Ecency team has a job of developing and maintaining number of services and apps on this space. While we do our daily duties we always keep Ecency community, people like you in mind and make sure we are bring you the best products, serving you the best.
Your support means a lot to us and because of that support we are here and continue to bring services and products that challenges web2 social networks and services.
Diverse yet power individuals like you, who want to take control of their speech, money and freedom is foundation of what we are working towards.
Who wouldn't love working for community like ours?!
Last year there was a short video about state of Ecency and future outlook, this year trying to change that to letter format. I try to keep it short!
What we do
We build opensource products that is designed to push forward adoption of #web3 and blockchain technology.
Ecency.com, Ecency mobile app and Ecency desktop app as well as Hivesigner, Hivesearcher, Hivexplorer projects are the ones we are currently working on and focusing on improving utility of each these projects is our goal.
We are constantly looking for ways to explore other fields as well, that pushes our team's limits. New directions to find new ways to improve engagement and utility of projects we are working on, so we can serve the community better.
The past year in brief
Year 2022 was quite eventful for our team. Year started out with us focusing on marketing and Press Releases. Later on technical development took over because we have had intense monthly releases for both Ecency website and mobile app and we lost some momentum on press releases. What I learned personally, press releases are great to get brand awareness and it needs to be done consistently. In press releases, usually goal was to introduce world about Ecency, web3 and Hive blockchain. I hope we can bring back consistency and have dedicated person for managing our press releases.
On Ecency.com project, we have released different major features such as Decks, Advanced Trading, Premium accounts. Mobile app side, there were few performance challenges that we had to spent few months researching and finding out best ways that would scale. New Multi-token wallet management on mobile app was loved by many which is indicator that people like to manage things in simplistic and unified way. We have had tough time proving some community members merits of Points and sometimes struggled to fight abuse as well. Luckily with community's support and help of our dedicated curators, we have established good guidelines to follow.
Due to budgeting cut on Hivesigner and Hivesearcher, we were not able to do much on those projects. Beginning of 2022, we managed to fix few User Interface related issues on Hivesigner. Also Hivesearcher API got few improvements that helped us to deliver few additions to Ecency.
However, we would like to improve Hivesigner UI further simplifying onboarding and usage for average users. Hivesigner is critical part of Hive ecosystem and we noticed that developers know how to integrate in into their projects, only usage of application by average internet joe seem to be lacking aspect of the project. We want to focus on those aspect this year.
Hivesearcher algorithms like controversial and rising seemed like a good direction to start exploring alternative content discovery, but this needed more research and exploring which we simply lacked time and resources to do. We want to allocate some resources into it this year as well.
Finally, we started new project Hivexplorer - opensource blockchain explorer for Hive. There are couple opensource and couple private explorers for Hive. We wanted to deliver something unique yet powerful, resembling legacy explorer with an eye towards futuristic explorer that will give you insight about ins and outs of blockchain activities. I am inspired by Etherscan project and would like to build something that will, not only look similar but also challenges our views of blockchain explorer. So far project had a good start but we have a lot to do. One of the unique selling point of Hivexplorer will be to offer REST API for free and for easy integration for dapp developers. Anyone who can work with REST API can integrate/use Hivexplorer API to fetch and format blockchain data.
Our team have also requested new funding from community DHF with slightly higher budgeting goals and scaling our team. For some reason community seemed hesitant and we ended up lowering our ask to achieve required support. It seem, we have to prove community our dedication and resilience bit more. We have adjusted our roadmap accordingly and team's dedication strong as before. Community funding helps us deliver our product goals quicker and it is not only one source of income to the team though. Witness earnings as well as Point purchases via PlayStore and AppStore even if not enough still contributes to total bundle of expenses. As a team leader, I personally feel responsible to our developers as well as our community to deliver efficiently and explore future potential revenue models.
Conclusion
A lot of things to learn from past year and great things to look forward to this year. I am confident, feel proud to be among you and grateful to every one that's supporting our cause, developers, community, stakeholders, curators, moderators, thought leaders. Let's make Hive great, make Ecency great and bring freedom of speech, freedom of money, tokenization to every corner of the world. Hive on!
Your servant,
Feruz - @good-karma
A wide range of projects, I congratulate on the goals achieved and support further development. I still say that Ecency is the fastest front-end for the Hive blockchain. Keep going! 💪😎👍
I love hive signer. It is just a shame that hive games and Dex's no longer use it in preference to keychain. I have nothing against keychain but seem to be able to break it (for myself) often. As far as the other projects keep up the good work. I even read about a couple I knew nothing of.
We will improve it for sure. It is one of the top apps on platform. We are thinking even bringing back browser extension with new light and functionality.
Thanks for your work.
i like the idea of a #controversial feed, but from a quick look i don't see anything controversial :-)
Would it help if for controversial posts we use #controversial tag?
Also, you could include link to support your DHF proposal. Now gonna look for it to make sure i've voted.
DHF proposal link))
https://ecency.com/proposals/245
I discovered Ecency this year and it's been really a nice platform to use.
