Data vending machines
This morning I was super inspired after watching Kody Low's presentation on twitter. It tied together L402 http payments, nostr's nip-90 data vending machine jobs, and ai agents.
I knew I had to implement something like this for my application. The use case I landed on was a Data vending machine that provides an algorithmic nostr feed based on top events that is wrapped with the L402 payments protocol, and a nostr client that can submit a job for a feed and receive the result.
The next step will be to incorporate the Ai agent so that you could talk to it to see what kind of algorithmic feeds are available, have it send a L402 payment, show you the result. And then do cool things like summarize the feed. I think this is the future. Instead of apps developing one algorithm to maximize profit, there can be a decentralized network of algorithm and users can decide which ones to see. An AI Agent can help find exactly what your looking for.
The algorithmic feed is really basic at this point, its hard coded to look at events of some popular people on nostr and returns the ones with the most reactions. I'm looking forward to improving this.
I had a lot of fun learning how to implement L402 and the data vending machine, you can check out my work here: