​​App Miners Call 

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​November 2019

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​Introductions (In Chat) ​👋​

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​Congrats to the November winners and Bonus Winners: 
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​​ImageOptimizer https://imageoptimizer.xyz/
​​Moodify https://moodify.cc/
​​pNotes
​​pBookmarks
​​Dcasso 
​​Magic Spoon
​​Inner peace

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​Reminders ​🗓️​ 

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​Updates: 

  • ​​Everything is in dry run except for App Redirect policy 
  • ​​Awario Scoring and Common Questions (Mitchell) 

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​Discussion (Add here please ​⬇️​ ) 

  • ​​Awario
  • ​​Apply rules about app clones more strictly
  • ​​Should there be a limitation of number of apps that can be submitted by a single entity or person? (E.g Arcane submitting multiple different single use apps.)
  • ​​Do we still need dry run periods for reviewer changes? 
  • ​​DCast, took contents from popular podcast, is there a written permission that the developer can download the podcast and use it on his website? ) Not Important
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​October

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​Introductions (In Chat) ​👋​

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​Congrats to all the winners and bonus winners: 

  • ​​Congrats pDrive
  • ​​This month’s New App Bonus winners are earning $1k in STX each for being best new app this month, below. They’re not on the website yet, but sharing here (audit until Nov 1): 
  1. ​​pDrive 
  1. ​​Photo Vault
  1. ​​Secure Calendar
  1. ​​Dclouds
  1. ​​Compress Studio
  1. ​​Evergreen Photos
  1. ​​Culinary
  1. ​​Dcrypt
  1. ​​Inspire You
  1. ​​Piara
  1. ​​Relayable

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​Reminders ​🗓️​ 

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​Updates

  • ​​Oct. STX Payments timeline — Nov. 6 email update (Gina) 
  • ​​STX Payments & Tax Implications update #160 (Gina) 
  • ​​Removing Product Hunt Votes as app reviewer starting November, 2019
  • ​​First month of new Awario reviews (Mitchell)
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​Discussion

  • ​​Product Hunt as requirement for app mining #164 (Patrick) 
  • ​​More frequent TryMyUI reviews #168 & #153(Gina and Patrick)
  • ​​Add question to testing: “is this app obviously broken?”
  • ​​If app miners aren’t reviewing apps, no longer reviewed by TryMyUI?
  • ​​App redirects #147 
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​List questions/discussion here 

  • ​​Awario News/Blogs reach count is missing from most mentions, and incorrect for sources like Medium
  • ​​App Ownership by Blockstack ID #170
  • ​​Proof of progress #169
  • ​​Use labels #157
  • ​​Teach about Facebook and Instagram for Awario
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​Zenhub view of App Mining repo
​​https://www.zenhub.com/ – install the extension then view the issues in Github. 
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​September

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​Introductions (In Chat) ​👋​

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  • ​​Congrats Dmail
  • ​​Bonus Winners (Best new app — all get $1,000 in STX right now) 
  • ​​SatsHi
  • ​​MyPodium 
  • ​​StartupList 
  • ​​Lists
  • ​​POW! 
  • ​​Arcane Maps 
  • ​​Nomie
  • ​​Land Ho! 
  • ​​Help a Stranger Out 
  • ​​Atomichabits
  • ​​Githuman

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​Reminders ​🗓️​ 

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​Updates ​‼️​

  • ​​STX Payments accruing (Gina) 
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​Discussion ​⚖️​

  • ​​Awario Changes Reminder (Mitchell) (#135)
  • ​​NIL scoring (Larry) 
  • ​​Redirects (#147)
  • ​​Email sign up (#146)
  • ​​Blockstack auth hard to find (#148)
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​​👇​ List questions/discussion here 

  • ​​Please use labels in the git repo
  • ​​mobile testing (for web apps) on trymui (#152)
  • ​​Max score for app reviewer (#154)
  • ​​Can we talk about exact details for every other month testing? Off months? New # of reviews?
  • ​​Blockstack Branding vs Easy Onboarding (#148)
  • ​​Any interest in measuring that a Dapp encourages the interaction or collaboration with other users link
  • ​​How could/should we encourage Collections? – Request for proposal 
  • ​​Blockstack ID for app ownership → updates from apps
  • ​​Any suggestions or guidelines in how to integrate in the Dapp the benefits in using Blockstack IDs and etc?
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​​Live doc

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​Discussion ​⚖️​

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​August

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​August rankings are out ​🥳​

  • ​​Congrats Dmail
  • ​​Bonus Winners (Best new app — all get $1,000 in STX right now) 
  1. ​​Arcane Docs
  1. ​​EZ Resize
  1. ​​Arcane Photos 
  1. ​​Dphone
  1. ​​Arcane Sheets 
  1. ​​Dapps.id
  1. ​​Feed
  1. ​​Arcane marks
  1. ​​HeyWebby  
  1. ​​Can’t Be Evil

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​Introductions (In Chat) ​👋​

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​Reminders ​🗓️​ 

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​Updates ​‼️​

  • ​​Lambda school partnership (Patrick) 
  • ​​STX Payments accruing (Gina) 
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​Discussion ​⚖️​

  • ​​TryMyUI (Patrick) 
  • ​​Monthly timeline (Gina) 
  • ​​App.co maker panel (Hank) 
  • ​​Future of these meetings — e.g. featured speakers etc. (Patrick) 
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​​👇​ List questions/discussion here 

