Some days, building on Nostr is a lonely task.

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Some days, building on Nostr is a lonely task.
There are only a handful of regular users who really see it and appreciate what is being built. A lot of people notice what is missing, what is broken, or where things still fall short. Sometimes that feedback is useful. Sometimes it just wears on you.
We do not have funding to hire a big team. We are scrappy. Everyone helping is also working on their own projects, jobs, families, and responsibilities. That makes me even more grateful for the people who still show up, contribute, test, encourage, and help move things forward.
Part of this is on me too. I can get excited about the whole stack: the protocol, the wallet, the marketplace, the AI tools, the recipes, the community layer, and the idea of a more open web. The technical side is cool, and it matters. It is what makes this different.
But most people do not care about the tech behind the scenes. They do not care what relay something came from or what NIP powers a feature. They just want it to work. They want it to feel simple, useful, and worth coming back to. That is something I need to keep getting better at.
It is also hard to explain this vision to people outside of it. I cannot really talk to my family about it. It feels too far out there for them. I cannot really talk to my normie friends or co-workers about it either. They have their own lives and their own problems, and they are just trying to make it through the day.
I am not pretending money does not matter. It does. If this is going to last, it has to become sustainable. But money is not the thing that gives me the energy to keep coming back. The energy comes from trying to build something that matters. Something that can outlast me. Something that gives people a better internet experience, where their identity, their data, their money, and their community are not owned by someone else.
Maybe that sounds too big or too idealistic. Maybe it is. But I would rather spend my time trying to build that than complain about the internet we already have.
So we keep building, but we also keep learning. We listen to the feedback that is useful. We stop taking every criticism personally. We make the product easier to understand. We improve the first experience. We support the people who support us.
Maybe someday the growth comes. Maybe it does not come the way we expect. But the work still matters.
Nostr is worth building on. Open protocols are worth fighting for. A better internet is worth pursuing.
So we keep going. Always forward 🚀
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