I've created this app.. 😉

appreciate all the questions, just keep in mind that nothing is free.

sure, we could monitor every single message, run censorship algos, and sell users data to pay the bills.

but I'm not interested in building a facebook for bitcoiners.

nah, we would get flooded with spammers & scammers.

the paywall is what makes OPA a special place, with no spammers, scammers, shipcoiners, ads etc etc

best way to find out, is to signup and try for yourself

finding local bitcoiners on nostr is possible but very difficult.

we make that super-easy.

silly me..

have I?

meetups require an organizer and a venue. with OPA you can meet other bitcoiners as you see fit.

take a look here to get an idea: https://www.orangepillapp.com/reviews

we have looked into this but it's not technically feasible, we don't even have a feed

meetups are great but are not scalable.

for the record, everybody has to pay to use bitcoin

Nostr is great for finding plebs online. OPA is great for finding plebs offline.

Completely different products

thanks for the welcome, happy to be here

Our mission is to help create as many IRL connections amongst Bitcoiners as possible and to facilitate the Bitcoin parallel economy, at scale.

As the saying goes: "if something is free you are the product". Building, maintaining, and promoting an app is very expensive. By asking everybody to pay to use the app we eliminate the noise (bots, scams, spammers, shipcoiners, fake account, etc...) and we will never have to track or sell your data to the highest bidder. This way, we can remain independent and prioritize our members first.

we're looking for long-term members.

We're not open source. The device's approximate geolocation is pulled once per app session.

Exactly, the idea of charging everybody to join OPA came from thinking about proof of work.

I won't share our email list but feel free to send me a DM in the app https://orangepill.app.link/matteopellegrini