Micro sports betting. @ekzyis fixes this.

I've got an idea. Let me first state the problem. Let us say we want to order some physical product from somewhere near or far, and that product needs a delivery address. I would like to be able to obscure the physical address for delivery, w/o using a PO box. How could physical addresses be rendered in LN adresses? This also brings to mind mapping the physical world onto Bitcoin or Lightning thru use of Geo addresses encoded onto Ordinals or something of the sort.

Bingo hall for bitcoin. Gotta get those old people on board somehow

I always thought that having vending machines that accept Bitcoin along with fiat as the easiest way to get more adoption. You can set up these vending machines everywhere. More people will get exposed to Bitcoin and they can see that you can actually buy things with Bitcoin so it wouldn't only be seen as an investment.

I’d like to see a music app that uses lightning payments per song or per second instead of a subscription service.

LN_AUTH to log in, load 10k sats into your account, pay 1 sat per song. No KYC no subscription, just P2P exchange if sat for music.

onboarding merchants - the best idea. Help all the merchants around you to accept BTC. Is the best way to go forward.

I think lightning can be used in events to create a circular economy between fans and performers. Imagine the entrance fee includes a fan interaction debit card loaded with sats and different tiers for certain privileges. From a merchant point of view, this would be good because it would encourage users to spend their balance in the circular economy. From a consumer point of view, it would allow them to exchange value for value in however they see fit.

Lightning-enabled IOT. Hardware that is flexible, modular and that works out the box.

Either DIY kits or preloaded with software. Lightbulbs, switches, relays, cameras, speakers, power monitors, batteries, scales, routers… all customisable that could make a lightning payment when used, turned on or state changes.

Use cases:

In general would love to see more of this fun stuff, to pick-up and run with (pun intended). Building on what MakerBits is doing. It’s the type of stuff that inspires the next generation.

When i go to events and see a in-house raffle going on, cant help but dream of the lightning application.

Imagine you are running say a local minor league baseball team. You want to do a raffle during your game where you send employees out into the stadium to hawk raffle tickets then later in the game youll announce the winner. Instead of cash, you could have people send sats to the raffle, at whatever denomination, and could even display in real time the amount in the pool, likelihood per sat to win, payout amt, etc. You dont even need employees to hawk it, just have the qr code for sending. Could couple with nostr nicely too to easily ID who is sending what 🤙

The world ran out of good lightning businesses 100 startups ok, so you tell us, what does it mean to be the "best" out of lousy businesses that should not exist? The best one is to sit on your ass and do nothing, then your value will be 0. Everyone else will be negative. Maybe check back in 2 years to see if it's different.

Here's one idea, expert advice platform in exchange for streaming sats. A platform where you can chat or book calls with experts for their opinion/consultations on specific topics (think lawyers, engineers, doctors, etc.) in exchange for sats. (fixed or variable amount of sats per unit of time).

There should be as well a reputation / vouching mechanism with some sats redistributed for those who vouched for / referred the expert.

And here's another idea coming from my hate of voice messages. Imagine if you can paywall voice messages on messaging apps with sats whereby the sender would incentivize the receiver to hear an audio message by streaming sats to them OR the receiver can set a sats rate per seconds for audio messages received.

That way, people would be incentivized to send succinct and essential voice messages and no time would be wasted hearing 5 mins of audio that can be summarized in 3 bullet points.

Telegarm has an option for premium users whereby you can opt out of receiving audio messages. It would be nice to take that one step further and paywall it.

I would like to see some sort of decentralized Uber type ride sharing service that relies on reputation and peer-based connections for trust.

Amateur and professional voice acting like narration, fun lines for ads or whatever.

Also proofreading or translations for writers maybe?

Mine.

Paid P2P wifi hotspots.

A raspberry Pi + a tiny WiFi router could be plugged in absolutely everywhere by entrepreneurs who have a few sats to spend on this cheap box. Imagine putting one in a starbucks.

Anyone with a phone, tablet, or laptop that wants some cheap, anonymous internets can simply log into it with LNAuth and pay for internet at a sats per minute rate. Today's WiFi spec (802.11ax) is highly efficient and operates on all 3 wifi channels. Great range & bandwidth.

Think of Jack Maller's streaming subscriptions video. That tech would bring a magical feel to this app.

I go to a lot of craft shows and community markets.

These places are so ripe for using bitcoin over lightning.

Everyone's got the "Square" payment hardware which, somehow knows your email address for sending receipts.

A single QR code connected to a wallet or other app that can integrate with transmitting receipts back, perhaps with a time limit on the KYC info, would be a good substitute.

Github on lightning like SN. I believe Jack Dorsey offering funding for Github on Nostr which would work

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Asking for a friend, eh?

Good question though

An API call payment processor

Some kind of commitment contract, to help motivate you do to things and avoid procrastination. Like Stickk (https://www.stickk.com/) but using zaps.

Here's the definition of Commitment Contract as per Stickk: A Commitment Contract is a binding agreement you sign with yourself to ensure that you follow through with your intentions—and it does this by utilizing the psychological power of loss aversion and accountability to drive behavior change.

So if you had a goal of, say, writing a blog post weekly, you could put that in the contract, along with some sats as a bond. You find a partner to hold you accountable. The partners job is to review the photo or link (or whatever evidence you provide) to make sure you did what you planned.

For instance, if you've been procrastinating on cleaning out the garage, you could post the before picture as a part of the contract, and then the after picture, with a clean garage. Your partner would agree - your garage is now clean - and the sats would get returned.

You'd make a profit by organizing this, connecting people, setting up the agreement - setters with the agreement - validators. And you'd take a percentage. Or maybe have a subscription model, where you charge people X amount a month and let them make these contracts.

People are looking for this type of thing. Check out flow.club. People want accountability.

HQ Trivia powered by Lightning.

Many more people can earn than in the original game, and instant payouts too.

This was fun to think about! Okay, I’m surprised that companies have not utilised the Lightning Network to conduct guerrilla marketing yet. They could announce to the public to be on the hunt for a specific number of QR codes scattered all over the city on public transport, shopping malls, amenities and so on. So, as you scan a QR code, you will be rewarded with some sats and required to read/watch an advertisement by the sponsoring company. Participants who manage to scan all the QR codes will be treated to even more sats as a bonus. I guarantee that the use of the Lightning Network will spike because it appeals to people’s competitive nature.

As an educator, I wish some companies engage students as part of their Corporate Social Responsibility efforts. Students who submit something they learn to a cloud platform will be rewarded with 21 sats as a small token of appreciation for their learning. I guarantee that youths’ motivation levels towards studying will increase since their submission will be viewed by others. Also, they get to earn just by studying. Who can complain about my logic?

This is amazing then

Ok, I will tell you what I think, building a local classified website purposely build for people to sell their unwanted stuff for their first bitcoin. How was that?

What about real world LN business aplications?