PPPS: Week 5 - Lightsats⚡️

Plans 📆

Optimize new user onboarding flow, need to simplify it reducing and optimize for
Work on email templates used for the welcome email, authentication emails and reminder emails
Automated reminders for tippees of expiring funds, need to have a way to remind the user to download a wallet and withdraw their funds

These tasks carried over from Week 4
Start implementing multi-language support
Allowing tipper to use their reclaimed sats as funds to create new ones
Build user personas for a tipper and a tippee.
Work on branding - logo, brand image, branding colors

Progress ✅

Accomplishments:
- Our users have sent out a combined total of 553,523 sats (about 53% of those are mine)
  https://lightsats.com/scoreboard
- 253 tips have been created
- 93 withdrawals to wallets
Admin Dashboard
- Ability to see tips, withdrawals, and users and see each invoice status (both funding invoice and withdrawal invoice)
- User authentication Methods & User type sign-ups as of today November 14th we’ve had:
  - 140 LNURL-Auth sign ups
  - 100 Email sign ups
  - 11 Phone Number sign ups
Building and styling a brand-new homepage still needs more content
Polishing our UX/UI for both a tipper and tippee
- New Tipper Authentication Screens (LN Wallet (default), phone number, email)
- Tipper dashboard -
  - Profile card, share button, quick stats (tips sent, tips received, leaderboard)
  - Reclaimed tips amount and a withdrawal button
  - List of all tips
- Tipper Public Profile with Profile image, Twitter handle, date joined and quick stats, Tips Sent, Tips Received, and spot on the Leaderboard. We also added a call to action button below to recruit new tippers via public profiles. https://lightsats.com/users/cl9q2861o0015grf6z64ls8mj
- Tipper New Tip Creation and update screens - we update the tipper in real-time with the progress of the person receiving their tip, we update from the moment the tip is first seen to when it has been claimed then through each onboarding step we take them until the tip has been withdrawn to an LN Wallet.
- New Tippee Authentication Screens (Phone number, email, LN Wallet)
- New Tippee onboarding flow
Continue building our user guides, and added listings on our Spend, Ear, Buy, Save, Donate, Learn, and Wallets categories.
https://lightsats.com/guide
Integrate an SMS provider for 2FA, we first integrated with Twillio but their KYC process was more rigorous than buying bitcoin on an exchange. So I happened to see a post on SN on what types of projects people could build on Lightning and I asked for a Twillio version with an API to integrate but paying with sats for the SMS and that’s when https://stacker.news/zman from https://sms4sats.com said they’d build it in a few days for us to use!

Gotta love the bitcoin community 🧡

In case you want to check out their API documentation you can go here:
https://docs.sms4sats.com/#create-send-order
Assisted the BitMiami Dev Meetup on Monday, November 7th, had the chance to demo our project to everyone, and got a really good response and feedback. After the meetup, we went to a local bar called The Anderson where I was able to test our app with the bartender. I ordered a drink and asked the bartender if he’d be okay with me tipping him in bitcoin and he agreed. I loaded $10 as a tip set the expiry date to 30 days and he scanned the QR Code and claimed his sats. He is still sitting in the wallet journey and has not proceeded, he still has about 23 days left to withdraw the funds so we are going to try and build reminders so we can get the user to take action. We still need a lot of improvement on the user flow, making it simple for them to follow and understand that we want them to withdraw their sats right away.
On Friday I also had the opportunity of tipping a server after ordering lunch for takeout, I asked her if she’d be okay with me giving her a tip in bitcoin and she was extremely excited about it, I loaded a $10 tip and had her scan the QR Code and redeem the funds. This time I did a bit more of a walk-through myself and we had already integrated SMS for authentication so it was a lot easier to accomplish.
Did a Twitter post announcing our Bitcoin Guide page and tagged some of the companies on the list and got an incredible response and exposure. Was able to get around 100 followers from this single post https://twitter.com/Lightsats21/status/159069549341942989

Problems ✋

No problems for this past week, we just need to optimize a new user onboarding experience to help with downloading a wallet and withdrawing their funds without issues.

Links 🔗

Website - https://lightsats.com
Scoreboard - https://lightsats.com/scoreboard
Guide - https://lightsats.com/guide
User Profile - https://lightsats.com/users/cl9q2861o0015grf6z64ls8mj
Github - https://github.com/lightsats
Twitter - https://twitter.com/lightsats21

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