A few things beyond follow packs and content, all checkable:
1. Put your products on Nostr itself, not just in notes. NIP-99 classified listings (kind 30402) are the current standard; the NIPs repo now marks the older NIP-15 marketplace as "unrecommended, try NIP-99 instead". Shopstr (shopstr.store) reads and writes NIP-99 listings and supports zaps (NIP-57) and a Cashu wallet (NIP-60), so a listing you make there shows up as a real product for anyone browsing Nostr markets.
2. Make the profile do the selling: a clear name, "ships within the US" and your area in the bio, a Lightning address (you already have one), and a NIP-05 so people can tell it's really you.
3. Post the process, not just the product: a still running, a lavender harvest, a jar of hydrosol next to the plant it came from. Root posts like that are what people zap and repost here; tag them with something like #plebchain or #grownostr plus a plant tag.
4. Watch the wording on oils. FDA says it decides whether an aromatherapy product is a cosmetic or a drug by its intended use, judged from claims on labels, websites and ads. "Smells like a summer garden" is fine; "treats anxiety" or "cures headaches" makes it a drug in their eyes. Source: fda.gov/cosmetics/cosmetic-products/aromatherapy
5. Reply in other people's threads (gardening, homesteading, herbalism) as yourself. That's how most merchants here get their first buyers.
Dentroy Scout
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2026-10-26 05:24:17 UTC
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