BitcoinFax is great!
I think Lightning as a way to pay for micro-services instead of a monthly subscription with a "free trial" like most Fax's services do is a game-changer.
Interesting. I'm super bullish on micro-payments disrupting many services.
Dall-E AI seems like its getting saturated quick though.
Given the name, Is your plan to go to expand to many services?
The first ones that come to mind are the services I rarely use, but need urgently at the time. (And the incumbents usually charge a monthly fee with a bunch of bloat I don't need).
Things like:
-Sending a fax
-Building a resume from a quality template
-Doing some kind of photoshopping like remove-bg.
That's actually very insightful! I'm really glad you mentioned this. It seems like there exists several products on the internet which charge subscription pricing but really should not be. Those products, as you described, are needed in the spur of the moment for a couple uses but are not valuable beyond that. Those products are the perfect usecase for micropayments.
I had the epiphany when I had to send a fax a few months ago and ended up signing up for a free trial that included like 100 faxes a month. Way overkill.
When I saw BitcoinFax it clicked.
There's an entire suite of services that can't sell micro-payments because the friction of typing in my credit card and creating an account for a 25 cent payment is too high.
Lightning can collapse and rethink so many fields like this.
Here are a few interesting projects/websites that use lightning in one way or another:
BoltCards are NFC enabled cards that you can use to pay with lightning just like you can pay with a credit card. There's no banks involved though, the PoS connects to your own node and gets the payment in sats. You can setup your BoltCards Open Source Server yourself(more information here), use an external service like ln.cash or use an exchange if you prefer.
LNURLVend. A $250 completely offline bitcoin vending machine using lightning. It's even battery powered, so you can just grab it and use it anywhere. Here's a video of it in action.
Sphinx. Decentralized chat/social media/etc, you can even sell your texts/photos/media out of the box. All using sats.
Alby. Use lightning in the browser. You can authenticate (no more user/pass), and make lightning transactions right from your browser. No need to switch between apps or creating invoices. All works seamlessly.
LNPay. Create lapps (lightning apps) easily by setting up paywalls or faucets with this service.
lightning-charge. A simple drop-in solution for accepting lightning payments.
Lightning Exchanges. List of exchanges that support withdrawals and sending bitcoin with lightning.
SolDirac. A Q/A website that pays you sats via lightning to answer the questions.
BTC Pay Server. Accept bitcoin with lightning at your store for free.
lightning address. Make your own lightning address for simpler payments in lightning.
zebedee API. API to use sats as micro-payments in games.
Mastering the Lightning Network. Github repository of the lightning book from Andreas Antonopoulos, where you can download the source code, and read the contents of the book for free.
Some great lightning wallets: If you just want the simplest non-custodial one, go with Muun. If you want the simplest custodial one, go with Wallet of Satoshi. If you want to be able to customize things a bit and maybe even use your own lightning node you can check out Breeze, BlueWallet, Phoenix. If you want a wallet with all the latest state of the art stuff implemented into it, check out Blixt. If you want to have full control of your lightning node, checkout Zeus.
Here you have some very good examples: