Milestone .02 🗿 #BuildInPublic
Since our first #buildinpublic post a few weeks ago, we've been busy continuing our improvements and implementations of new features into BOLT🔩FUN's maker platform. This story outlines the most recent key developments and releases from our product team, as we continue being completely transparent with our product design, development, and management processes.
Milestone .02 🗿
Recently we have been splitting our focus between continuing the improvement of BOLT🔩FUN’s Stories feature and other platform upgrades. We are doing this to cater for our upcoming Tournaments feature. This feature included its own design sprint, which we’ve outlined below.
Stories improvements ✍️
Within our GH milestone, labelled Seamless Story Creation & Engagement Pt. 2, we continued to improve our new Stories feature so that makers can share their #buildinpublic journeys as they continue to develop and launch new products. This included:
As you can see, there are still quite a few open issues within this Milestone. This is intentional, as we have shifted focus towards other bugs and improvements, to prepare for our upcoming Tournament at the end of the year.
Tournaments Design Sprint ⚔️
3 weeks ago we began a Peak Shift design sprint for a brand new feature for our maker platform - Tournaments!
Tournaments are an online global competition for makers to learn, connect, collaborate, and experiment with building innovative applications and tools with bitcoin and lightning. Resembling a 1-2 month accelerator program, makers can form teams, and show off their progress updates as they compete for a grand prize.
If you’d like to check out the full design sprint, you can review our Figma file here. Over a 4 day period, we went from concept and ideation to mapping and designing a testable prototype. We feel the sprint was a success, and we now have fresh development focus for the coming weeks as we look to launch this feature.
Linked Wallets 🔐
A major improvement to the authentication UX of maker profiles has been the addition of a Linked Wallets component, hidden within a maker's profile settings page. In short, this feature allows makers to link multiple wallets to their BOLT🔩FUN profile, allowing them to authenticate or "Sign In" from multiple lightning wallets. This solves the previously discussed issues of makers being unable to access their profiles if they fail to backup a lightning wallet, lose a device, or forget their Alby passwords. To learn more about this feature, you can read our Introducing Linked Wallets 🔐 story.
Roles & Skills 🎛 🌈
Makers can now add their role(s) and skills to their profiles, showcasing the positions they fill and skillsets they offer to a team. Makers can add and edit this information within their profile settings menu. Are there any additional roles or skills you want to see listed on our platform? If so, you can comment with your idea on this Github discussion.
What’s next?
Looking towards the future, we have quite a few features and improvements to make before beginning our body of work for our new Tournaments feature. This includes giving makers the ability to add their own projects to BOLT🔩FUN, tag them in stories, upload image files, plus much more. We’re on a tight deadline to launch Tournaments before October - so stay tuned as we continue to develop and launch new features over the coming month!
Get involved
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