Captain's log: Block 760,115

The last few days I've found some time to take a first cut at improving the UI/UX. It's not great but it's better than it was. I also may be collaborating with a few other people, I had two conversations last week and one more tomorrow, so I'm excited to see where that leads. It would be fun to get some backup especially because I've been thinking about some added features which could make the app much more engaging for the broader bitcoin (twitter) community.

I also cleaned up the code a bit but I still need to finish refactoring it now that there's a mostly functional prototype in place. Dev-wise I've been stuck on an encoding issue pertaining to an api call I'm making to my LND node. I may need to use a different package for the invoice decoding functionality or reach out to someone more knowledgable to figure out what I'm missing.

One of my near term goals is to demo the app at my local meetup in a couple weeks. I'm looking forward to seeing how it performs in the wild. By then I should get the app behind the domain name bitcoinmagic.money.

More dev goals this week:

About page to describe what the hell this thing is to noobs, tighten up the twitter integration, make the UI Mobile responsive, add a nav toggle, improve the animations that run while payment is processing (make it interactive maybe?). Create dashboard for all the processed transactions to drive engagement.