Content and Community platform
Content, and community platform built on Nostr and fully Lightning integrated.
Content and Community platform
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Plebdevs is open source software and is still in early development. If you have any questions or bugs, drop an issue on the Github repo, or leave feedback below.

The PlebDevs subscription unlocks all paid content, grants access to our 1:1 calendar for tutoring, support, and mentorship, and grants you your own personal plebdevs.com Lightning Address and Nostr NIP-05 identity.
Subscribe monthly with a pay-as-you-go option or set up an auto-recurring subscription using Nostr Wallet Connect.
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Content Distribution:
All content is published to Nostr and actively pulled from Nostr relays
- Nostr: Content is stored on and read from Nostr relays however a database is used for storing metadata and filtering content.
- Zaps: Zaps are currently initated through Zapper - https://zapper.nostrapps.org
- Comments: For comments we are leveraging ZapThreads - https://zapthreads.com
Content Types:
High signal, Bitcoin, Lightning, and Nostr educational content.
- Documents: Markdown documents posted as NIP-23 long-form events on Nostr.
- Videos: Formatted markdown documents with rich media support, including embedded videos, also saved as NIP-23 events.
- Courses: Nostr lists (NIP-51) that combines multiple documents and videos into a structured learning path.
Content Monetization:
All content is zappable and some content is PAID requiring a Lightning purchase or Subscription through the platform for permanent access.
- Free: Free content is available to all users.
* can be viewed on PlebDevs or any nostr client that supports NIP-23 and NIP-51. - Paid: Paid content is available for purchase with Lightning.
* published to nostr but encrypted with plebdevs private key, currently only viewable on PlebDevs platform.
Subscriptions:
The PlebDevs subscription unlocks all paid content, gives access to our 1:1 calendar for tutoring/help, and grants you a plebdevs.com Lightning Address and Nostr NIP-05 identity.
- Pay-as-you-go: 50,000 sats - A one-time payment that gives you access to all of the premium features for one month
* you will need to manually renew your subscription every month. - Recurring: 50,000 sats - A subscription option allows you to submit a Nostr Wallet Connect URI that will be used to automatically send the subscription fee every month
* you can cancel at any time.
Feeds:
All of the current PlebDevs Community channels.
- Nostr: Public plebdevs nostr chat (Read / Write)
* this is the only feed that you can write to from the plebdevs platform currently. - Discord: PlebDevs Discord server (Read Only)
* discord was the original home of the PlebDevs community, look at us now! - StackerNews: StackerNews ~devs territory (Read Only)
* a territory is like a 'subreddit' on stackernews, plebdevs owns the ~devs territory.
Tech Stack:
Frontend:
- Next.js: A React framework for building server-side rendered (SSR) web applications.
- Tailwind CSS: A utility-first CSS framework for rapidly building custom designs.
- PrimeReact: A React UI library for building modern, responsive web applications.
Backend:
- Prisma: A database toolkit for Node.js and TypeScript.
- PostgreSQL: A powerful, open source object-relational database system.
- Redis: An in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache, and message broker.
Infrastructure:
- Vercel: A cloud platform for building modern web applications.
- Docker: A platform for building, shipping, and running distributed applications.
- Digital Ocean (CDN): A cloud platform for building modern web applications.
Open Source Tools:
- NDK: Nostr Development Kit - https://github.com/nostr-dev-kit/ndk
- nostr-tools: React framework for building Nostr applications - https://github.com/fiatjaf/nostr-tools
- Bitcoin Connect: A simple open source tool for connecting to Lightning wallets and facilitating payments - https://github.com/getAlby/bitcoin-connect
- Alby JS SDK: JavaScript SDK for the Alby OAuth2 Wallet API and the Nostr Wallet Connect API. - https://github.com/getAlby/js-sdk
- Zapthreads: A Nostr-based commenting system - https://github.com/franzaps/zapthreads
- Zapper: A Nostr-based tipping platform - https://github.com/nostrband/zapper