I’m with you on the need for an alternative to Facebook, but so far I don’t like the Synereo model (search for their posts on this forum and you’ll find my misgivings if you’ve not seen them).
I think you are correct in the core problem though: migration / inertia. On the other hand, if SAFEnetwork gains traction and people begin to find it inconvenient to keep using Facebook compared to native SAFEnetwork apps, that could help. We should help people build apps on SAFEnetwork whatever - every app will help bring/retain users, and help everyone get more value from it.
Interesting that you think there is issues with their model. I’ll have a search for them.
Yes, maidsafe may take sometime to get a big move over, but I think it could happen. I’m actually visiting China at the moment and it is very interesting to see how little I can access here: Google, Facebook and YouTube being the main ones I’ve noticed. Not only does the world need secure and private platforms it needs ones that break down borders just like bitcoin is doing with finance.
I’m a software controls engineer that works with automated machinery / systems, but seriously thinking of taking some time out to learn some other programming languages so I can build on top of maidsafe and blockchain systems. All this stuff interests me far too much. I need to find a way I can contribute more and play around with ideas.
If I’ve learned one thing then it’s to follow what excites you. It’s not worth doing stuff that’s only so-so when there’s other stuff that’s just wayyy more thrilling
The upside of being in the vanguard of devs working with these new protocols surely outweighs any downside possibility of it all being fruitless?!
We all have to take calculated gambles in our lives. To my mind the really important thing is to always make sure you shoot for the biggest upside, so hopefully you end up getting somewhere amazing eventually.
Sure. The £500k or so that we took in in btc at October is now worth around £960k so has given us a bit of extra room. Monthly run rate is around £80k so we have an extra 5.75 months as a result of the price increase, all things remaining equal.
As you know part of the reason for the fundraising was to scale the team to speed up development and we are hoping to grow the team from around 18 at present to 33/34 staff by the end of 2017, provided we can find the right team members, which of course if a challenge for every software company at the moment. We’ve actually had a few decent CVs come our way over the Christmas holidays so hoping we have some more renew recruits soon. So our run rate will also increase significantly but very difficult to predict the speed at which this will happen.
Not yet, much depends on how quick we can hire/launch etc. We have chased our tails a little wiht the changes in routing taking so long, but that team is really increasing in many ways, people, skills etc. so lets hope that last of the big showstoppers is behind us now. I am hoping for a break very soon, but I always do hope
Thanks, it’s like the polar opposite of our original crowd sale where btc plummeted We all deserve a break sometimes. We are now close to be able to sub contract some components out for more speed. It all helps and we take every opportunity to go faster, lets all hope this keeps going and allows us to really accelerate, not only through launch but also beyond though application development.
It seems then, now, in retrospect, a fortune I had problems with my modest BTTC Maidsafe investment through a bank transfer and therefore went for the easier Bitcoins transfer (for me at least).
On the other hand probably one of the reasons that Bitcoin is increasing in value.
When the btc price went up my very first thought was I hope this helps out the team! Maidsafe is always at the forefront of my mind for a lot of reasons but mainly to see @dirvine vision of freedom and a better future for all to come to fruition. So glad the price rise helped! As far as sub contracting that most likely is front end and design stuff yes? And mobile should be a swift launch with Apache Cordova as well?
If I may be so bold, you were well aware of the equity sale and its one-off time limit. Nothing to wish for that you haven’t already had the opportunity for.
