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Yeah, I think that's it. I sent in some more to get it above 1000, and was able to send out.
I'd suggest that you make the send button clickable, but then when someone clicks on it, tell them that they need to have more than 1000 sats to send.
Otherwise, it's confusing, you don't know why you can't send.
I do have funds on it, not much, but I should be able to send. And the Send is grayed out. The receive is clickable (that's how I got the funds there).
No, I don't have Bitcoin in the list.
I was just confused that a list like this would contain
Liquid
Testnet
Regtest
It would make more sense to me if it were
Liquid (Mainnet)
Liquid (Testnet)
Liquid (Regtest)
I guess if you know that there's a Liquid version of Mainnet, it makes sense. I didn't know that.
Here's some feedback, just from working with it a bit.
- You go to the main site and click on Open app. That takes you to a website with dev in the name https://helm-wallet.pages.dev/. That makes me think it's just for dev. Maybe have 2 separate links?
- I see that further down in the Try It area, you specify mainnet or testnet. But when you click on those links, it turns out the network settings are identical in the pages that come up.
- I don't understand the listings in the Network section. You have Liquid, Mainnet and Testnet. So when you choose Liquid, you're choosing plain Liquid (does it have a testnet equivalent?). And then the other options are Mainnet and Testnet - so at that point, you're actually using Bitcoin, instead of Liquid?
- When I create a wallet, then tried to restore it, I was very confused. You see, when I first wrote down the seed words, you have them in this order:
1 2
3 4
5 6
7 8
9 10
11 12
I was expecting it to be like this
1 7
2 8
3 9
4 10
5 11
6 12
...And I actually numbered and wrote it down that way. Then when restoring, I saw it was different, and had to fix up my seed word list, because it was in the wrong order. I'm guessing that MOST people would expect it to be the way I thought it would be.
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You may want to be more explicit about the password, in terms of what it actually is. I wasn't sure if it was like a bitcoin passphrase (does Liquid even have that?) or it was just a password for that instance of Helm Wallet. It turns out it's for the later, because you can restore from one browser to another, just with the seed phrase. You may want to have more info on this.
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Why is Send grayed out? Looks like I can receive, but not send?
I like the very straightforward design in general. What are your future plans for it? Is it most similar to Aqua?
Do you have any support or chat (like telegram, discord, simplex?) where people can provide feedback?
It looks promising. I have a couple thoughts on it.
On your website, it says
You can try it (testnet is available)
So, can you use real sats on it, or is just for testnet?
Thank you, I hope it's useful to people. I think self custody is a lot more intimidating to people than old-time bitcoiners realize.
The combo of strange new tech, and the fact that you can lose real money, both combine to ratchet up the apprehension. My goal is to lead newbies step by step through the basics of self custody.
Anyone who's interested in taking a look at it, I'll send you a free copy - just email me at feedback@BitcoinHandsOn.com
Thanks! Not yet, the longer term plan is to write up a website, and then offer it there for sats.
Do you have any other suggestions about selling for sats?
Yeah, I think I might just bite the bullet and try to learn Gimp. It's not that hard, and it is much slower to change.
If you search for instructions on how to do something in Canva, what you'll find is probably outdated. But for Gimp, it'll work.
Regarding the freemium/subscription option, I just had some experience with the graphic design software, Canva (https://www.canva.com/). I was creating the ebook and paperback cover for my new book Bitcoin, Hands-On!.
TL;DR - the freemium/subscription model can be pretty bad.
I tried working with the free version of Canva, but WOW do they make that difficult, there's constant reminders that x/y/z is only available in the paid version. So, I signed up for the paid subscription, on a month-to-month basis.
You'd think the constant, irritating, upsell would stop. But no, it doesn't. It turns out that they sell more than just the paid subscription, they're selling all kinds of extra objects, templates, and packages. It seems like half the screen is taken up with those items.
ALSO - they're always changing the layout and functionality to funnel people to the paid parts of the software. Tutorials and documentation from just a couple months ago are out of date, because the software has changed to feature different packages that they can upsell.
I released my new book on Amazon, the ebook and paperback should be available now. Now comes the harder (to me, anyway) work of figuring out how to let people know about it - marketing and promoting.
Any thoughts on that would be welcome!
I wrote a post with more details here (#944567)
Bitcoin, Hands On! 28 “learn-by-doing” exercises to master the basics of managing your own Bitcoin, including wallets, transactions, and self custody
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F4SZSCH8
I've been struggling with this one. But I think I need to say no, it's not legit.
It kind of turns a lot of things upside down, though, if you delete all IP laws.