Lightsats Pitch

Intro

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🪶 Features

• Complete tipping flow (funding, expiry, reclaiming) including the ability to follow your recipient’s journey

• Nocoiner-friendly onboarding with simple and rewarding steps to withdrawing their tip into their own custody

• Guide of services, tools and places to help the newly-onboarded user become part of the Bitcoin ecosystem (“What can I do with my Bitcoin?”)

• Reminders for recipients that haven’t withdrawn their sats yet

• Scoreboard that makes tipping fun and competitive

🛣️ Roadmap

We’re a 100% open source. See our complete roadmap on Github.

💰 Monetization options

• Fees (currently we charge 1% to cover outbound rounding fees)

• New user acquisition for companies and services via our guides (affiliate)

• API for 3rd parties to integrate our tipping/on-boarding solution

• Sponsored leaderboards for bitcoin events or companies

• Featured services & apps on the guide

• Sponsored service when a user completes their withdrawal “Brought to you by ”

• Advertising in transactional emails or email series (”21 days of Bitcoin”)

💪 Achievements

• sms4sats
  Did you know there is KYC for sending SMS with companies like twilio? sms4sats developed an API for us to programmatically send SMS and pay in sats. Bitcoin circular econonomy is happening!

• Bitcoin community

  • Video reviews (English / Spanish)

  • Giveaway

  • Stacker news live

  • Meetup

  • Twitter (more than 500 followers and lot’s of interactions with bitcoiners from all over the world)

• Community-contributed translations

  • Brazilian Portuguese

🧑‍💻 Tech stack

• NextJS Application (React frontend + serverless API)

• Voltage Node (+ LNBits for accounting)

• Lightning

  • LNURL-auth for anonymous and passwordless tipper login

  • LNURL-withdraw for seamless withdrawals

  • Full WebLN integration for funding & withdrawals

Our project's code is available on GitHub.

📊 Stats (23.11.2022)

Some notable numbers about the first 8 weeks of building out the product:

• 1.3M sats sent in 607 tips

• 565 users in total (including tippers)

• 170 users completed their onboarding journey

🌐 Team

• Juan (Project idea, Marketing, Content, Community management)

• René (Lightning operations, Frontend)

• Roland (Backend, Frontend, DevOps)

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