You're already multiple people.
Your software should know.
You're a different person at work than you are with friends. A different person on a dating app than you are on LinkedIn. A different person when you're being playful, professional, political, or private.
The internet pretends otherwise. One Google account. One Twitter handle. One email that's tied to your tax returns and your meme account. When something goes wrong — a leak, a ban, a context collapse — every part of your life is exposed at once.
The password manager moment
Before 1Password, most people reused the same password everywhere. They knew it was bad. They did it anyway, because managing dozens of unique passwords was impossible by hand.
Then a tool made it easy. Now nobody thinks twice about having a hundred unique passwords. The behaviour shifted because the friction disappeared.
Uno is that for identity. One master key. Many derived selves. Switching between them is one swipe, not a logout flow.
What "identity" actually means here
Nostr is a cryptographic protocol. An identity is a key pair you control. That sounds technical, but the practical effect is simple:
- Nobody can take your account away from you.
- Your followers, your posts, your reputation live with your key — not on a server.
- You can use the same identity across every Nostr app that exists.
- You can have different identities for different parts of your life, and no app can tell they're the same person.
The mental model: one seed, many lives
When you create your first identity in Uno, we silently generate a twelve-word seed phrase and derive a key from it. No ceremony. No "write this down or you'll lose everything." Just a working identity in under a minute.
Later — when you decide you want a separate work persona, or an anonymous outlet, or a shared identity for a side project — Uno derives another key from the same seed. One backup phrase still covers everything.
Already on Nostr? Import your existing nsec as a first-class
identity. Your followers, your reputation, all preserved. Add new
derived identities alongside it.
Signing without the browser extension
Today, using Nostr on the web means installing a browser extension that
holds your keys, or pasting an nsec into a website and praying.
Both options are terrible.
Uno is a NIP-46 remote signer. Your phone holds the keys. When a website wants to act as you, it shows up in Uno as a pending request: "X wants to post as your Work identity. Approve?" You tap yes. The website never touches your key.
This is what cryptographic identity is supposed to feel like.
Where this goes
We're building the on-ramp for everyone Nostr lost in the first ten minutes. The teenager who wants a private account away from family. The professional who needs a clean separation between work and weekend. The activist whose anonymous identity actually has to be anonymous.
Multi-identity isn't a feature. It's a way of being on the internet that finally matches how you already live.