The End-to-End Journey: Get Inspired, Create and Operate

We are aiming to create meaningful value in each stage of the developer’s journey — all the way from the initial inspiration to routine operation. To meet our goals, we are planning to offer our platform as a modular structure where developers can adopt separate modules selected to fit their specific needs (more about modules below). In addition, we will provide essential information for each step of the developer’s journey for various stakeholders, including remote-friendly education materials.

The chart below describes the different touch points in the developer’s journey, its related product offerings, as well as its related stakeholders.

End-to-end developer journey and its related stakeholders

A lot has been said about the Kin Rewards Engine and Kin SDK. Here, I’d like to dive deeper into the other overarching components being developed for the Kin platform.

Kin Academy

The Kin Academy is a strategic initiative on the content side of things that is still in the process of being built. However, I can share here that this will become THE place for any developer to learn why, how, and what they will be able to achieve with Kin. Our goal is to leverage our vision and our experience to help potential partners open up their minds to new ideas and to help the existing partners along their journey to success.

The Kin Academy will be an integral part of Kin’s developer hub and will provide a self-serve arena to build magnetic experiences with Kin. It will become a place to educate developers about Kin and its potential from any aspect of business: From technical to product and business angles in various forms of media, text, video, and audio. For instance, developers will be able to find answers for what’s in it for them, what to build with Kin, how to explain Kin to their end-users, how to develop a Kin roadmap etc.

Kin Modules

Kin modules product framework

Switching to Module Thinking helps Kin to be even more developer-centric. The Kin SDK contains only the core functionality of our platform. But on top of this core SDK each developer will be able to select and integrate additional separate modules that best suit their needs. Some of those modules will add individual capabilities to the app, and some of them will perform as ready-made Kin experiences complete with UIs. This arrangement makes integration easier and allows us to reach a wider spectrum of developers.

As an open-source platform, in the future, we are planning to incentivize and make it easy for any developer to build modules and share them as digital assets with Kin’s Ecosystem. This will enable more developers to contribute to our efforts to expand the Kin SDK’s capabilities, boost innovation, maximize the ease of integration and build a platform that developers love.

Kin Analytics

When a developer adopts a solution, he wants to make sure that he is doing well. He wants to be able to have a place to monitor the app’s performance in various fields that can affect his business. In the context of Kin, we think that the developers would also like to use these tools to balance their in-app economy and maximize their KRE rewards. We are currently working on an MVP version of the Kin Analytics tool. Stay tuned.