GM and a happy New Year, Nostriches.
We at nostr:npub1s3ht77dq4zqnya8vjun5jp3p44pr794ru36d0ltxu65chljw8xjqd975wz have reached another milestone, on our way to #Alexandria v 0.1.0 (Gutenberg edition).
We have printed the entire Bible using 30040/30041 notes and made them available for you to peruse, using a pre-release of our Nostr client. The books are broken down by chapter. Breakdowns by verse will be delivered with the beta release. In addition, we have printed "Jane Eyre", so that you get some idea of how quickly a full-length novel can load. We are working on making it faster, with pagination, but this is already surprisingly quick.
You can't yet use the client to upload books (please use the e-book CLI, for that), and it's all a bit buggy and wonky, but we have already implemented a first pass at the Visualization page.
Feel free to view the Asciidoc test data, here: https://next-alexandria.gitcitadel.eu/. You can log in with a browser extension. (We are still working on the site certificate. Please excuse the mess.)
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We're probably launching #Alexandria v0.1.0 this month (so keeping to our Road Map yay!), and we started in July, working part-time. Although, it's a whole platform, with multiple sysadmins and a data analyst, and a new SDK, and stuff, and multiple new NUDs, and not just a list microclient, or something.
But still, building it is way harder than building the original Kind 01 clients because there are so many "Basic NIPs", now, and they're complex. You have to build all of them and then add your own twist on top. Have to really have a tight story board, unless you're a lone wolf, and lone wolf development has become onerous.
And there's no real market for microclients because it's much easier to add one more feature to a bigger app, than to create a new app containing that feature. The friction of moving end users from one app to another is too high. Making a market for plug-ins or extensions, is better, so we're concentrating on that.
We realized that, early on, after I did some market research, and decided we need to Go Big Or Go Home. We're sticking to enterprise-level development, where we have a strategic advantage because we're professionals and used to handling larger projects.
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