vega/ROADMAP.md

Wrystr — Next Steps Roadmap

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Vision note: more than a Nostr client

Wrystr is not just a great desktop Nostr client. Long-form content is a first-class, distinguishing feature of this project — not an afterthought, not a checkbox NIP.

The article editor (NIP-23), the reading experience, the writing tools around it — these set Wrystr apart from other clients and define its identity. Think of it as a publishing platform that happens to live on Nostr, not a social feed that happens to support articles.

TODO — brainstorm needed: What does "owning long-form on Nostr desktop" actually look like? Reading experience, discovery, editor features, monetization via zaps, cross-posting, author identity — all of this needs a dedicated design session. Leave this as an open thread until we sit down to work through it properly.

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Up next

1. OS Keychain via Rust (Tauri backend)

• Security-critical: private keys currently live in NDK signer memory only
• nsec sessions don't survive app restart — keychain fixes this permanently
• Tauri has keychain plugins ready (tauri-plugin-keychain)

2. SQLite note caching

• Notes disappear on every restart — no local persistence
• Would make the app feel dramatically more solid and fast
• Rust backend is the right place for this

3. About / Funding page

• Hardcoded in-app page with all support options
• Bitcoin on-chain address with scannable QR code
• Lightning address with scannable QR code
• Zap button (zap the developer's npub directly from within the app)
• Links: GitHub (hoornet), Ko-fi/Jure, and any other funding sources
• Lives in the sidebar footer or as a dedicated view — tasteful, never nagging
• Ties into the zap infrastructure already built

4. Mute / ignore user + anti-spam

• "Ignore this user" from profile or note context menu (NIP-51 mute list)
• Mute list persisted to Nostr so it follows you across clients
• Settings toggles for basic spam filters (e.g. hide notes from accounts < N days old, hide notes with no followers, hide pure bot patterns)
• Consider: Web of Trust (WOT) score as an optional feed filter — needs design session

5. Quote / Repost (NIP-18)

• "Quote" wraps a note in your own post with added commentary
• "Repost" is a plain re-broadcast (kind 6)
• Both are standard and expected by Nostr users
• Quote is more valuable — it drives conversation

6. Sidebar: collapsible to icon-only + auto-hide

• Toggle already exists (clicking WRYSTR collapses to w-12 icons), but it's not obvious
• Make the toggle affordance clearer — a visible ‹ / › button
• Auto-hide mode: sidebar expands on hover/click, collapses automatically after N seconds of activity in the main pane
• Most important: the icon-only state should be the default or easily reachable

7. Profile helpers for newcomers

• NIP-05: link to a guide or offer a basic self-hosted verification path
• Avatar / banner image upload: instead of pasting a URL, let users upload directly (NIP-96 file storage or a simple Blossom upload via Tauri)
• Newcomers fill in a URL field and have no idea what to put — this is a friction point

8. Search: improve full-text + people

• NIP-50 full-text (bitcoin query) returns zero results on most relays — the UI should detect this and suggest using #hashtag instead, or show which relays support it
• People search only works on NIP-50-capable relays; most don't support it
• Consider: local people search by scanning follows-of-follows graph

9. Direct Messages (NIP-44 / NIP-17)

• Significant complexity (encryption, key handling, inbox model)
• Major feature gap but non-trivial to implement well
• NIP-17 (private DMs) is the modern standard; NIP-44 is the encryption layer

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TODO — brainstorm sessions needed

UI / look & feel

• After Windows playtest: full design review of native feel, spacing, typography
• The current UI is functional but has "amateur web app" feel on some surfaces
• Target bar remains Telegram Desktop — fast, keyboard-navigable, feels native not webby
• Specific surfaces to revisit: note cards, thread view, profile header, modals

Web of Trust (WOT)

• Nostr has a concept of social graph distance for trust scoring
• Could power: feed ranking, spam filtering, people search, follow suggestions
• Worth exploring but needs a dedicated design session — not a simple feature add

Long-form reading experience

• We write articles but there's no reader view
• Discovery, recommendations, reading history, estimated read time
• This is a major differentiator — needs its own design session

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What's already done

• Onboarding: key generation, nsec backup, plain-language UX, no extension required
• Global + following feed, compose, reply, thread view
• Reactions (NIP-25) with live network counts
• Follow / Unfollow (NIP-02), contact list publishing
• Profile view + edit (kind 0) — bug fix: own profile now updates immediately after save
• Long-form article editor (NIP-23) with draft auto-save
• Zaps: NWC wallet connect (NIP-47) + NIP-57 via NDKZapper, amount presets, comment
• Search: NIP-50 full-text, hashtag (#t filter), people with inline follow
• Settings: relay add/remove (live + persisted), NWC wallet setup, npub copy
• Sidebar: collapsible to icon-only (click WRYSTR to toggle)
• Read-only mode: npub login hides all write actions correctly
• Note rendering (images, video, mentions, hashtags)
• Relay connection status view
• NDK 3.x wrapper for all Nostr interactions
• GitHub Actions release: Linux AppImage, Windows exe/msi, macOS ARM dmg