  • ​​When the categories evaluation will start? Difficult to compete more complex applications with utilities!
  • ​​It is a challenge to try to develop completely new, a new category, dapp and compete with the AppMining model we have now.  But we understand it is a way to increase Dapps. Innovative level, but the market will come later.
  • ​​Do the DApp Developers participating in the AppMining program will a free ticket for the Blockstack Summit in San Francisco in October?  [email: shannon@blockstack.com]
  • ​​Is blockstack working on a mechanism that would allow counting app popularity usage for apps without publish_data permission ?
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​July

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​July rankings are out ​🥳​

  • ​​Congrats Dmail

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​Introductions ​👋​

  • ​​Random fact: Today is Jeff’s birthday ​🎂​ ​🎁​ 

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​Reminders ​📅​

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​Updates ​‼️​

  • ​​Review period will be ~7 days from ~15th each month (Gina)
  • ​​We need STX addresses and KYC from all of you (Gina)

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​Discussion ​⚖️​

  • ​​Awario update (Mitchell)
  • ​​Can’t Be Evil apps ineligibility (Larry)
  • ​​Potential fixes or upgrades to App Mining signup and admin (Jeff)

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​​👇​ List questions/discussion here 

  • ​​​✅​ Dry runs / heads up for App Mining changes
  • ​​Changes should be made in sync with months not between months
  • ​​​✅​ Move identification of app owners from email to blockstack id?
  • ​​mentioned already during this call in App Mining signup/admin
  • ​​What to do to improve Product Hunt score and how much PH should be more important than TrymyUI(where users use it more than on PH)
  • ​​Could cover specified format of release notes
  • ​​Could be published on OI App Center ;-)
  • ​​Wilson – too early to review. 
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​June

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​June rankings are out ​🥳​

  • ​​Congrats Dmail

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​Introductions ​👋​

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​Reminders ​📅​

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​Updates ​‼️​

  • ​​Snag in payouts Wed night (Gina)

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​Discussion ​⚖️​

  • ​​Transition to Stacks - Q&A (Patrick)
  • ​​We need STX addresses and KYC from all of you (Gina)
  • ​​Awario access update
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​​👇​ List questions/discussion here 

​​Future of Product Hunt as an app reviewer - upvotes and decay?
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​​👇​ Upvoted issues

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​May

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​May rankings are out

  • ​​​🎉​​🎉​​🎉​ Congrats BitPatron
  • ​​Welcome: Lattice, Closet, Pgeon, Paradigma CrossCheck, Local Lightning, BlockBoard, Code Code Revolution
  • ​​Chat intros

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​Reminders

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​Updates

  • ​​All apps reviewed by all reviewers #91 Sorry Gladys ​😔​
  • ​​TryMyUI Audiences #1: App Miners have the option to add product based audience filters to their TryMyUI testing. 
  • ​​Pause Democracy Earth as an App Reviewer #92

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​Discussion

  • ​​Awario is live. Reminder on how scoring works, tour of the interface, questions
  • ​​Credible vs. Non-credible from Product Hunt
  • ​​Announcing plan for future payouts and app reviewers. TBD new system will start in September 2019. What questions do you have? 
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​​👇​ List questions/discussion here 

  • ​​Awario didn't log a blog about my app. What to do? Only news publications are considered 
  • ​​Tim: How are the audiences working?
  • ​​Centralized apps staying high in rankings (via Alex from DebutApp)
  • ​​Trymyui is a very valuable  service to learn how a global audience sees your dapp.  Important to maintain.
  • ​​Can we log any changes to the Draft results after they are released so we can follow it up with out having to fiddle out what changed? ​@Hank S​ ??
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​​👇​ Upvoted issues

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​​✔️​ Action Items

  • ​​Follow up for clarity on credible votes on ProductHunt ​@Hank S​ 
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​April

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​April rankings are out

  • ​​​🎉​ Congrats to new apps: Scannie, BitPatron, Concord, Cafe Society, Diffuse, Utilo, MarvinFlix
  • ​​We have now paid out over $500K ​🙌​ 
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​Repo and change Log

  • ​​Thank you Thomas and Gina! ​👏​
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​TryMyUI updates

  • ​​​🔟​ Each app gets 10 reviewers and the best and worst are excluded.
  • ​​Thanks Tim! ​👏​
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​New Internet Labs updates

  • ​​First live results. Thanks Larry! ​👏​
  • ​​Tested in Windows/FF. Failed logins were emailed. 
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​Awario updates

  • ​​Adding a new awareness app reviewer with Awario #30
  • ​​Thanks Mitchell! ​👏​
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​Product Hunt

  • ​​​🎛​ Started supplying us with monthly data – allowing us to decay these scores and also reward apps for relaunching. More updates and proposals soon! 
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​PBC updates

  • ​​Decrease weight of memory function to 25% #69
  • ​​Implement community audit #50
  • ​​We will post dry run data shortly with a preview for next month. 
  • ​​Thanks Hank! ​👏​
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​Democracy earth

  • ​​Proposal to pause Democracy Earth #92
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​News from Blockstack Token LLC public filing

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​​“Application developers will receive rewards out of a total reward pool of Stacks Tokens, expected to start at a size of $300,000 in Stacks Tokens for the first month after qualification of this offering statement (priced as described under “—Pricing” below), and increasing by $100,000 monthly until the eighth month of the program, in which the reward reaches $1,000,000.”
  • ​​PBC team is working on details with external experts. We will share preliminary plan in coming coming months. All of it is subject to regulatory approval. The answer to every question in this area will be: “We are working on it. And all of it is subject to regulatory approval.” 
  • ​​Thanks Patrick! (Patrick has been fighting hard for this) ​👏​
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​Upvoted issues

  • ​​Will the percentage of payout per app publisher decrease with the increase of the total pot?
  • ​​What about evaluating apps for localization?
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