lil-web3 VS nostr

What's the hungup with normal tutorials? There's a plethora of tutorials online.

People recommend ethernauts and cryptozombies, but I found those quite slow when I was learning. Most useful for me was reading existing implementations of smart contracts, and learning from there.

M1guelpf wrote these a while ago, might be helpful examples: https://github.com/m1guelpf/lil-web3

happy to chat if you need help

If you’re trying to get started, lil-web3 is a github repo with lots of simplified versions of popular smart contracts. It should help you to grasp the core functionality before you try to understand all of the other content in each contract.

thirdweb is a pretty easy way to get started if you’re an experienced web developer. we use them internally at our web3 dev education startup for creating and sending nfts to folks who complete our tutorials.

we have a tutorial with them going on where we show you how to build a full stack web3 app with their sdks/platform. we’re rewarding folks who complete the tutorial with a bit of $MATIC and a cool nft[1]

another cool resource after you get your feet wet is this collection of tiny examples of popular web3 apps[2]

1 - https://www.pointer.gg/tutorials/thirdweb-nft-lootbox

2 - https://github.com/m1guelpf/lil-web3

beyond tutorials i also think learning by trying to build your own version of other projects is a pretty cool way to progress. Here's a cool repo that does this https://github.com/m1guelpf/lil-web3 , the author builds out mini version of ENS, opensea, etc

Other things that might be worth looking into: Nostr for comms https://github.com/fiatjaf/nostr

nostr (https://github.com/fiatjaf/nostr) seems to be a minimal possible solution. It doesn't seem to be much in use though, so I guess once that happens a few issues will come up.

Nostr [1] seems interesting. I don't trust the idea of "relays" on the long term but it seems like it should be possible to develop alternative ways to distribute the content, and it can be a way to bootstrap the network in the short term. Though at this moment it seems a bit too bare-bones, and it would need some interesting application built on top of it to make it usable.

[1] https://github.com/fiatjaf/nostr

https://github.com/fiatjaf/nostr comes to mind as so far the best example of p2p social networking.

I don’t know if this is the answer you’re looking for because it’s not tied to a cryptocurrency but take a look at nostr: https://github.com/fiatjaf/nostr

It’s a protocol that allows nodes to gossip event messages amongst each other. The event relays can be used as a backend to provide data to your web/desktop/mobile apps.

Nostr stands for "Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays". It is a new type of social experience on the web where "dumb" relays can be used to send messages from one user to another, in a secure, censorship resistant manner.