The Nostr recommendation generator helps you draft thoughtful, signal-rich endorsements for the people, clients, relays, and long-form notes that shape the Nostr network. Recommendations on Nostr are not polite filler: they are how trust travels across a keypair-based social graph that has no algorithmic feed ordering, no verified checkmarks, and no centralized directory. A good npub shoutout, a sharp client review, or a well-reasoned relay endorsement is often the single thing that moves a reader to follow a new pubkey, switch clients, or route their notes through a different relay. This tool turns that work into a repeatable writing process, so you can publish recommendations that feel specific, honest, and worth zapping.
Whether you are a creator trying to amplify other plebs, a builder looking to highlight the open source tools you rely on, or a relay operator who wants community allies to vouch for your uptime, the Nostr recommendation generator gives you a starting draft in seconds. You feed it the context it needs, pick a recommendation type, and get a kind:1 note, a NIP-23 long-form article, or a short zap-recipient intro you can post across your favorite client. Every draft is tuned for Nostr norms: no begging for follows, no empty hype, and no corporate-sounding fluff that gets ignored on a protocol built for signal.
Nostr recommendation types you can generate
Nostr is a protocol, not a single app, so “recommendation” looks different depending on where it lands. The generator covers the five formats that do the most work in the ecosystem today, and you can mix and match them across a single campaign or a single note.
Npub shoutout
An npub shoutout is the classic short-form recommendation: a kind:1 note that points your followers to another pubkey and explains why they should follow. The generator pulls in the person’s handle, their focus area, and one or two concrete things they have shipped or posted recently, then writes a note that reads like something a human who actually follows them would write. You get a hook, a reason to follow, and a clean npub reference that most clients will render as a clickable profile card.
Client recommendation
Client recommendations help readers choose between Damus, Amethyst, Primal, Snort, Coracle, nos2x, and the dozens of other Nostr apps in the wild. Because every client has different NIP support, different zap UX, and different moderation tools, a useful recommendation has to be specific. The generator compares the client you are endorsing against one or two alternatives on the axes that matter to your audience, such as lightning integration, relay management, media handling, or performance on low-end phones.
Relay endorsement
Relay endorsements are one of the highest-leverage recommendations you can write, because a reader who adopts a new relay improves their entire feed. The generator drafts endorsements that cover the things relay operators actually care about, including uptime, paid versus free access, NIP support, moderation philosophy, geographic location, and whether the relay serves as a read relay, write relay, or both. You get a recommendation that helps builders and power users decide where to route their notes.
NIP-23 long-form recommendation
Some recommendations deserve more than a short note. NIP-23 long-form articles are the right format for in-depth reviews of clients, wallets, or tools, for curated lists of pubkeys worth following in a niche, or for narrative endorsements that tell the story of how a project earned your trust. The generator produces a structured long-form draft with an intro, clear sections, and a closing call to action, all formatted so it renders cleanly in Habla, Yakihonne, and other NIP-23 readers.
Zap recipient intro
Zap recipient intros are short paragraphs you attach to a zap, a donation post, or a “who to support this month” thread. They are harder to write than they look: you need to make the recipient feel like a real person with a real mission in two or three sentences. The generator focuses on the recipient’s work, the concrete impact of supporting them, and a lightning address or npub the reader can act on immediately.
Best practices for Nostr recommendations that earn zaps
Nostr readers are sensitive to anything that smells like marketing. The recommendations that travel furthest across the network all share a handful of traits, and the generator is tuned to produce drafts that hit them by default.
- Be specific. Name the post, the NIP, the feature, or the moment that made you want to recommend. Vague praise reads like bot output and gets scrolled past.
- Be concrete. Swap adjectives for nouns and verbs. Instead of “great relay,” say “runs a paid relay with 99.9% uptime and strict NIP-42 auth.”
- Signal real value. Explain what the reader gains by following, switching, or zapping. A recommendation that only helps the recommender rarely gets boosted.
- Disclose relationships. If the person is a friend, a client, or someone who zapped you first, say so. Trust on Nostr compounds through transparency.
- Respect format norms. Keep kind:1 notes under a screen, use NIP-23 for anything longer, and avoid link-dumping into clients that render previews poorly.
- Include an action. End with a clear next step: follow this npub, add this relay, try this client, zap this address.
Use cases across the Nostr ecosystem
The Nostr recommendation generator is built for three overlapping groups of users, and each one gets a slightly different flavor of draft based on the context it supplies.
Creators and plebs
Creators use the generator to run weekly follow Friday threads, to write npub shoutouts when they discover a new pubkey worth boosting, and to produce zap-recipient intros for monthly support posts. Because Nostr rewards consistency, creators who recommend often build a reputation as a trusted curator, which in turn grows their own follower graph and their incoming zaps.
Builders and open source maintainers
Builders use the generator to endorse the clients, libraries, and relays they depend on. A well-written recommendation from a respected builder can move significant share of voice on Nostr, which is why maintainers who publicly vouch for the tools in their stack tend to attract contributors and users to their own projects in return.
Relay operators and service providers
Relay operators use the generator to draft endorsements for allied relays, to write long-form articles about the design choices behind their own relay, and to produce the cross-promotion content that keeps the relay layer of Nostr healthy and diverse. Service providers such as lightning wallet teams, identity providers, and Nostr-based marketplaces use it the same way.
Frequently asked questions
Does the tool post directly to Nostr?
No. The Nostr recommendation generator produces the text of your recommendation. You copy it into Damus, Amethyst, Primal, Habla, or whichever client you use, sign with your own key, and broadcast to your relays. You stay in control of signing and publishing at all times.
Can I generate recommendations in languages other than English?
Yes. You can specify the language you want the recommendation written in, and the generator will match tone, idioms, and common Nostr vocabulary for that language community.
Does it write kind:1 notes or NIP-23 long-form?
Both. Pick the format when you start the draft. Short-form outputs are sized for kind:1 clients, and long-form outputs follow NIP-23 conventions with clean headings, paragraphs, and links.
How do I keep my recommendations from sounding generic?
Feed the generator specifics. The more concrete detail you provide, including real post examples, relay URLs, NIP numbers, and personal anecdotes, the more distinctive the output will be. Generic inputs produce generic outputs on any AI tool.
Is it safe to use with my pubkey?
The tool never asks for your nsec or private key. It only uses public information you paste in, such as npubs, post content, or relay URLs, to draft the recommendation text.
Schedule and repurpose your Nostr recommendations with Postiz
Once you have a draft you like, the next challenge is getting it in front of the right audience at the right time, and turning one recommendation into content that also lives on X, LinkedIn, Bluesky, Threads, Mastodon, and your newsletter. Postiz is the open source social media scheduling and AI content platform that handles that part of the workflow for you. You can plan your Nostr shoutouts alongside the rest of your content calendar, collaborate with a team on drafts, and repurpose a single recommendation into a multi-network campaign without copying and pasting across tabs.
Teams building in public use Postiz to keep their recommendation cadence consistent, track which endorsements drive the most follows and zaps, and run approval workflows when recommendations involve partners or clients. Because Postiz is open source, you can self-host it next to your relay, integrate it with your existing Nostr tooling, and keep full control of your content pipeline. Pair the Nostr recommendation generator with Postiz, and your recommendations move from a good idea on Friday night to a scheduled, measured, cross-network publishing habit.
