Liz on Nostr: Zapstore is an example of what makes Nostr—and the permissionless tech ...

Zapstore (npub10r8…t2p8) is an example of what makes Nostr—and the permissionless tech movement—so impactful, relevant, and immediate. In addition to franzap (npub1wf4…dgh9) and team doing incredible work on the product, they’re also generous with their time and helping other projects (including helping us fix the issue we’ve been having with getting c4a39f1291291d452405cd8ddd798c4a29a3858c52cd0d843f1f6852cf17682e (npub1cj3…klr7) correctly set up in Zapstore!). Their effort and engagement as part of the Foundry is one of the things that makes the AOS (npub1t5u…j4c2) community what it is.

p.s. No one is taking my em-dashes away.

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I burned several days over the last few months jumping through Apple and Google's App store hoops - DUNS numbers, identity verification, encryption documentation, half a dozen wizards about content in the app, privacy, and of course then the days long review process itself.

I've never published anything to https://zapstore.dev before and I just did it in 20 minutes. That includes me reading through the documentation and futzing with my Android keystore for several minutes which I had previously misconfigured. Absolutely delightful experience.

I'm hopeful that Google's blocking of third party apps and app stores is going to cause a flourishing of third party stores like Zapstore (and de-googled Android). The old systems are broken. I have to assume the deluge of vibe-coded apps is why my Apple review took 18 days. I want an app store where I pay security auditors to compile the apps themselves and go over the code with a fine-toothed comb. F-droid already has some custom repositories that more or less work this way. Zapstore has better infrastructure for this with the Vertex web-of-trust and app catalogs.