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New features of magic webstore: store metadata, nostr auth, notifications & more

3866 sats \ 25 comments \ @supertestnet 10 Aug 2023 bitcoin

New features of https://magicwebstore.xyz:

Store metadata: view any store's activity metrics
Nostr auth: connect your store to your nostr identity
Notifications: authed merchants get a DM when they get a sale
Visa gift cards: turn your store proceeds into dollars

Try it out today! magicwebstore.xyz

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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @JulienPH 10 Aug 2023

Super cool, thanks. I'll be testing it.

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @tehk21 11 Aug 2023 freebie

How to get LN?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @supertestnet OP 11 Aug 2023

LN already works, fully automatically. Go try it!

10 sats \ 15 replies \ @k00b 11 Aug 2023

wen lightning? You said you'd add non-lnbits lightning if I implemented zap metadata notifications

100 sats \ 14 replies \ @supertestnet OP 11 Aug 2023

It's sort of a long story. I'll tell it in bullet point format

There are several ways to add non-lnbits lightning
To me, the most promising ways are NWC and LNC
I looked at LNC first and misunderstood it, thought it can't do what I need
Then I looked at NWC and found out it definitely can't do what I need
But I know the NWC guys pretty well so I asked them to modify it
That modification is now in progress but not done yet (more info here)
After that I found out LNC can do what I need
But very inefficiently -- e.g. only one person at a time could use the checkout page
So LNC seems like a poor option and I'm just awaiting the NWC modifications
In the meantime, I already have instructions for hooking it up to your own lnbits
So self-hosting is already possible, the NWC stuff will just (hopefully) make it easier

0 sats \ 13 replies \ @k00b 11 Aug 2023

But very inefficiently -- e.g. only one person at a time could use the checkout page

What's the exact limitation here? You can only have one active lnc connection at a time?

1010 sats \ 12 replies \ @supertestnet OP 11 Aug 2023

I haven't looked into the why so I can only guess a reason based on my experience.

My experience is this: I created an LNC connection string that only has permission to create invoices and read info from my node.

Then I published that LNC connection string on one of my test stores -- my "Alice" store.

Then I pretended to be a customer -- "Bob" -- and I used the LNC connection string to connect to Alice's node and load an invoice. It all worked as expected so far: I saw a nice, shiny invoice and I could display it as a qr code for Bob to pay.

Then, while Bob was still viewing that invoice, I pretended to be a second customer -- "Carol" -- and I tried to do the same thing Bob did: I tried to use the LNC connection string to connect to Alice's node and load an invoice. But it did not work. I got an error that said something like "the connection is already in use."

My guess is that the LNC devs were very motivated to ensure that each LNC connection string is only used for one service. I think they don't want two devices to both have access to the same node via the same connection string -- they want some sort of "separation of strings," so that you give a new string to every service.

My guess is this: to help ensure that users do not share a string between two devices, they handicapped the strings so that they cannot establish two simultaneous open connections. Consequently if Bob is using it, Carol cannot.

Therefore, if I used LNC, Bob could effectively bring down a store's lightning capability by using up its only available connection. He could just get an invoice and constantly keep a connection open to check its status, without ever intending to pay. I don't want that so I don't want to use LNC.

2 sats \ 11 replies \ @76d8a3c32b 12 Aug 2023 freebie

Super, can you specify exactly what is happening? I tried to reproduce your issue but couldn't.

I have one node, and generated 3 LNC pairing phrases. I put one pairing phrase in Zeus on my android phone. I put a different one in Zeus on my graphene phone. And I put a different one in terminal web.

I generated an invoice on each service, 3000,4000,5000 and it all generated fine.

0 sats \ 10 replies \ @k00b 12 Aug 2023

He wants the same pairing phrase to be used by N devices simultaneously.

His use case is a website store owner allowing many customers to request invoices from the store owner's node using the same pairing phrase.

2 sats \ 9 replies \ @76d8a3c32b 12 Aug 2023 freebie

Okay got it. Makes more sense now. I just tested it myself and I generated an invoice that expires in 5 minutes on my Zeus connected via LNC. Closed the app, then opened again and generated a different invoice with an expiry of 4 minutes with no issue.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @76d8a3c32b 12 Aug 2023

Just tested with alby and terminal web. I generated multiple invoices in quick succession using the same LNC pairing phrase with expires of 1 day.

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0 sats \ 7 replies \ @k00b 12 Aug 2023

I believe you'd recreate the issue by creating multiple concurrent LNC connections with the same pairing phrase. You created multiple serially.

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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @03cf8684ea 11 Aug 2023

Nice. The project is great

10 sats \ 3 replies \ @BBitcoinUSA 11 Aug 2023

Is there a good crash course to learn how to integrate this into an existing website, ie on my “Store” page?

158 sats \ 2 replies \ @supertestnet OP 11 Aug 2023

You can use an iframe to display your store on any page. Here's a tutorial on iframes: https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_iframe.ASP

4 sats \ 0 replies \ @BBitcoinUSA 11 Aug 2023

Great, thank you for this

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Natalia 1 Mar

I tried this, but didn't manage to get it work - it works with

<iframe src="https://magicwebstore.xyz/" title=" store">
</iframe>

but not working with the store that point to my public key. 🤔

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Natalia 1 Mar

thanks for your amazing work @supertestnet I love the simplicity of magicwebstore, but here are some improvement suggestions:

how about having more pricing options besides usd? And it would be nice if the default price that is showing on the product is in sats, so the seller can set the price in fiat, but the showing price is sats or showing both.
it would be nice if the descriptions were integrated with the markdown format, now everything is blended in together if you have a long description, a bit hard to read.

Enter instructions for how to deliver your digital good(s) (e.g., email address? telegram handle? Please leave detailed instructions about what you want us to do)

How about letting people choose? (the seller can set the options in the dashboard )

Email address
Telegram
Nostr

Then, all people need to do is simply click and input their contact / ID. Otherwise, too much friction might affect the buying rate. 👀