In this Dev Update, I will be discussing our current scaling up of staff, the KyberNetwork Airdrop, latest updates as far as the product is concerned, feedback on the private alpha, and the London conference I am attending.

Product side —

We have been working hard on the product since the last dev update, and also incorporating the feedback from the early alpha testers, including our advisors and the early batch of developers we opened it up to. The main idea is to improve and flesh out the profile page and open it up on the testnet and then the mainnet as a small but complete feature! More on that in the second update regarding the product roadmap next week!

Both Prasanna and Kedar worked on the profile page additions and some other improvements in the UI regarding the “owner”/”admin” of the app and the Smart Contracts. One of the useful feedbacks by our advisor Ben Chan was that we should make the profile easily shareable with others, since that’s going to be a core strength of the Indorse platform to begin with. On my side, I was working on the script for distributing bounties to the early social media campaigners, and making sure everything went smoothly. I am also concentrating mainly on exploring new solutions for on-boarding the users and hiring aggressively.

Scaling up Indorseans

Developers —

We just made an offer to Jae Seok An, who just graduated from King’s College London. He is a solid developer and is pursuing an internship at Expedia currently. He will join us in the first week of October. He will be working out of the London office for a while, and then subsequently move to Singapore in a few months (most probably).

Apart from Jae, several other developers across India and London are undergoing a coding test, and we will make some of them offers based on those results. Should have a solid team of at least 7–8 good developers in the next month or two.

Business Development —

New Head of Business Development, Naqib Noor will be joining us on Monday, October 2. Naqib is the former Sales Operations Manager for Rocket Internet in Singapore. Naqib has great connections in the talent recruitment space in Singapore. He’ll also be working on developing the business partnerships for Indorse.

In the past 2 weeks we’ve received over 500+ resumes, had almost 150 calls and have made 6 offers. Yes, we have been selective in making an offer only to the people who can really add a lot of value to our product. Dipesh has been really busy up to his nose, browsing through the resumes and helping me choose the right candidates.

AirDrop News for KNC —

Kyber Network Crystal (KNC) AirDrop — Our friends at Kyber began their KNC airdrop on September 25, this will continue over the next several days as they spread out transactions to avoid overloading the ethereum blockchain. If you participated in the IND sale, you should have your KNC by October 3. You do not need to do anything to receive these tokens. They will be sent directly to the Ethereum address that you participated in the Indorse sale with.

Exchanges —

IND is currently listed on YoBit, Coss.io, Gatecoin and the decentralized exchange Etherdelta. We are in discussions with a number of other exchanges and will update as soon as possible. We are also looking at other existing and upcoming decentralized exchanges as additional liquidity options. Kyber, Comit, RadarRelay (on 0x), can’t come soon enough!

Good news! We just got listed on HitBTC today!

Last but not the least, the conference

World Blockchain Forum, Keynote, London —

Indorse CTO Gaurang Torvekar on the stage at WBF, London

I pitched on the stage about Indorse, and it was well received by the crowd. There were quite a few interesting people out there, and this helped get some more visibility for the project. What we found out is that people can actually connect with the idea and find it quite interesting, one reason being that LinkedIn is not a favourite among most of it’s users. We also showed the demo of the private alpha to several people and they just loved it!

Apart from the pitch, we also had an exhibition booth at the conference. Avadhoot was exceptional in bringing in a lot of new partnerships. We will be announcing more details about them pretty soon as the details will be solidified. We were there with several other ICOs like Propy, Adex, Bluezelle, ProSense, and up and coming ones like Storm, Qibee, Pesabase.

Top: Our advisors Eddy Travia and Moe Levin on the panel, Below: Indorse team with the other ICOs at WBF

Current positions we are looking for: UX/UI, Node,js, React, Ethereum Smart Contract Developers. Please feel free to drop us a mail at info@indorse.io should you be interested or would be aware of anyone who should be a good fit for us.

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