This is amazing @nerd2ninja I am forever grateful for the time you took to test our product and share it here on Stacker News!🙂
I was very curious to see who it was that jumped right up to position #2 on our Leaderboard 🏆 https://lgt.st/scoreboard
I really enjoyed all experiences you have written about, from yours to your co-worker to your girlfriend.
With your experience, LNURL-withdrawal is one of the easiest ways to get someone new to withdraw their funds to their own wallet. Our first proof of concept had it where you had to first generate an invoice on your wallet then go back to Lightsats and paste it there and authorize the transaction which is what you mentioned you have been used to do. But for a completely new user experience we wanted to cut down the steps the user would have to do in order to get them to withdraw. I think we still need to do work on that withdrawal page, the QR code is not intuitive for a new user and they don't know they can just simply click on it to open the wallet they had just downloaded, we did add a button at the that says "Open in wallet" which helps with this.
For your co-worker experience, I really like this one given that I have also tested with a few co-workers and they did not follow-through the onboarding and did not download a wallet, so once the tip had been expired I was able to reclaim those sats and sent them off to my own wallet. We just introduced notifications via SMS or Email which notifies the user that their tip will expire within a 24hr period of time. We have to continue working on this to make sure we notify the user and incentivize them to follow through and complete the onboarding. We will not be able to get 100% success rate so there will be some cases where Lightsats won't work but maybe in a few years when the price of bitcoin has gone up they will remember that first experience and be more receptive to it. Also one of the awesome features we have is the live user journey update, so you can tell where the user dropped off and if you have a personal relationship with them you can guide them through yourself and at least show a few examples of things they could do with their sats.
Your girlfriend's experience I'm glad she was able to follow-through with one of our wallet recommendations, from the testing we have been doing Breez & Phoenix really has one of the easiest onboarding experiences, you just need to download the app and you're ready to add sats right away. The wallet backup is not intrusive and the UI is a really nice one. I'm glad she was able to withdraw her sats using the LNURL-withdraw QR code. not sure if she opened up the link on a desktop and was able to scan the screen with her phone or if she opened the link on her phone and clicked on the link to open the wallet.
Again thank you so much for the detailed feedback and for taking the time to test our product and test it with your other users!
The final submission for the BOLT🔩FUN - Legends of Lightning ⚡️Tournament is tomorrow, so we will be submitting pitch video and a final story about the product, our progress and the future of Lightsats!
Hope to have some updates for you guys soon on how it goes.
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