Hello everyone,

We founded starbackr in 2021 to empower the creator economy with the power of bitcoin lightning payments. We iterated on many features over the last year and moved toward value for value. Tipping was popular, with sats flowing from wallet to wallet based on good content. So, in November 2022, we removed the like button and replaced it with Zaps. To pay sats on posts, all you had to do was click one button. @Egge7 , my co-founder, wrote a blog post about it.

It was an instant success, and many people began using the zaps to tip posts with the best content. We began cross-posting on Nostr in December, and many posts received zaps from Nostr users. As a result, we decided to build our Native app using the Nostr protocol.

We spent the last few weeks developing the app for both iOS and Android, and we just received TestFlight approval from Apple and play store approval. We will begin rolling out to users in the coming days, and they will be able to use zap immediately by sending/receiving sats.

The app name “Current” is built on react native, and we open sourced it so that we can move forward quickly as a community. Here’s the project github link which details the features, our approach and roadmap.

Base mode features are currently built and available on the app.

Current app utilizes Bitcoin’s BIP-39 seed words to create a human-readable backup for nostr keys. This helps users to store them securely on the device and easily backup on industry standard hardware wallets.

One of the best use cases we have seen of users using the Nostr client is to send and receive sats. However many users struggle with using separate lightning wallets to pay for invoices. So we built a lightning wallet inside the app with which users can send and receive sats with a click of a button.

Over 80% of social media posts are with images and videos. Users will be able to upload images and later videos directly within the app and share their experiences with their community. Uploaded images are scanned for inappropriate content and rejected immediately.

App automatically scans and connects to appropriate relays suited for users to send and receive posts. Users do not need to pay for relays or manually configure them.

To make it easier for users, we let them choose a single verified address to send and receive messages and send and receive sats. We also have choices on domain names such as current.tips, current.fyi

To provide the best user experience, users will be able to port their twitter followers when they set up their profile and right away join the conversations by scrolling through the feeds on their home feed. Users will also be able to search by Nostr public key or NIP-05 address or twitter handle to find new users to follow.

Global feed is overwhelmed by in-appropriate messages and unrelated messages which will not serve any purpose for the users. Instead, users will be able to have active conversations within their follower network and expand the network by adding new and interesting people they want to interact with.

Easily share sats by pressing the zap button. You can preset the amount of zaps to be sent each time you press the button. Or long press to set a custom amount. It is that easy.

Let me know if you are interested to test it out. I can share Testflight or google play store link. or signup for priority access by going to https://getcurrent.io