Knowzy - The Beginning
Seven years ago, I designed a polling platform where respondents own their data and earn sats for their answers. Life intervened, but with nostr and Lightning, the concept is viable again.
Knowzy flips traditional surveys: you build a dimensional profile through your answers, question askers target specific audiences transparently, and payment flows to those who respond. Consistency tracking over time creates a marketplace for coherent perspectives. Your profile is portable, your reputation is earned, your data is yours.
The architecture is sound - flexible dimensional modeling, Lightning payments, nostr identity. The database schema is complete. What's missing is implementation: the frontend, the Lightning integration, the seed questions that bootstrap new users.
I'm sharing this knowing I probably won't finish it. But incomplete work has value if it's documented. The repo is public at https://github.com/rjcraddock/knowzy The data model is there. The vision is clear.
For whoever comes next: he who controls the indexes controls the future. This is an attempt to build an index users actually control. Build it better than I could have.
