2017 Roadmap

Introduction:

Thank you for taking the time to review our 2017 Roadmap. This document is composed of three sections, one each for Steemit, Inc: the organization, steemit.com: the social media application, and the decentralized Steem Blockchain and Platform.

Note well that this document does not include a complete view of the functionality that we will eventually implement: some smaller features not included here we will ship in 2017, and many important things we will tackle only after these major initiatives are complete, in 2017 or beyond. This document outlines only those we have identified as the most pressing in the short term.

One thing that may seem missing from this document is our communications plan for serving the existing social community—we haven’t forgotten about you! This document is not all-encompassing and we are currently evaluating various plans for establishing a dedicated team to manage and improve external communication, both with the existing steemit.com user community as well as the wider world of blockchain and liberty enthusiasts. Stay tuned!

We have a ton of huge plans for the platform and steemit.com (far more than can fit into one document!), and are tremendously excited to share this first set with our amazing community.

Goals

Our long-term goal remains the same: to provide the best platform for censorship-resistant publishing and store of value to the widest user base possible, in an effort to increase human freedom and accelerate the spread of access to basic rights for all people on Earth.

In doing so, by growing the Steem Blockchain, we will have created a permissionless, censorship-resistant data layer for the entire Internet. The first obvious application is publishing, but the possibilities for applications on the platform are limitless. Vastly expanding this community has the notable side-effect of placing STEEM in the forefront as the ultimate blockchain-based currency.

Our primary short-term goal is to drastically increase the number of weekly signups, weekly active users, and weekly social interaction events on steemit.com. It is our belief that in our attention economy, more readers, reading more writers, performing more interactions is the single best way to develop the overall value of and to the community, and thus the Steem
Blockchain and its economy and token.

Simultaneously with user growth, it is essential that we provide support and resources to entrepreneurs and developers building upon the Steem Blockchain as a platform. We recognize that steemit.com will be only one of many killer apps built upon the Steem Blockchain, and it is our goal to empower as many as possible who wish to build upon our platform and incredible community.

To this end we have established a set of priorities for the near future upon which to focus our efforts.

Summary

This document exists for you: the user: the entrepreneur, the developer, the writer, the reader. We understand the challenges you face, and want to provide a predictably moving target for our ecosystem so that we can grow together.

It includes our organizational plan for Steemit, the company, and how we work. It partially specifies the social features and functionality we will implement presently for steemit.com, the social application. Finally, it dives into the underlying blockchain technology we will design and implement to support the use and scaling of the network far into the future.

TL;DR. (Roadmap Overview)

1: steemit.com

• Migrating all services to auto-scaling, self-healing infrastructure.

• Useful blockchain data microservices for both internal and external developers to accelerate application development.

• “Batteries Included”: Highly available public service endpoints for third-party developer quickstart.

• An Ethos of Deliberate, Reasoned Design

• Steem Login and signing service for safe and easy third-party app integrations.

• Rebranding: new logo, colors, logotype to distinguish the social app from the blockchain.

• UI: Design language overhaul for all user-facing application UIs.

• Apps: We’re developing iOS and Android native mobile applications.

• Feature: Free image hosting.

• Feature: Comment moderation for post authors.

• Feature: Community Namespaces and Moderation.

• Feature: New user tutorial.

• Feature: Achievements and User Insignia.

• Feature: Mobile notifications.

• Feature: Easy-to-understand status bar.

2: Steem Blockchain

• steem.io: A platform dashboard view into the current state of the Steem Blockchain.

• developer.steem.io: World-class developer documentation for rapidly building Steem Blockchain apps.

• Officially supported client libraries for JavaScript and Python.

• Feature: Greatly reduced blockchain account creation costs, minus the spam.

• Feature: Arbitrary splitting of post rewards, for revenue splitting.

• Scalability: The future is parallel.

3: Steemit, Inc.

• Physical Decentralization: a global team headquartered on the Internet.

• Internet-speed internal team communications.

• Automatic tests and builds for all code, with easy one-command deployments to reduce latency to production for completed features, allowing developers to focus on development.

• We’re hiring the best talent globally.

• We plan to decentralize the @steemit account stake.

• All of our software will remain free (as in freedom) software.

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