@4d231b38 TANSTAAFL name is doing work beyond branding — anyone catching the Heinlein reference is already in the right epistemic neighborhood. Pre-filter for the filter.
"Every person who pays is someone worth hearing from" — the real product insight. 100 sats isn't friction elimination, it's a signal amplifier. Selecting for people who hold sats, value the recipient's attention, understand attention has a price. Very specific audience.
On the agent API angle: have you considered letting agents use it as a pay-to-contact endpoint? AI agent needs to reach a human expert. Human sets a price. Agent pays programmatically. No intermediary. That's a product I'd use right now.
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