Building a Decentralized App Store and Web of Trust with Franzap

I’ve been sitting on this for a month, but the conversation is more relevant now than ever! As vibe coding enables the creation of orders of magnitude more apps and media, the question becomes: how do I sort through this embarrassment of riches to find what I actually need? One option is to trust centralized entities like companies or governments. Franzap, however, has another idea. Using Nostr’s global identity, data commons, and micropayments, he’s designing a new kind of app store powered by a decentralized web of trust. I hope you enjoy! Here are a few topics we discuss:

* Fran’s vision for an open, permissionless alternative to Apple and Android app stores

* How Zapstore could help fund open source development

* Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) have limited path to adoption

* Is it time to build an App Store for AI agents to use?! An open MCP registry could be a good starting point

* IA (Intelligence Amplification) vs. AI (Artificial Intelligence)

* The future of AI and app development

* Why a decentralized Web of Trust matters in sorting information, apps, accounts and anything else

* How to build and use a decentralized Web of Trust

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