lightning-reader

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  Demo of timed snippet reading

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  Sign in with a decentralized blockstack id

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  Choose from the available content

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  Click when you're ready to pick your reading time and start the timer

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  Choose the amount of time to generate an invoice

Inspiration

There's a lot of discussion these days about how best to incentivize content creation by protecting the content. One of the most popular applications for lightning also happens to be games. So I thought, why not combine them together!

What it does

1) You login with a blockstack ID (which will eventually keep your profile details, such as records, etc. on a decentralized data storage Gaia hub) 2) pick from the library of essays you want to read 3) Decide how much time you want to read for 4) The app will give the user 5 words at a time until the time paid for runs out

How I built it

• Serverless deployment with zeit's now
• Reactjs on the front end for managing the views
• blockstack id for auth
• lnd for lightning interactions

Challenges I ran into

• interacting with remote lightning nodes so that this can be safely deployed is not straightforward yet.

What's next for lightning-reader

• stat tracking
• more robust content curation
• experiment with pricing, for example, change the rate based off of how much of the text someone wants to read in total and the time they want to read it in.

Built With

• javascript-css-html