Kicking Off Mentor Market

We're kicking off the Mentor Market project here. The goal here is to create a marketplace on Nostr that encourages people to sell classes for things they know.

Why? Well, there are already marketplace solutions for Nostr as well as eCommerce tooling for bitcoin and lightning. While these tools works well, it's sometimes a little daunting for people are have not come far on their entrepreneurial journey. For example, creating a store implies that I need physical products to sell.

However, everyone knows something. If you know something, then there are probably others who want to know what you know.

Mentor Market encourages people to sell classes for things they know how to do, advertise these over Nostr, and sell their time for bitcoin. The goal is to create a frictionless Value For Value experience where the seller doesn't even need any physical products to get started; just offer up what they know!

For our MVP, we are starting with basic functionality of posting a lesson (and edit/delete), request lesson from buyer side, confirm lesson from seller side, and pay the seller over lightning.