I think the reason why this was possible is because of how they're only target one brand, and that brand focus on a limited number of phones per cycle, so if you look at android, then they'd have to design and build for an extremely number of phones/brands, so I don't think they'd want to pursue that unfortunately, and if they do, they'd chose one to a few types of androids per cycle.

This is adorable and cool x3

no? you wanted an apk, here's the apk link: https://lifpay.me/downloads/lifpay.apk

Yup. I looked into Blink, and I guess its USP is that StableSats function (pretty cool, not gonna lie), though considering the advancements in Lightning, we'll be getting lightning stablecoins soon so most likely a lot of other apps, include LifPay, would potentially having a similar competing element of having stables in the wallet.

One thing I noticed tho when I attempted to test out Blink, their registration requires a phone number, so that's a bummer. Hopefully they'd also add Nostr login, or even just email registration at least.

Speaking of ecash, considering LifPay already has nostr login, its not that far off actually, as in nostr there's already integrations of ecash and people are using it to send each other to their addresses directly (basically, its almost a matter of just visually presenting the amount you already might have of ecash tokens that's residing within your nostr address, to showcase and use it in LifPay).

there is an apk download (click the Android option/box)

Yea, I get what you mean. I have a big brother and he's definitely into a forum-style type of online socializing in regards to communities. I'm aware of the method of first vibing with a community and building up a stronger connection before a "heeey look at my thing. would love your thoughts and support". Even having just a little bit of social interaction and time before posting something helps lessen the blow and increase the "ok, so what's this" tolerance. Also, yea as you mentioned, knowing the top-Gs of a community in regards to what they value helps with the message delivery.

Definitely, BTC/LN with Nostr was a core to develop with the site for the passed first release. It opens up all roles (gamers, modders, gamedevs) to spend and receive without restriction and headaches (this is from experience as I'm in an environment where its extremely difficult to use fiat systems).

Funny you brainstorm-suggested that, because of two points:

Ah, gotcha. It would definitely help speed things up if funds came in, as I'm basically trying to get more jobs to spend personal funds on to pass the next development milestones, which would take time. The main reason why there's reluctance on my end about starting a company is because of where I am and my nationality if we're talking about setting up a company to receive traditional investments. We can move this specific discussion via DMs on Nostr if you'd like, to discuss options, what's possible, roadblocks, and so on. (I just followed you).

(btw i think your nostr link in SN in your profile is broken. Seems like they've changed the URL structure and that's why its not leading to your profile correctly)

Fair point. I've adjusted those label's visibility. Should be readable now (those and the above ones too).

Thanks for sharing those communities. I'll go ahead and look into them and most likely share an introductory post there if possible, to get their thoughts and desires.

Yeah, the addressable market is not big, but it's definitely a very strong foundation where their presence and having this tool/space for them would act as a small snowball that's rolling down a mountain, getting bigger and bigger.

The addressable issue is quite big I'd say, and because this strong solution for it is now present, it will be the default fallback for all mod creators when they even think about facing this issue (of censorship, or even their preferred site dying, or new unlikable management comes in), as well as banking on nostr itself growing and becoming a dominant network in the future (this can be looking at as a long-term investment).

The extra benefits that DEG Mods has in comparison to other sites, currently and leading up to the release of the next 2 milestones (MVP-B and then v1), aside from the censorship-resistant part (even though it carries significant weight in value if you stop and think about it):

However, aside from those points above, as well as being "censorship resistant", these won't be the only accomplishments and goals here. This also has to be a pretty good general competitor to all game mods sites, with that said, here are the goals in mind for this project:

In regards to financing the development, so far it's been half community-funded and half personally funded. If we're going with the personal funds route, then this will definitely take time. That's why one of the reasons for having DEG Mods out in this early state, aside from having the public use/test it and provide feedback to improve it, is to also present another funding source through that tip button by those that find value in it. Releasing it now and having it live also increases the chances of getting more community funds, as well as having more leverage in negotiations of a potential investment opportunity if comes up.

While I'd love for it to be done with just that, and have the platform be as pure and useful as possible, I am aware that money needs to keep coming in to keep proper development, maintenance and marketing ongoing, so there are plans to introduce monetization streams in the future, such as ads (if possible, delivered in the way I see it, where its an opt-in/opt-out hybrid (This is a different topic) but we'll see), affiliate links, subscription packages, zap splits, merch (after building up the branding, there's plans for that / within the marketing plans), and continuing to explore more monetization options to get them implemented.

