What you share is valuable & belongs to you. Let's keep it that way.
Counsel is where you share knowledge & experience in a way that respects your time, your value & your data. Get real life insights & professional expertise. Share your wisdom. Get tipped for good advice.
Built on Nostr, which means you control your account. Use Counsel for giving and receiving advice within the app (encrypted) or across the entire Nostr network; the choice is yours. Counsel is a personal knowledge base with categories built to expand your knowledge and help you inform others. No algorithms built to keep you distracted; control and manage your feeds how you want them.
Counsel is currently in beta. To join the beta test click below.
Ask Mode
Post questions to get advice
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How Counsel is Different
Built for people who want useful information, not endless distraction
Two Modes
Ask mode for posting questions, finding mentors & keeping rich searchable data on the advice you receive. Answer mode for building your reputation & mentoring others with your experience & insights.
Everything Searchable
Your public questions & answers are stored reliably so you can search & reference them anytime. Filter by category, mentor, or topic. Build your personal knowledge base of wisdom received.
Get tips in Bitcoin
Share good advice publicly & people will tip you with zaps. Build your reputation & people can DM you for personal guidance. Not into Bitcoin? No problem, you can use Counsel without it.
Private When You Need It
Direct messages with mentors are end-to-end encrypted—only you and your mentor can read them. Public Q&A helps others learn from your questions & builds mentor reputations.
No Algorithmic Manipulation
You come here to ask or answer specific questions, not to scroll through an infinite feed designed to keep you hooked & show you ads. When you're done, you leave.
You Own Your Identity
Sign up with Google or email—we create your Nostr keys securely. Want full control? Export your keys anytime and use them across the Nostr ecosystem. Your identity, your choice.
How Counsel Works
Ask & Answer
Post questions in topics that matter to you. Browse categories where you have experience. Help people who need what you know—no engagement algorithms deciding what's worth seeing.
Searchable & Discoverable
Public Q&A lives on the Counsel server—fast, searchable, and easy to discover. Your questions get answers because they're visible to people who can help, not buried by algorithms.
Earn for Helping
Good advice gets tipped with Bitcoin over Lightning—instant, global, no middleman. Build a reputation and people will seek you out for private guidance where tips are the norm.
Your Keys, Your Identity
Sign in with Nostr keys you control—no email, no password reset owned by a company. Your identity is portable across the Nostr ecosystem. Private DMs are end-to-end encrypted.
Why Not AI or Reddit?
4 good reasons:
Your data will never be sold or used in any way except by you
AI & Reddit can lock you out of your account
Reddit moderators can ban you for opinions they disagree with
AI is trained to give safe, mainstream answers from data that already exists. At Counsel you get live, authentic answers based on lived experiences
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