Survey Monkey with Lightning Payments per question. Incentivize people to take your damn survey. It's a cool demo project because it's a "faucet" where you give people sats looking at the demo instead of building a hypothetical ecommerce site that charges sats, which nobody will actually do.
Notarize-the-dms: a chat app where you can toggle a PGP signature on your dms to verify those screenshots are indeed legit (not photoshopped). For example, for a conversation between you and your landlord.
While Lightning Shell is already very useful for people who know how to use the command line, I do think I need some help from the community to take it to the next level: make it accessible for anyone (I wrote here about my motivation behind this project). Basically I was thinking to introduce a "tutorials" feature. Something like a "cook book" for things one can do in CLI. Ideally these would be things related to Bitcoin/LN, but not necessary so. I wrote a first example here - a simple way to build your own Block Clock. I'm thinking it would be nice to have tutorials for anything, like opening channels, generating invoices, sending on-chain BTC, sending Telegram messages, etc etc etc. As a bonus, at the end of every "recipe", the author would (optionally) include his node's public key and could receive sats as a donation (people following the recipe are already inside Lightning Shell, they can send a tip without any friction)
As for usocial, it is a podcast client and feed reader that runs on your Umbrel node. It can send Lightning payments directly to the podcast creators if they are using the podcast:value tag (value4value). It works well enough for me, but honestly I am not that much of an UI guy, if anyone feels like they would make the UI better, I am sure the community would be forever grateful.
I'm working on a custom trading web frontend for Localbitcoins. It's been an MVP for me for years, helping me live off my stack of sats very conveniently. It's multi-currency and just now multi-user, so maybe there's a chance to turn it into a real product, since P2P trading in that platform has been exploding in latam (where I'm from) and more recently in eastern Europe. Anyhow, it's a big part of my plan to escape my shithole country before I die.
PS: It's vanilla Node + JS on the frontend, but I'm moving as much as I can to Elm to help me keep my sanity. If I'd known better years ago, I'd go Elixir/Phoenix, but I really needed to hit the ground running back then.
My Fiat-Mining job is taking most of my time currently.
Not much left for building on the side, unfortunately.
But I'm always looking for small projects that could be worked on even with limited time.
And I'm currently looking at a lot of open source projects to see what is actually needed to start building something like SN.
Not that I want to clone it, just to understand the moving parts. Interacting with LN etc.
The tech stack you chose btw is pretty approachable 👌 I really like working with Next.js, GQL and PostgreSQL.
In the meantime, I also wonder why Elixir/Phoenix is so underrepresented in the BTC Dev Space ^^
But then again, it is pretty underrepresented in the whole dev space so far.
I think, though, it could be very well suited for many problems that are being worked on in the BTC space.
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podcast:valuetag (value4value). It works well enough for me, but honestly I am not that much of an UI guy, if anyone feels like they would make the UI better, I am sure the community would be forever grateful.