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Plans 📆
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Building and styling a brand-new homepage
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Allowing tipper to use their reclaimed sats as funds to create new ones
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Polishing our UX/UI for both a tipper and a tippee
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Continue building our user guides adding more products/services and expanding categories
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Start implementing multi-language support
These tasks carried over from Week 3
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Integrate an SMS provider for 2FA
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Build user personas for a tipper and a tippee.
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Work on branding - logo, brand image, branding colors, and public landing page.
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Ability to retrieve a tip by ID and see the invoice statuses (both funding invoice and withdrawal invoice)
Progress âś…
- We added a new confirmation page for a Tipper once the tips/gifts they have sent out have been withdrawn with an encouraging message plus a call to action with their ranking on the scoreboard and a link to visit it.
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In celebration of the Bitcoin White Paper day on October 31st, we added the PDF to our website https://lightsats.com/bitcoin.pdf as well in our learning guide section https://lightsats.com/guide/learn
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Admin Dashboard:
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- total number of tips (+ number in each status)
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- total number of sats sent, the total number of sats outstanding
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Additional Metrics:
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- 120 tips created
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- 75 completed tips (61 withdrawn, 14 refunded)
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- 53 withdrawals (43 tippee, 10 tipper)
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- 240 sats outbound routing fees
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- 2365 sats unspent routing fees (profit)
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- 129 users (53 email, 76 lnurl-auth)
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- Average withdrawn tip size: 3352 sats
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- Average withdrawn tip expiration duration: 207 hours
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- Average time to withdraw: 15 hours
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Migration of email service provider over to SendGrid
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Translation to Thai so Roland can tip people in his area, next will be Spanish & German (Our official Lightsats team member's languages)
- We have now started to add listings to our bitcoin experiences our nocoiner users can start exploring: https://lightsats.com/guide
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We introduced docker to our project and added mailhog (a catchall SMTP server for local testing)
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- Added svg logo
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- improvements for navigation
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- start page (landing page for new users)
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- features (a page to list some features for new users)
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- sign up (a page where new users should go to)
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- login (a page for existing users)
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- testing out some new ideas for the scoreboard
- User research via Twitter, searched for keywords on Twitter search for actions our target users would do, and started interacting with some accounts to show them our product and get user feedback. https://twitter.com/search?q=tipping bitcoin
- Went to do user research to Taquiza in South Beach, to see if a random person would accept bitcoin as a gift via Lightsats so they could pay for their dinner or drinks, I did not have much success. As soon as I mentioned the word “Bitcoin” everyone got so hesitant. https://twitter.com/Lightsats21/status/1587977411433533441
- Tried a second time with a nocoiner friend to test sending her bitcoin via Lightsats so she could pay for her food and drinks, this time I selected a different location called Hometown Barbecue which was listed both on btcmap.org & ibexpay.io but the staff said they did not accept bitcoin payments. The problem I usually see is that when venues start accepting bitcoin they don’t train their staff and don’t know how to https://twitter.com/juansebastiangb/status/1589421062416367618
- I was able to tip my hairdresser using Lightsats, I asked if she’d like to try it out to receive her tip and was excited to test it out. She has had exposure already via Coinbase but hasn’t done much research and had never experienced using the Lightning Network. I sent her $15 and as soon as she got it she wanted to send $5 to her brother via Lightsats as well.
Problems âś‹
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Email authentication links expire too quickly and when new users are getting onboarded and they download a wallet but the window open they had for Lightsats gets lost and they try to login again the link doesn’t authenticate them again. We’re adding a longer expiration duration for that link authentication.
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Users opening our website within an email app web browser, I experienced this when I tipped my hairdresser when she opened up the link in her Outlook email app and it opened up a browser within the email app when trying to withdraw her funds via LNURL-w the page would break.
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Doing real-life user testing got turned out the first time in Taquiza and when we tested at Hometown Barbecue which was labeled that they accepted bitcoin on two maps, they said they did not, unfortunately.
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Authentication emails for outlook get filtered in the spam folder, need to work on this so users don’t have to look around for their email login.
Links đź”—
Website - https://lightsats.com
Scoreboard - https://lightsats.com/scoreboard
Guide - https://lightsats.com/guide
Git Hub - https://github.com/lightsats
Twitter - https://twitter.com/lightsats21
Lightning on Web Series:
Team members [René]9https://makers.bolt.fun/profile/81/ren-aaron) and Roland did a series last week on Youtube about "Lightning on Web" giving some insight into what technologies we've used to build Lightsats with.
youtu.be/WywXi297ZCQ