Product Development Update; July

A month has passed since our last business development update was published and since there has been a lot of improvements and implementations made to the platform, we felt the need to give you, our supporters a brand new preview into what is happening behind closed doors. We know many of you are patiently (and some quite anxiously) waiting to see our progress on the platform development so without further ado, here in front of you is a quick recap of our main activities. Enjoy!

Front-end fine-tuning

Last month, we have shared some screenshots of how the future VouchForMe user interface will look like. Our front-end developers are currently making the final text corrections and other visual content. The main goal is to chase all remaining Lorem-ipsum-kind-of-wording to make space for the carefully crafted copy texts that have been put together by our product and marketing gurus.

Behind the scenes work

Meanwhile, our backend engineers are working hard to implement all the functions that are needed for the user interface to really spring to life and operate reliably. Special attention is given to localization, i.e., making sure that individual VouchForMe implementations in various regions share the same infrastructure while appearing local in terms of language, time format, currency, etc. The goal is to ensure that minimal effort is going to be required by the tech team to add individual local instances in the future — with each of them still getting the exact touch and feel its local users expect.

Smart contract implementation

Blockchain software development is also well underway. Our tech team admits that the initial planning for the Blockchain part of VouchForMe platform was quite challenging since technology around it, is still in its beginnings. So consequently, many engineering decisions we had to make were not so simple and obvious, for example one of those decisions was, if we want the nature of the Blockchain network to be private or public, since we had to contemplate between transparency and privacy of user data. And this was something that was needed to be resolved, before the first line of code could be written.

Besides everything, we are happy to confirm that the first version of the smart contract is finished and that the team will begin implementing data encryption features and interfaces for communication with the VouchForMe back-end.