CoinFi News - Closed Beta Testing, New Database.

gero treh
gero treh
Sep 4, 2018 · 3 min read

At the end of July, we rolled out CoinFi News to a small number of early beta testers.

Since then we’ve been gathering user feedback, conducting 1-on-1 user interviews, prioritizing feature requests, and improving the product accordingly.

Although we’ve been receiving feature requests and suggestions on a daily basis, talking with our users directly is core part of the product development cycle.

We had extensive 1-on-1 conversations with 22 users in August. Some of these interviews were for usability testing, but we also just wanted to talk to CoinFi users and get a better understanding of how you trade crypto these days.

The highlights of using CoinFi News for the participants were 1) having a single destination where you can get the news that matters 2) an intuitive layout for browsing and reading crypto news stories and 3) a filtering experience that makes it easy to find news about projects and subjects that you care about.

Of course there were lowlights as well. Some of you wanted us to surface only market moving news (a feature we’re still developing). You also suggested a number of UX improvements, such as adding a unread/read feature, making price charts more functional, adding a social component, improving load speed and more.

We’re taking your feedback into account as we continue to improve CoinFi News and our upcoming products, and we’re looking forward to getting your feedback on the feature releases we have coming in the near future.

CoinFi’s New Database: from 1,971 Coins and ICOs to 6,900 Coins and ICOs

If you’ve been following along since our ICO, you know that it’s been an up and down journey. In rushing to deliver on a very public deadline back on April 6, the public beta we released didn’t meet expectations, neither yours nor ours.

Since then we’ve scaled up our data team. With a new data scientist and data engineer joining us full time this summer, the CoinFi data team now stands at four full-time team members. They’ve been working hard to build a solid data infrastructure here at CoinFi.

Now, you’ll be able to explore over 6,900 coins and ICOs in the CoinFi Database with accurate data that’s updated and quality checked on a daily basis, compared to the 1,971 coins and ICOs we had previously.

We scan the web across a large number of public data sources and use intelligent matching algorithms to recognize the same coin across multiple resources. On top of that, we run automated quality assessments of our data and have a moderators who are responsible for maintaining data quality.

It’s what the CoinFi database should have been from the start.

The Main Differences between the Previous Database and the New One

The current database is probably the most extensive crypto database available on the market, covering about 6,900 coins and ICOs. That number is growing everyday.

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