Thank you, Rizful.com! I’m honored to be featured today. 🤩
I barely consider myself a developer, as I come from the creative, branding, and marketing side, but I’ve always wanted to be able to put my ideas into motion with code. Building software with AI was not even on my radar a year ago. It wasn’t until someone introduced me to Lovable, and then I tried Cursor and Claude that I really began to understand the potential.
After seeing Bitchat, I took a stab at forking a Lightning payment app called Buzzpay to create a new look and feel and add an enhanced feature set. In just a couple of weeks, the first release of Sats Factory was up and running, and is now being piloted at two local restaurants. My next project was Sidecar, a lite Nostr client Chrome extension that lives in the browser sidebar. I created it so I could have a constant feed of my timeline available when I’m browsing any website. It’s not finished yet, and the reason for that is how I got to where we are today.
As an early Nostr adopter from December 2022, I’ve accumulated an above average number of follows. I guess my desire to have an active feed of as much interesting content as possible led me to follow over 3500 users. Of course, there’s been a lot of drop-off, and a full third of my follows had become inactive. This meant that my follow list was full of a lot of dead weight, and as I learned from attempting to build a client app, this caused all sorts of problems with relays, and was slowing down my development and testing process.
So I decided to pivot, and build something that could benefit not just myself, but the entire Nostr community, because I knew I wasn’t the only one hoarding useless dormant npubs in my follow list. Plebs vs. Zombies is a follow list manager and a backup tool, but I knew it had to also be a gamified experience, so people would want to use it and share it. In addition to being able to purge or nuke any and all zombies you find, you can also grant immunity to the ones you hope will come back, and scout the follows of your friends to help them lighten their load.
I hope you all enjoy it, and for the rest of October, we’ll be running a friendly competition to see who can purge the most zombies from their feed. I'll also be announcing an updated and expanded prize pool shortly.
More on that very soon — stay tuned! 💜⚡️🤙