more and more people are using it everyday.

By nature of cash being custodial, we had insights into what people were using lightning for. This was part of the original thesis of c=.

There are some big players out there that node runners have no idea about 🤷🏻‍♂️. Lightning privacy works very well. Apologies monero trolls.

2. Liquidity in our favor

Most people buy bitcoin on cashapp and withdraw (based)

That transaction flow is ideal for lightning, and in the right hands, you can flex it to pay for and make a handsome return on your own payments and operations.

For the plebnet inclined— c= is an inbound generator. For its capacity it’s typically had 1-3X+ more inbound than outbound. This is a very unique position on the network.

3. Strategy

The management the team did not only improved the experience for Cash users, it compounded payments and fees going through our channels.

We expected to get some return, but we were pretty blown away by the volumes and takes.

The ROI we collected was not from Cash.

This was just step 0.5. The next steps were to flex our position and liquidity to bolster bigger and higher value things. One of those was Square.

In the end, the real value comes from real people making real payments. It’s why I’ve always harped on this:

We don’t need X protocol or Y L2. The technology is there. We need to do the hard part of bringing it to real people now.

For you nostr folks consider— on-chain fees were never even a thought in our minds. Our margins were fat.
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Hi Nostr,

Launching soon— https://moneydevkit.com

Stripe is the de facto payment solution for developers but theres entire swaths of the globe that aren’t served by it.

Similarly, everyday people with legitimate businesses get their payments turned off by stripe because the traditional financial system doesn’t want to serve them.

Money Dev Kit is the easiest way to get started taking payments online. Easier than stripe. No onboarding or approvals. 170 countries. Your payments are yours.

Under the hood, it’s self-custody and lightning. None of the headache, nodes channels etc. The interface will be truly stripe level and better.

After working in lightning for the past few years, the hidden alpha on the network is there are plenty of people sending and able to send payments, but there’s a shortage of people receiving them.

Underserved devs are using AI to make the future of the internet, and this will be by far the easiest way for them to receive those payments.

Sign up for the mailing list for early access when we launch