There’s a lot to write in this dev update. Our team has been busy over the last two weeks doing some awesome stuff. We are fast approaching our first internal deadline for generating leads for the end-November launch.

Product Side

On the product side, I was working on the Airdrop code, the overall architecture, working on getting the UI/UX agency up to speed. The backend team was working on automating the build processes, setting up docker for the local development environment.

Done

Dockerizing our apps for local developer on-boarding

Using CircleCI for automated builds

IND airdrop — FINALLY! (I noticed a significant increase in the speed of transactions after the first Metropolis release. Managed to finish almost 6–7 transactions after that pretty quickly)

Integration with IPFS — for photos and other files

Almost 100% test case coverage for the NodeJS codebase

Doing

Merging landing page and app — will help us create Vanity URLs for the users like indorse.io/gaurang or indorse.io/david

or Integration with BigchainDb — we looked at the design and architecture of BigchainDB critically, analysed the potential pitfalls. We also re-visited our discussions and vision of decentralizing the entire stack and why and what type of decentralization, taking as a reference Vitalik’s popular post. Conclusion is that, we are going to host the BigchainDB nodes as a federated cluster to begin with. This, I believe is the first step towards a truly decentralized database. It gives us more time to figure out the data privacy issues across various jurisdictions and the legal framework.

Scaling up Indorseans

We have three new people joining us during this time

Jae from London — Jae will be working on the backend code, along with Blockchain stack

Jack from London — Jack will be working mainly on the integrations with the Blockchain stack, and currently he’s working on the integration with BigchainDB

Arif in Singapore — Arif is working on the front-end, ReactJS code. Currently he’s working on merging the landing page in the app code itself. Arif has an interesting story. He was a hair stylist until last year, when started to learn how to code in ReactJS. He has learned a lot in the last 6–8 months, and hence we hired him as a Junior Front End Engineer. This fits in with the whole ethos of Indorse’s ‘Skills Economy’ vision. Avadhoot will cover this story in another blog post.

Started working with a UI/UX agency in Singapore called JIN Design

So now, in total, we have about 5 developers, one product manager and myself working across India, Singapore and London with 3 more joining by mid-November. Including the operations and marketing team, we are now a total of 11 people across these three locations!

Business Development

Naqib has been attending a number of meetups, building relationships with the people in the community in order to get potential partnerships.

David has been working on some already existing conversations, and we should have some good news in a week or two.

Avadhoot has written some excellent blog posts, and is working on the digital marketing and content marketing side, as always.

David and I were on a panel along with Eddy Travia from Coinsilium, one of our early investors, at the Startuptoken event in Singapore, where several new ICOs across Europe and Australia were presenting about their exciting technologies. David and I spoke about our learnings from doing the Indorse ICO and the utility of the IND token, our launch timeline, etc.

Indorse Founders on a panel about their ICO experience

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 would be aware of anyone who should be a good fit for us.

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