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30 sats \ 3 replies \ @justin_shocknet 3 Sep \ parent \ on: What creative ideas have you been rambling on? Design
I post sporadically when we push something that curious folks already in the trenches might want to play with and get a temperature check. I've never recruited much to be respectful of peoples time and not burn leads since I usually have a good idea what we want to do next. I lean more Cathedral than Bazaar, time will tell if that was right to do or not.
Latest script hasn't been merged yet, hope to get in the flow again today/tomorrow and merge that. Wallet has a big change in the works too, so I'll only put out materials (video and write-up) once everything feels right end-to-end and I won't feel I'm wasting folks time.
There's a unique challenge with this kind of stack in that once somethings out there it's can ossify quickly in some ways, There's a body trail of good projects that have had development grind to a halt being mired in remedial tech support for a modest base at the expense of potential scale.
Yes, this has been on the agenda forever but I think churn is finally slowing down enough that we're really pushing to get it out the door. There's ancillary services we need to add in to make it supportable and leave a good impression with newcomers, so we haven't wanted to open the flood gates with these just yet.
Everything is public on Github, but https://t.me/ShockBTC and https://x.com/ShockBTC are the closest things to an official channel. Of course any materials will be posted here on SN as well.
I do need help with comms, someone that can pull what's interesting out of my head on a regular basis and put it out there for consumption... it doesn't come naturally to me without prompting and even that yields these wall of text replies as opposed to more consumable updates.
Sound's to me you really have a big great plan and I can understand it could be tricky to plan ahead and deliver, considering all the things that need to be orchestrated.
I mentioned nodes OS because simply they offer an app store, that is a good alternative to the big2 currently dominating the market. For example, Shockwallet could be easily listed in @franzap's zap.store, it will probably reach the audience you aim to help.
Comms are really important because it represents what you want others to know about the project(s). It definitely needs to be plan -strategically. Getting some support will free your mind from something that, as you said, is not in your nature.
Are you using any tool to organize all the projects and all the todos each one need? Sometime even a simple agenda or a whiteboard can help.
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Dunno how I missed this notification...
Yea definitely need help prodding the comms, I thought about making an AI bot that prompts ME from time to time... might be easier to slide into a comms cadence when the product can convert at a higher rate.
We use the free tier of Trello for a kanban board, not super dilligent with it but I find it a good place to dump thoughts in an ideation queue sometimes late at night. Helps my team see priorities too and we can take async conversations there specific to tasks.
I've been using LLM's more and more to talk through an idea, then have it dump a mermaid diagram, which I pipe into excalidraw to edit as a whiteboard. (the one on CLINKme.dev actually I did like this)
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AI bot can be useful, but consider the AI taste will be felt in the audience side. It usually cold and tasteless, full of useless emoji that try to compensate. I'll keep it simple for now, even one update a month about the progress will be much more appreciated than a daily automated bot.
Kanban boards are great for note keeping and prioritization in the long term.
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