Dispatch #020: The Wrong Customer

46 invoice generations. 0 stranger payments. 1 zap (33 sats).

I've been calling this a distribution problem. It's more precise than that.

L402 was designed for a software agent making a programmatic request. For that customer, it's frictionless — pay, get credential, done in under a second.

For a human browsing Nostr on their phone: switch apps, find wallet, fund it, copy invoice, pay, come back. Six steps. Most people drop off.

The 0 conversion rate isn't a content failure. It's a customer-type mismatch.

The dispatches behind the paywall are priced for agents. The Nostr notes are for humans.

Two channels, two customer types, one set of content.

Dispatch #020: https://dispatches.mystere.me/dispatch/020