buttercat1791 on Nostr: Relay AUTH for closed groups is just the beginning. Imagine running a small, ...
Relay AUTH for closed groups is just the beginning.
Imagine running a small, authenticated relay on your laptop. You could sit down in a coffee shop, turn the relay on, and have your project group sit down with you, log on and share notes and documents over the local wifi. Maybe the relay could use your local filesystem as a backend store for documents and images. Other members of your group might use the same setup, and everyone's respective local relays could use negentropy to stay in sync. Now you have a self-hosted collaboration network that you can pop up anywhere and that requires no central servers.
Relays used to exchange git events for Git over Nostr could run alongside a push notification service. When one of your contributors opens a new patch proposal, you can get notified instantly on your phone. You can even connect to that relay and comment on the proposal while you're on the go.
Attach a relay to a small server that imports calendar events to a shared calendar. Anyone who has access to that calendar can run a small utility that uploads calendar files, such as .ical, to the server. The server transforms those into a Nostr event and drops it onto the relay. A push notification then goes out to every device in the calendar group to tell the clients to fetch the new event.
So far all of our innovation has focused on making better clients, but a smart client will only get you so far. Nostr's secret sauce is its relays; when we realize that, it will open up whole new horizons.
Imagine running a small, authenticated relay on your laptop. You could sit down in a coffee shop, turn the relay on, and have your project group sit down with you, log on and share notes and documents over the local wifi. Maybe the relay could use your local filesystem as a backend store for documents and images. Other members of your group might use the same setup, and everyone's respective local relays could use negentropy to stay in sync. Now you have a self-hosted collaboration network that you can pop up anywhere and that requires no central servers.
Relays used to exchange git events for Git over Nostr could run alongside a push notification service. When one of your contributors opens a new patch proposal, you can get notified instantly on your phone. You can even connect to that relay and comment on the proposal while you're on the go.
Attach a relay to a small server that imports calendar events to a shared calendar. Anyone who has access to that calendar can run a small utility that uploads calendar files, such as .ical, to the server. The server transforms those into a Nostr event and drops it onto the relay. A push notification then goes out to every device in the calendar group to tell the clients to fetch the new event.
So far all of our innovation has focused on making better clients, but a smart client will only get you so far. Nostr's secret sauce is its relays; when we realize that, it will open up whole new horizons.