we could probably charge close to 10% but we like the number 6.15 😉

Thanks for your reply—you’ve made some great points.

We don’t currently have any arrangements with conferences. We plan to take a 6.15% commission on every ticket sold via the app, and since payments will be exclusively in Bitcoin and we run our own payment infra, this revenue is essentially all profit.

Perhaps we should make this clearer in our pitch deck!

hey siggy47, thanks for your comment

there's a lot of things we do to mitigate opsec:

we've been around 2 years and have more than 15k members, so far we managed to have 0 "wrench attacks"

we're all bitcoin maxi here and everything we build is with a privacy-first mindset

Hi Grayruby, Matteo here!

Thank you for your feedback and support—it’s greatly appreciated. For some context, we completed a pre-seed round last year at a $5M valuation, which was oversubscribed. Since then, we’ve more than doubled our metrics across the board, which is why we feel a $10M valuation is justified.

I’m curious, though—why do you believe event ticketing will compress margins?

Thanks again

yes, we use your device approx geolocation (10 miles radius) to show you nearby members, events and merchants.

here's the link to download the APK

Completely understand the frustration, unfortunately neither Apple nor Google allow bitcoin payment in-app so we've built it on our website:

Nostr is open and public OPA is closed and private

hard to see how the 2 could work together, but we're open to ideas

Your reply made me think of this quote:

"A ship in a harbor is safe but that is not what ships are built for"

😉

I really appreciate your openness in sharing these profound thoughts on human connection and loneliness. You’re right—humans are social animals, and the longing for deep, lasting relationships can be overwhelming when unmet. It’s tough when love, which we may take for granted at times, reveals itself to be irreplaceable.

One of the reasons we built Orange Pill App was to help address this very issue for Bitcoiners—connecting people who share the same values and worldview, fostering not just transactional interactions but genuine relationships. We realized that finding “your tribe” is crucial in a world where many people feel disconnected, even if surrounded by others.

Loneliness is something many of us have wrestled with, and while love is irreplaceable, finding like-minded individuals can help combat that sense of isolation. Sometimes, it’s not just about romantic love, but about belonging to a community that understands you, even if just through shared ideals.

I hope you find those meaningful connections, and I’m confident that, in the right environments, they’re out there. We built the app to make finding them a bit easier for Bitcoiners, but the journey of finding deeper connections remains one we all continue to navigate. Thanks for sharing your thoughts; you're not alone in them.

Matteo

It was supposed to be a secret project!!!

That education is paramount. Most of our users - who should be more interested in bitcoin than the average pleb - don't know the difference between an LN Address and an invoice or an LNURL.

We're so early.

We don't track users by city or region. We only have country data and here's the ranking

US Canada UK

However, since Canada has ~1/10th of US population it it our biggest market pro-capita

The ability to zap each other with one single click.

We still haven't decided if we're going to use Btcmap API or build our own database from scratch. Or a mix. Either way, we will have merchants on the app in Q1 of 2024.

thanks, should be fixed now