Roadmap to “Heroes”
In “Pay Your Heroes” I identified a blog post about Gratipay that I want to be able to publish. It’s a biggie! We can’t wait for that to be our next blog post. What blog posts do we want to publish in the mean time, on the way there?
We already published a blog post about our name change. That’s actually our most recent post, almost two months ago! That was obviously a huge piece of work, and a bit of a special case in terms of the relationship of our announcement to the work itself: more work than usual came after the announcement. We are so, so close to actually closing the ticket! Closing the ticket will be the conclusion of that post, so to speak.
Then we’ve got internationalization. We’ve got a good chunk of the work done: the site is more or less translated into Korean, Chinese, and French. We need to implement Transifex, and then we can write a post that says, “The site is internationalized, we have a few translations, here’s how to help with translations, and yes we know we need multicurrency and international payouts but that’s a lot harder.”
We’ve added Facebook and Google+ support but haven’t blogged about it. I think we have everything we need to write that post. What’s the pledging experience like for Facebook and Google+? How do I pledge to someone on one of those platforms? It’d be great to drop Bitbucket so we can batch that in as well.
At that point we’ll have cleared out current work in the pipeline (work isn’t done until we blog about it!), and then we can start making progress on Pay Your Heroes. Here are the posts we need to write along the way:
- “You can now register for Gratipay using email.” We have a milestone and we’ve started on verification.
- “You can now search your friends on Gratipay.”
- “We now automatically invite people to Gratipay for you.”
I think we also need these pieces that aren’t in the flow itself but are things we want before we really start a big marketing campaign to find many, many new users, which is what Pay Your Heroes is really about:
- “We’ve redesigned Gratipay profiles.”
- “We’ve redesigned how you manage your payments on Gratipay.” I’m thinking this is where we would include friend browsing.
- “Gratipay now sends weekly email reports.”
How’s that for a roadmap?
