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From: Local Dev <dev@localhost>
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2026 02:53:20 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] prometheus.x: sharpen category copy, add publishers'
 walkthrough
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The eight category cards now say why that shelf is different on
Prometheus than on a store, instead of just naming things that go in
it. The lede loses the "Google Play or an App Store" rhetorical setup
for a shorter claim about where the curation actually lives.

content/publish.html is new — a full step-by-step for a publisher:
what you need before you start, the walkthrough from name to listing
to update to withdrawal, a note on endorsements, and what each piece
costs. The front page's Publishing section gets a "Full walkthrough →"
link into it. README spells out that content/ is the source of truth
and that a new file still needs a wp-admin page to render.

site/prometheus/index.html (the ICANN mirror teaser) gets the same
category copy so the two surfaces do not disagree.
---
 prometheus/index.html | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/prometheus/index.html b/prometheus/index.html
index f6b247c..66c9dfc 100644
--- a/prometheus/index.html
+++ b/prometheus/index.html
@@ -69,49 +69,58 @@
 <!-- ============ CATEGORIES ============ -->
 <section class="plain">
   <h2>Browse by category</h2>
-  <p class="lede">Where a Google Play or an App Store has one company deciding what fits
-    which shelf, Prometheus has the publisher's own label and your own trust list.
-    Categories below are the initial shape; anyone can propose more.</p>
+  <p class="lede">On a conventional store, one company decides which shelf an app belongs
+    on. Here the publisher labels their own listing, and your trust list decides whether
+    to show it. The categories below are the initial shape; a new one gets proposed by
+    publishing a listing against it.</p>
 
   <div class="categories">
     <a class="cat empty" href="#soon"><div class="ico">💬</div>
       <h3>Communication</h3>
-      <p>Messengers, voice, group chats, boards.</p>
+      <p>Messengers, voice, boards, group chats. Clients that route through peers rather
+         than someone else's server.</p>
       <span class="count">0 listings</span>
     </a>
     <a class="cat empty" href="#soon"><div class="ico">🛡️</div>
       <h3>Privacy &amp; security</h3>
-      <p>Tor tooling, mix networks, key managers, disk crypto.</p>
+      <p>Tor and mix-net tooling, key and vault managers, disk crypto. The things a
+         conventional store delists first when a government writes.</p>
       <span class="count">0 listings</span>
     </a>
     <a class="cat empty" href="#soon"><div class="ico">💸</div>
       <h3>Wallets &amp; payments</h3>
-      <p>BCH wallets, cross-chain bridges, payment terminals.</p>
+      <p>BCH wallets, cross-chain bridges, point-of-sale terminals. The chain publishes
+         the listing and the chain settles the payment.</p>
       <span class="count">0 listings</span>
     </a>
     <a class="cat empty" href="#soon"><div class="ico">🎮</div>
       <h3>Games</h3>
-      <p>Standalone titles, on-chain leaderboards, in-app purchases without a store cut.</p>
+      <p>Standalone titles, on-chain leaderboards, in-app purchases that reach the
+         publisher instead of a 30% toll.</p>
       <span class="count">0 listings</span>
     </a>
     <a class="cat empty" href="#soon"><div class="ico">🧰</div>
       <h3>Developer tools</h3>
-      <p>SDKs, libraries, indexers, testnet faucets, protocol utilities.</p>
+      <p>SDKs, libraries, indexers, faucets, protocol utilities. The pieces other apps
+         on this list are built out of.</p>
       <span class="count">0 listings</span>
     </a>
     <a class="cat empty" href="#soon"><div class="ico">🎧</div>
       <h3>Media &amp; publishing</h3>
-      <p>Readers, players, one-file blogs, podcast hosts.</p>
+      <p>Readers, players, one-file blogs, podcast hosts. Clients that find their
+         audience without going through an aggregator.</p>
       <span class="count">0 listings</span>
     </a>
     <a class="cat empty" href="#soon"><div class="ico">⚙️</div>
       <h3>Utilities</h3>
-      <p>File tools, sync, format converters, calculators.</p>
+      <p>File tools, format converters, backup, calculators. The small sharp things that
+         solve one problem and do not ask for an account first.</p>
       <span class="count">0 listings</span>
     </a>
     <a class="cat empty" href="#soon"><div class="ico">✨</div>
       <h3>Everything else</h3>
-      <p>Anything that doesn't fit above. Propose a new category via a listing.</p>
+      <p>Anything that does not fit above. New categories are proposed in-band — any
+         listing can declare one and clients will offer to add it.</p>
       <span class="count">0 listings</span>
     </a>
   </div>