Jude Nelson conducted a workshop, spoke at the Open Source Expo Sat. morning and had a table at Stanford University’s TreeHacks hackathon, 1254 students took part in the hackathon. Check out the 1st place Blockstack winner, and runner up.
Last week updates:
App Mining
PAID OUT: app mining for February! There were 54 apps in the running. Snippet of the top 13 can be found here.
56 Apps fully registered for March
Onboard more investors on the voting platform
Synced with Democracy Earth on UX
Met potential review partners
Developer Platform
Browser, iOS and Android PR reviews
Built a real-time streaming system into the Radiks framework
Increased automatic end to end testing of the browser and blockstack.js authentication flow. These are now integrated with Github PRs, and should improve the quality control of our releases substantially. Building out our E2E test suite, tests for auth-browser have been merged and integrated with GitHub PRs.
Awareness
Continued outreach to events and hackathons regarding JS developers and Indie Hackers.
TreeHacks hackathon (see updates in in Wins of the week)
Improve consumer UX
Reviewed all the Lisk research and wrote out some suggested next steps
Opened discussions on forum re browser passwords and profile metadata collections
Reviewed improvements to apps listed on Browser homepage
Reviewed Lisk user testing results with Jeff for consideration of seed-based authentication flows
Implemented feedback changes to the browser homepage to display up-to-date apps from app.co api
Open-source engagement
Continued works on Gaia docs: procedure testing, Gaia admin documentation, sample app development, entering review comments
Provided developer materials to Ethereum Blockstack meetup
