The Gutenberg Era is all about defining and building the decentralized platform for marketplaces that drive creativity, distribution, and monetization of creative works. We’re building features needed by partners to increase the number of creative works registered on the open Po.et platform.

We’ve just finished delivering on our plan to build the first onramps to that platform: the Frost API will allow the community to hash creative works to the blockchain. The Wordpress plugin allows up to 30% of all websites the option to post all their content to the platform. Other onramp plugins can be found on our integrations page: Po.et/integrations

With that foundation and proof our ability to execute delivered, it’s time to kick our development efforts up a notch and refocus on our ability to scale the platform to meet the demands of the partners we’re hoping to attract.

Our onnramp plugins can be found on our integrations page: Po.et/integrations

With that in mind, we made some key hires: You can read more about them here, here and here. I’m Eric Elliott, Vice President of Engineering. The engineering team is responsible for turning the product vision and roadmap into working technology.

Prior to bringing us on, the Po.et team had a grand vision: tear down the walls of the content walled gardens and allow an open ecosystem to flourish, unlocking the value of content for everyone. They expertly executed on that vision, running with a lean skeleton crew to build something worthy of presenting to the real content market.

Now that we’ve got a working platform with real media partners providing feedback, we need the flexibility to reorganize roadmap priorities in order to deliver the most real value as quickly as we can.

Some of you may have noticed we’ve removed the dates from our forward-looking roadmap: a standard practice for agile teams. That was done with speed and flexibility in mind, so we can respond to real human needs.

Po.et is absolutely committed to deliver on our established mission. What we’re after with the date removal is the freedom to deliver the most valuable targets on the roadmap first by pushing less valuable targets to out on the roadmap. Please bear with us as it may take time to define the most active pain points of our users.

Our primary input for what those most valuable features are doesn’t come from us internally, it comes from you: the platform users and POE holders seeking value from the platform. That was the whole point of hiring an executive team so experienced with delivery in this space. We are already plugged into the community we serve. If we weren’t building Po.et, we’d be using the platform ourselves.

Now that we have a working platform in the hands of users, led by such a capable and experienced team with solid track records shipping products at scale, we have a much better view of what the most valuable targets are.

And because we don’t succeed unless the community succeeds, unlike the walled gardens of today, our incentives are well aligned with the community’s needs.

In short, we want your content to thrive, and we’re working hard to make that happen.