In terms of making a company around this. I'm not sure about that one. I'd prefer if the structure stays as is currently, but if the need arises, or a beneficial opportunity for the benefit of the project arises where this is needed, then I wouldn't be opposed to it.

Thanks!

Answering your questions:

1.1. Later down the line, there'd be an option to upload files to a file-hosting service or two (paid/subscribed by the creator, think satellite.earth and what they're doing)

2.1. The goal here is to make so as censorship-resistant as possible, that's why its being built on that protocol (in a case where the site gets taken down, the repository too, so long as someone has a copy of the project, they can run it on their PC locally and use it as if it wasn't taken down at all, and of course, they could upload it to a different domain and other devs can continue developing it if we were forced to stop).

3.1. I'll be continuing to keep an eye on the gaming industry's news to see what other mods get censored and have a quick reaction time to have those mods up on the site, to capture the presented opportunity, and then hiding them once their creator is on the site (this soft answers your 4th question).

3.2. Aside from other mod platforms, I haven't looked into moding communities and presenting the platform there, but that's the next step I'll be doing (there are probably one or two subreddits, and probably a few forums). I have, however, contacted a community of users who hate what's been happening in the moding scene and got a high positive reaction, so I'll be revisiting them soon with an update about the project, and finding similar communities along the way.

3.3. Since normal users are also part of the equation, I'm also messaging users on social media and interacting with them based on censorship news, to build up the increased chances of a chain reaction for word-of-mouth.

4.1. I'll continue to add a few more as they come, and/or more old ones, and then edit them to redirect to their proper mod post once it is confirmed that the initial mod creator is on the platform and has posted the mod, then I'd hide that post as well from view/search so that only the proper post gets shown.

Hopefully this answers all of your questions well.

Labels? Like the navigation links (games, mods, etc)? Send a screenshot if you can ( you can upload images here: https://nostr.build/ )

(Thanks for the campaign link and backing! =3)

Ah, sorry about that, I got my order wrong. The first and last should've been switched. Here's the correct ordering:

/6: No comment on this. I like it =3

/7: This is interesting... in terms of decreasing the issue of someone not knowing if a name is shadow-claimed or not, why not, referencing the proposed solution in /6, have a list for those who haven't revealed their claimed name after X blocks (let's say 48 hours worth of blocks of 10 minutes as an example), would be put on that .shadow list (or browsers/clients would do the calc themselves to see if they unsalted their transactions within the X amount of blocks), otherwise it's a valid claim. This might be the smallest compromise to protect people from front-runners and decrease the risk of someone having already taken their name.

/8: For me personally, while this solution is interesting, I wouldn't be a fan of it. I think a better solution would be to just have high-profile entities to just mention their order of claim. Ex: Someone took "Amazon" and then the actual Amazon that we know comes in and registers, they'd just market themselves as "Amazon:2" or something, and browsers/clients, over time, may suggest a "popular" domain to be pushed at the top and writing the domain and/or highlighted.

/6: For me personally, while this solution is interesting, I wouldn't be a fan of it. I think a better solution would be to just have high-profile entities to just mention their order of claim. Ex: Someone took "Amazon" and then the actual Amazon that we know comes in and registers, they'd just market themselves as "Amazon:2" or something, and browsers/clients, over time, may suggest a "popular" domain to be pushed at the top and writing the domain and/or highlighted.

/7: This is interesting... in terms of decreasing the issue of someone not knowing if a name is shadow-claimed or not, why not, referencing the proposed solution in /6, have a list for those who haven't revealed their claimed name after X blocks (let's say 48 hours worth of blocks of 10 minutes as an example), would be put on that .shadow list (or browsers/clients would do the calc themselves to see if they unsalted their transactions within the X amount of blocks), otherwise it's a valid claim. This might be the smallest compromise to protect people from front-runners and decrease the risk of someone having already taken their name.

/8: No comment on this. I like it =3

We're probably not going to move forward with the discussions in regard to points 2 and 3. We have our base stances on those from the looks of it so will move on from it.

In regards to point 1 however, yes, I'm in agreement here (aside from the issue of having btc, that is an 'issue' everywhere), as it was mentioned/implied in the post. With that said, it's only a matter of time before the UX part becomes sexy (discussions about that is already underway by interested individuals).

number of words per piece?

Yes, I'm aware of zaps, I love em =3 But no, while I appreciate buzz-sentence of "All Your Models Are Broken", they aren't actually, and they will be used. The only note about that is those traditional models would be modified to fit the nature of nostr.