Dubai, Devcon and a landing page…

So, a lot of things have happened since the last dev update. We have added more team members, been to a few conferences, and released a new landing page in preparation for our end of November MVP launch.

Product side

On the product side, we have some interesting things to share. Along with a UI/UX agency called JIN design in Singapore, we re-designed the landing page, with a new flow for claiming your unique username on Indorse. Now, you can claim something like:

I have already started using this as my social handle while giving it out for speaking events or other engagements.

(Please note that these links don’t do anything yet. Until the launch, they’ll be dormant links)

Done

Re-design of the landing page

Launch flow for claiming your own username

Integration with BigchainDB for a few endpoints

Fleshing out a more detailed decentralized architecture for Indorse

Implementation of social logins (Facebook, Google)

A basic wrapper implementation over BigchainDB to make life easier for our developers

Migration of the app from https://app.indose.io to https://indorse.io

Doing

Airbitz implementation for signup and login

Finishing up BigchainDB implementation for all the endpoints related to profile and CV visualizer

Confidence score for your user profile and uniqueness of your identity based on the number of social profiles and accounts you link

Finalizing the design and implementation of the CV visualizer for the launch

The team came together in a really solid way this week, working well together in order to deliver a complex migration and completing the workflow.

Arif delivered the landing page and the new workflow in a timely and awesome manner. Kedar finished the entire flow for claiming the username and social logins. Jae and Prasanna were working hard towards finishing up the backend endpoints for the entire workflow.

I think the most interesting technical aspect for these two sprints was the implementation of BigchainDB and fleshing out the decentralized architecture for the Indorse platform going forward. There are definitely some problems and unanswered questions that we have highlighted in red in the below diagram. We welcome any and all feedback from the community. You can reach out to us on our Slack or Telegram channels.

Indorse Decentralized Architecture

You can find the presentation about how we are planning to use BigchainDB over here — https://www.dropbox.com/s/15tl4opa9ws2lkc/BigchainDBFinal.ppsx?dl=0

Scaling up Indorseans

We added two Indorseans to the team in the past two weeks —

Anna from London — Anna has joined us as a Frontend engineer, working mainly on Blockchain related features. She’ll be implementing the Airbitz integration in the next few weeks

Ivo from Poland — Ivo has joined us a backend blockchain developer, mainly working on the Blockchain related features. He has a lot of experience working on Ethereum, and also identity management. He will be working on BigchainDB implementation along with Jack in the short term

Business Development

We have had a lot of announcements on the marketing and Business Development side —

Partnership with Adchain — http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/consensys-ad-tech-collaborates-indorse-1645346

Partnership with DNN — http://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/DNN-Signs-Partnership-with-Indorse-a-Decentralized-Network-for-Professionals-1006438240

Being a Silver Sponsor for the World Blockchain Summit in Dubai

David as a panel member at the Dubai World Blockchain Summit

Me, pitching about Indorse at the Dubai World Blockchain Summit

David and Naqib are meeting some awesome people at Devcon!

David with Oleksii, the white hat hero during the Parity Multi-sig hack

Naqib with the Etherscan team

David and Naqib with Alex Shin (Blockchain Partners Korea), Ian Love and Calvin Ngo (Blockchain Assets, Australia)

Current positions we are looking for: UI/UX designers.

Please feel free to drop us a mail at info@indorse.io should you be interested or know of anyone who should be a good fit for us.