One thing that I did not anticipate, is how hard it has been to bait you all into criticizing me. It's like you all "like me" or something 😍. I had expected at least a few "shove off"s, but no - nothing of the sort!
But still I can tell you want to! Friends for a long time, don't respond.
Accept my friend request - leave me ghosted! I want your criticism :)
Let's go through them again:
I don't understand = Explain it like I'm 5
Too vague - Get specific
Too wide
We dont need beem - We're doing it anyway
Too quick (voting)
Too tight (payout)
Remove Travel
Remove hive power
Should be done by one dev and raspberry pi rejected
New Feedback - Are you aware we already have Frontends?
Now that I have been specific, we get a new class of criticism. I'm ready for it - here we go! "I don't like a specific thing about what you are doing". I will need to make sub-lists for these.
We chose 4 champions, which I think can stand on their own. Number 4 is the beemhive-nectar stuff, so mostly I think that has been validated - asked and answered.
Yesterday I reached out to @ura-soul again (, again). Poor guy, he has to put up with me extra because lots of you are too (insert the thing you are here, busy, uncertain, fence sitting), so I have to go back to this kind soul who would just like to rest his eyes.
But he gave me some great feedback -
Isn't this repeat work?
And of course not! Its so obvious to me - but that's why I can't see it. That's why I need the feedback
In the case of FiscalForge - he asked if we were repeating work from Keychain Store, Distriator or SpendHBD, or even HiveDebit. Frankly I think some or all of these apps will use our FiscalForge, and I use or plan to use all of these things; in the case of Keychain, exclusively and extensively integrated into the things we are building and already have built.
I onboarded @jthomasewsky - He's going to give me a HiveDebit card for Ecobank in Talent Land Guadalajara. We are friends.
And of course - this brings up a lot of tutorials and maybe even branding work that HAF "apps" will need, because I'm pretty sure people are thinking they are going to download it on their phone. But no, if you read carefully (I'm sorry - what else can I do but type more?), you will see - FiscalForge doesn't even include a front-end!
It's an API and yeah most projects would probably build a front end and "make their mark", but it is specifically because I see all these use cases - that we decided that a HAF app would be just the thing to bring it all together.
In order to explain HAF app more, I will get @blocktrades on for a technical discussion about it.
Immediately after the comment, I reached out to @mengao , an amazing developer of the SkateHive community front-end, and we started working through my inability to articulate (yet!) the distinctions between what I am doing and "all the other front-ends, including the open source ones".
But that is the next post.
Without this rapid stressful period, it would have taken me months or maybe years to figure out how to say all this stuff in ways people understand.
Do you get it now?
I NEED YOUR FEEDBACK
Simple Vision
4 specific Champion Modules
and if you like -