Sep

Announcing Plaza, a native Nostr client for macOS. 🎉 I built it because I wanted a feed that is already there when the window opens. Plaza keeps your notes in a local database and draws from disk first, then lets the relays catch up behind you. A feed query takes 0.28ms, so there is nothing to wait for. I wrote it in Zig. No Electron, no WebView, no browser hiding in the binary. It opens straight into a feed as well, with no sign-up or welcome wall, because reading Nostr never needed a key. Your key can stay out of it entirely if you want. Sign through Notary over NIP-46 and Plaza never sees it. Notary signs for other clients too, so it can be your signer everywhere rather than only here. It is early, and I would rather say so than have you find out: no DMs, no zaps, no search yet. If you are on macOS, tell me what breaks. And if you are not: what does your current client get wrong? https://zignostr.com/plaza https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zig-nostr/plaza/main/docs/shots/hero.jpg #nostr #buildinpublic

I'm making #plaza. a fast, native desktop client written in Zig that renders every pixel itself (no browser, no Electron, no JS), so it opens instantly and scrolls a local-first feed smoothly. your secret key never touches the client, signing runs in a bundled, isolated #signet signer. you can start browsing guest-first immediately, before ever creating or importing an identity. do you like it or what? 😂 nostr:npub1lrnvvs6z78s9yjqxxr38uyqkmn34lsaxznnqgd877j4z2qej3j5s09qnw5