Build Your Own Nostr Relay with Quartz
A step-by-step guide to spinning up a NIP-01 compliant Nostr relay in Kotlin — transport-agnostic, policy-driven, and production-ready — using the Quartz library from the Amethyst project.
Vitor Pamplona
vitorpamplona.com
Nostr's Chief Android Officer - Amethyst Social
Relay Setup 101
You can either take control of your relay lists, or they will control you.
How to write a NIP
There is no right or wrong, but there is an easier and a harder way of doing it. Keep it simple, bring your ideas to the table, and enjoy the debates.
Does Size Matter? How big is too big?
Nostr is not in its infancy anymore. There's too much going on. Coding everything is not only not viable but it should become an anti-pattern. We should focus in Mini and Micro apps moving forward.
Zap-share slavery and the incentive war
Zap-share is a terrible revenue model for sustaining a Nostr Client. We must find a better way to align our applications with the user's interest.
