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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @nout 21 Aug \ parent \ on: I Created a True Censorship Resistant Game Mods Platform, DEG Mods. gaming
Got it, makes sense. One thing to be a bit careful with those modding communities I highlighted is that it's a bunch of dads in their 40s 50s and their preferred UI style is Windows 95. I don't mean this as a joke - be prepared that they may find your modern ui/ux off-putting. Another aspect is to get the vibe of the community first before reaching out to them - e.g. by reading their posts, noticing who are the community drivers, etc. Some modders may care about backups, some may care about having more users, some may care about adding monetization... (btw, monetization is a big win on BTC/LN/Nostr here).
Just brainstorming here since it probably doesn't fit under your definition, but there is a big community of indie game devs e.g. on https://itch.io/ that has some forms of monetization, but as usual with fiat based solutions - it excludes a lot of potential users, the UX of paying sucks, there are fees and middlemen... it would be amazing to have something similar to itch.io while being able to zap the devs couple sats with a single button click. I'm a big fan of pico-8 (I even wrote a top games article on SN) and I would love to be able to zap these devs some sats for games I like.
Separately, I asked the questions about your financing/company plans from the perspective of being Angel investor in early stage companies that do something good for the world based on bitcoin/nostr - so if you would need something like that in any reasonable form, then howl my way :)
Yea, I get what you mean. I have a big brother and he's definitely into a forum-style type of online socializing in regards to communities. I'm aware of the method of first vibing with a community and building up a stronger connection before a "heeey look at my thing. would love your thoughts and support". Even having just a little bit of social interaction and time before posting something helps lessen the blow and increase the "ok, so what's this" tolerance. Also, yea as you mentioned, knowing the top-Gs of a community in regards to what they value helps with the message delivery.
Definitely, BTC/LN with Nostr was a core to develop with the site for the passed first release. It opens up all roles (gamers, modders, gamedevs) to spend and receive without restriction and headaches (this is from experience as I'm in an environment where its extremely difficult to use fiat systems).
Funny you brainstorm-suggested that, because of two points:
- I'm a massive indie game lover, and a noob indie gamedev as well, and I've also covered indie game news/previews/reviews and have interviewed multiple indie devs as well (among other things like being a part of running local gamejams and game test night events in the past), under different names.
- I actually wrote about what it would be like to have a platform like Steam (/ like itch) on Nostr check it out if you're interested, where if everything went smoothly with DEG Mods and it became relatively successful, I was thinking of soft-starting on doing just that, where DEG Mod's development would help expedite planning, design, and development of such a platform, but of course, the scope would be much larger and there would be more variables and problems to solve, but if it ever comes to it, I'm confident it can be done =3
Ah, gotcha. It would definitely help speed things up if funds came in, as I'm basically trying to get more jobs to spend personal funds on to pass the next development milestones, which would take time. The main reason why there's reluctance on my end about starting a company is because of where I am and my nationality if we're talking about setting up a company to receive traditional investments. We can move this specific discussion via DMs on Nostr if you'd like, to discuss options, what's possible, roadblocks, and so on. (I just followed you).
(btw i think your nostr link in SN in your profile is broken. Seems like they've changed the URL structure and that's why its not leading to your profile correctly)