I am glad for all the help you offer to everyone on the platform
I always wanted to use Ecency to better grasp its potential and features. Unfortunately it always requires me to provide my private keys here and there, which is a "no-go" for me for obvious security reasons.
I know it can be boring me asking the same question for months but when will Ecency support HiveAuth?
Ecency apps are opensource, private keys are stored locally and used just for signing transactions. It is same as hivesigner, keychain, hive.blog, peakd or any other apps on Hive. Also you have option to login with hivesigner, keychain along side of login with private key directly. As for HiveAuth, how many active people use it daily? We plan to add it after our mobile app supports it. Right now it requires extra app (keychain) to sign transactions which is not optimal, to give people easier access, we will need to add support for Ecency mobile app and offer seem less access across website and app. Any help with implementation is always welcome as our code is open, initiative to bootstrap integration will be appreciated, we might do this integration much quicker. 👍
It would be great to be able to read Palmpay QRcode and to pay with @ecency
https://hive.blog/hive-120117/@chrisaiki/introducing-palmpay-the-revolutionary-point-of-sale-dapp
May be you can coordinate your efforts with @agorise ?
Sure, we can add support for that. Added into our mobile app development backlog
Awesome! I lve the Ecency mobile app and it will be really awesome when it can read the Hive and HBD QR codes at all the PalmPay merchants. Thank you in advance! :)
I love using @ecency started using it 3 years ago great team top class dapp on hive
Thank you for all that you are doing. I'm going to make sure I'm supporting your DHF now.
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Keep up the fantastic work, Ecency Team!
Great job. I like Ecency!
Fun times.... and lot more fun times are soon more to come :)
Just not stop and try every day more and more :) .... it is hard to but more words here , you just said all what we need to hear :)
I encourage all initiative by ecency, thanks!
Thanks for the info, may ecency continue to be one of the best for all of us who are here, success is always
Always have it great from the team @ecency. Keep the good work
Keep up the great work team 😎
Thanks for the update.
Awesome work you are doing @good-karma!🤗
You made hive experience mobile. Great job done team
Gracias por las informaciones sobre Ecency. Sigan adelante. Gracias por su apoyo
Keep up the great work!
You are doing great job.
To me ecency is the best place to hive on.
Keep up doing good karma , result wil be good also. Ecency on! Hive on!
Thanks for all your efforts! Ecency is my go to app for HIVE. Great mobile experience
Great work by the Ecency team until now and looking forward to another great year. The ETHERSCAN on HIVE would be pretty awesome!
Indeed, we are in process of creating one. 👍
Great work and let's hope you get all the funding that you require from the community!
Where do the press releases get released to?
We tried different platforms to see where it is most effective but we realized almost all of them had same potential and exposure. Always good to diversify.
Great work and a good future for all. Congrats @good-karma and the team.
Everything was good until I read this
Your servant,You are one of the valuable Hive community member/developer & most of Hive users are your clients.
Cheers~
We are here to serve each other for greater purpose, isn’t it?! Happy to be able to serve you and others with our applications and services! 🙏
Ecency молодцы!!!
Without ecency and hivesigner I would never have joined the blogging platform because it was too complicated for a novice like me. Moreover, the mobile app allows me to follow blogs, vote and comment from anywhere, which is very appreciable when you have little time to devote to all these actions. Thank you for your work
Thank you for your kind words! Both products still need some love and improvement, important to know we moving right direction. 🙇♂️
I understand, this is why I have written my testimony ;)
💪🏻Strong!🖤
I Thank You for being Here!
🤗
OMG, I didn't see this post til now!! I only use Ecency for all my personal activities in Hive, it's the best front-end, but noy only that... you have the best team!!
Thank you all for the amazing work you done, keep it up!! 🤩🤗
!LUV
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Improvement is the key. Thanks to the team for all the work they put in to make this work. I am happy to be here
Thanks for such work you and your team are doing. I am a constant user of Ecency and I love the easiness of use (and the incentives that the team I providing).
If ai may be of help, just let me know 💪
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Great job guys keep it up
please help me develop my creativity 🙏🎨
Thanks for you visit to my post in 10 april 2023
New on Hive and I find ecency very easy to use.
Thanks for you visit to my post in 2 may 2023
I need some power
Ecency is one of the best thing to happen to hive as it has made blogging easy and the consistent upgrading and mainainance is something worth talking about. I would be honored if you'll be willing to grant an interview with my brand soon enough after its launch on the hive chain am sure a lot more want to know about the ecency and how it has managed to survive.
Thank you
I love ecency.
Your report about on ecency is very useful and meaningful. You have a lot of experience
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My Listening all power free LAPF and just as a new Hiver on the Blockchain ecosystem that read your letter appreciate feruz, I want to recognize you as a tremendous leader. And I want to aggregate this small and short tip for your Road Map: "Do not rest looking for Best practices on HIVE Explorers, HIVE researchers, because of outer side exist many people expecting to the Ecency team for give them the Listening power free. Thanks a lot colleague. Please, sorry if I extend the tip. @alberto0607 @yonnathang @tsunsica
Great
It's great being on this platform. I love the objective of Ecency and Hive. They are great platforms. I am glad being among you.
Thank you for the update and keep up all the great work Feruz.