After reaching our ICO goal 11 days ago, we now have to turn the majority of our focus towards the product. Again, we would like to thank everyone who helped us achieve our goal as it would not be possible without the supporters of Crowdholding.

In this article, we will focus on the product’s next few months and what challenges we are aiming to overcome.

We will be focusing on the two kinds of people who use our platform:

Startups — who want to grow their business idea / concept.

Crowdholders — who like to co-create with startups.

Because these users have different needs and requirements, we are planning to have different views on the platform. This will allow us to create the best possible user experience for both startup owners and Crowdholders.

Startups

Every successful startup has to go through development phases to continually grow as a company. If a startup skips phases, or goes through a phase too quickly, it could be the root of future failure.

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But this can be difficult and rather expensive for the startup, especially for new entrepreneurs. Therefore we want to help you to go through these stages as much as possible by using the wisdom of the crowd via our platform. We intend to create specialized modules where each module has been deisgned to help you with specific problem.

Modules for startups:

Feedback module

Helps you gain valuable feedback from Crowdholders about your first ideas, or about your prototype. Do you have innovative idea, but you are not sure if people want it? Use our Feedback module and tweek your idea.

Co-creating module

If you validate your idea, we help you co-create a MVP by using the wisdom of the crowd. Do you need a new logo? Ask our Crowdholders, get feedback on your designs and choose the best one — either from the most votes, or just design you like most. Maybe you already have a design but you need somebody to code it? Reach out to our users to find that designer.

Bounty system module

When your MVP is ready and you want to promote it, use the power of the Crowdholding community. Easily sharing across social media in an organic manner, the community reaches friends and colleagues to widen your audience.

Community module

We know how important it is to create a great community. On Crowdholding you can easily see the most engaged Crowdholders connected to your project. You will be able to categorise users, create groups, send bulk messages, or just direct messages.

Sales module

Have a product to sell? Find potential customers through your crowdholders, or even sell directly to them. There are few customers more keen than those who helped build the product.

Dashboard

One place where you can see all important statistics — number of engaged users, top active users, tasks with the most comments, etc. Everything you need to evaluate your feedback and to show to potential investors.

We have a lot of other ideas, but first we want to create the features and modules which are most valuable for you. Therefore we will need also your help. At the end of article you can see how you can participate.

Crowdholders

Crowdholders are the co-creators and the core of our platform. They’re the ones bringing value to the startups through their feedback and love of co-creation.

As you might know, the ultimate goal of our platform is crowd-sourcing the knowledge and co-creation that you get rewarded for in terms of revenue.

So who are the Crowdholders?

We can see four main types of people using our platform in next few months.

People who want to earn some cryptocurrency without investing into ICOs. Product or Startup supporters who are passionate about the product as it will solve their problems. Specialists who want to use their skills to help startups in their spare time — either out of pure altruism or to gain extra skills and experience. Wantrepreneurs — people who have a dream of creating their own startup and want to get inspired and learn from how other people go about it as well as see the progress and change in the startup journey.

These people have different drives to use our platform (earning, altruism, portfolio building, etc.) and therefore also have different needs. We’re going to build on top of them so we can fully tap into their potential so they can help startups grow and flourish.

With that in mind, here are a few upcoming changes we are planning to roll out that will improve the experience of the user (you).

Improving the current User Experience. Improving the way you can answer tasks and facilitate discussion. Improve the experience of discovering the right task or startup for you. Rewarding users for spending their time on our platform, reading answers and upvoting (there is no crowd of one) and to reduce spam. (This will be the hardest one to crack).

Next steps …

The next few weeks we are going to create our first prototype of our vision and we want to interview as many startups and crowdholders as possible.

Let’s create a great product together!

So If you like our ideas, want more information, or want to participate in our user interviews, send Patrik an email at patrik@crowdholding.com.

We really appreciate any feedback (or praise), and of course we reward the best ideas with YUP!

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Kind regards,

Patrik Charous (Head of Product), Joe Sovcik (Product Manager, UX expert)