100 sats \ 5 replies \ @orthzar 23 Jul 2023 \ on: Can i ask why not decentralized uber app is mainstream yet meta
This Nostr app exists, but it's missing critical features:
https://github.com/ArcadeCity/bullrun
There are very few programmers who are capable of making decentralized versions of Uber/Lyft/DoorDash. All of them are currently focused on building social media apps on Nostr. It is a genuine tragedy that their talents are being wasted making social media apps -- and that Nostr is being wasted on social media.
I wrote an essay relevant to this topic:
#206646
The funny thing is it is likely the commerce apps that are needed first! People forget that before social media, there was business on the internet!
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People forget that before social media, there was business on the internet!
I don't know how to put this, but you have history backwards. The US government explicitly banned commerce on the early internet (i.e. the '70s and '80s). In 1980, the first social media network was created: Usenet (see my essay for more details on the history of Usenet). Meaningful commerce didn't occur on the internet until the 90's when the general public got access to the internet.
In other words, because of state intervention, social media came before commerce on the internet.
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I mean the social media apps that really got traction that came after the dotcom boom.
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I made a simple webpage that fetches Nostr posts with the hashtag #NostrClassifieds: https://nostr.bitejo.com Few people are using it but if it would become popular, it would be possible to sort by location, category, etc. No custom post type or custom relay because it's just a simple way to advertise your products/services and doesn't handle orders, payments or reviews.
LNBits NostrMarket https://github.com/lnbits/nostrmarket is more complex and has more features. Maybe a taxi app could be added there. But in many cases the technical parts are easy, and the true difficulty is finding users...
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Classsified don't matter much, tbh, it's the real time service networks: delivery, transportation, services/gigs i.e. fungible goods/services, which general objects being sold are not.
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