Q3-2025 Damus Opensats Report

• Dates: June-02 to Aug-05

This period was heavily focused on preparation of our Damus Android launch at an upcoming event!

How I spent my time

Damus Android

$ git author-stats --after=2025-06-02 --no-merges 
name                                                  added   removed  commits
William Casarin <jb55@jb55.com>                       +10748  -7073    181
kernelkind <kernelkind@gmail.com>                     +6094   -3394    110
Fernando López Guevara <fernando.lguevara@gmail.com>  +3594   -1659    40
Terry Yiu <git@tyiu.xyz>                              +8497   -1102    16
Jakub Gladysz <jakub.gladysz@protonmail.com>          +27     -22      2
alltheseas                                            +8      -1       2
valkuros@gmail.com <valkuros@gmail.com>               +1      -1       1

Full Log

We released versions v0.5.1 to v0.6.0 to a group of internal testers, features include:

v0.6.0

• New notifications indiciator dot on toolbar
• Fixed mentions/tagging
• Gave dave a new swarm-of-cubes look
• Persist some more settings
• Allow sorting thread replies newest first in options
• Show full created date format on selected notes
• Show client name on selected notes
• Higher quality media
• Increase media viewer transition animation
• Fix some ui glitches when replying
• Fix gpu crash on adrendo devices (some samsung galaxy tablets)
• Swipe nav on full screen media
• Made action buttons bigger
• Fix zap button not appearing
• Allow removal of Damoose account
• Profile is now clickable from side bar
• Back swipe nav on all views

v0.5.9

• Persist settings to storage
• New fullscreen media viewer with panning and zoom
• Changed note rendering to use the full screen width
• Fixed more wrapping issues
• Fixed crash on large images
• Fix nwc copy/paste
• Portugese translations
• Show locale language names instead of identifier
• Back swipe nav on all views

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v0.5.7

• Swipe nav on full screen media

• Made action buttons bigger

• Fix zap button not appearing

• Allow removal of Damoose account

• Profile is now clickable from side bar

• New settings view:

  • Resize zoom level
  • Clear cache
  • Change locale

• Localization support

  • German
  • Spanish
  • French
  • Chinese
  • Thai

v0.5.1 to v0.5.7

• Fixed remaining keyboard issues
• Added support android clipboard
• Added android toolbar

Notebook

I created a new notedeck app called notebook, which is an obsidian clone on nostr. This was a way to demo notedeck's multi-app functionality and this cool use-case of other stuff.

• Demo

Notepack

I created a new compact binary note format for nostr called notepack:

• https://github.com/jb55/notepack

lnsocket-rs

I created a new rust library for communicating with lightning nodes, which we will be using for damus' lnurl server as well as a way for lmzap to fetch invoices.

• https://github.com/jb55/lnsocket-rs

lnurl-commando-rs

I created a new rust library that uses lnsocket-rs for created a commando-based lnurl server.

• https://github.com/jb55/lnurl-commando-rs

What do you plan to work on next quarter?

The plan for post-android-launch is to handle any post-launch issues, but otherwise our plans are:

• High quality web-of-trust ratings in nostrdb for ios/android/notedeck
• Realtime search columns
• Relay timelines
• Profile search
• Store decks on nostr
• nostr visualization android/notedeck app
• Onboarding tutorial

and more!

How did you make use of the money?*

• Paying servers
• Living expenses