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:

Building and styling a brand-new homepage still needs more content

Polishing our UX/UI for both a tipper and a tippee

Tipper dashboard -

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the tip is first seen to when it has been claimed then through each onboarding step we take them until the tip has been withdrawn to an LN Wallet.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