About This Guide
A free, open-source guide to Nostr, written for people who have never heard of it.
Why this exists
Nostrich.love was made to put the Nostr protocol within reach of people who are not developers. Decentralized social media should not ask for a technical background at the door.
Nostr stands for Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays. It is a small, open protocol for social media that no company owns and that is hard to censor. Instead of an account on somebody's server, you have a pair of cryptographic keys, and those keys are what put you in control of your identity and your data.
The guide itself is free, open source, and maintained by the community. No ads, no tracking, no gatekeeping.
Our Principles
Open Source
All the code sits in public on GitHub. Read it, fork it, or send a fix.
Privacy First
No tracking, no cookies, no data collection. The analytics we do run are the privacy-friendly kind.
Accessible
Written for people who are not developers. Where a term is unavoidable, we explain it before we use it.
Community Driven
Built from inside the Nostr community. Corrections and additions are welcome.
Built With
The site runs on open-source pieces:
- Astro builds the static pages
- React handles the interactive parts
- Tailwind CSS does the styling
- TypeScript everywhere, so mistakes surface early
- shadcn/ui for the interface components
Who Builds This
Nostrich.love is built and maintained by Piotr Czarnoleski (ptrio42), a developer who has been building on nostr since 2023. He runs relays written in Go, built swarmstr.com (a Q&A client for the protocol), and contributes to nostr open source such as the khatru relay framework.
This site exists because onboarding is the step he kept watching newcomers fail at, especially outside English. Every guide, tool and translation here is open source, and corrections are welcome from anyone.
- Nostr:
_@nostrich.love(NIP-05) - Email: hello@nostrich.love
- Source code: GitHub (MIT licensed)
- Support: value for value, via zaps, Lightning or on-chain
Join the Community
Help make Nostr easier to walk into. Fixes, bug reports and suggestions all go through GitHub.