Month in Review - May 2023

Hello BULBers,

It’s Month in Review Time! 

May 2023 has been a month of listening, brainstorming and developing. 

Just one month following our official launch, we have been hearing amazing things from the community about how much they like the new features recently added to the platform including dark mode, writing analytics and the revamped refer-to-earn system. Let us know in the comments which is your favourite?

At the same time, we are also listening to the fantastic pieces of feedback and suggestions from the BULB community on how to keep making BULB the best Web 3.0 blogging platform out there. Thank you!

There’s a lot of unpack behind the scenes… let’s get into it! 

First BULB Team In-Person Meetup

BULB Team - Alex, Vivian, Ronson, Johnson and Oliver (Left to Right)

Yes, you read that correctly. BULB was actually built from the ground up in a completely virtual environment from three corners of the world, Australia, United States and Hong Kong. Just this month, 5 of the 7 core BULB members met up in Sydney for the first time as a group to discuss BULB’s strategy and the road forward. 

Before our discussions, we conducted a series of interviews with prominent BULBers within the community to get some feedback and learn more about how we fulfil our mission to create a community where ideas, passions and engagement are all rewarded. The most consistent themes were:

• How BULB can help create the best experience for users to write and read?
• How can Web3 move from the desktop to the mobile?
• How can community members interact with each other, more frequently and with more people. 

Amongst many other things, the team discussed and agreed upon three key ideas that stemmed from these themes and we are excited to share these with you all.

1) We will be building a BULB AI tool which will act as a co-pilot for writers and readers on the platform to create an amazing user experience
2) BULB is going mobile, with a clear development plan to bring you an enhanced on-the-go BULB experience
3) A detailed roadmap to improve virality and grow the community.

An announcement will come soon on what the exact feature roadmap looks like from here, but you can bet all your BULB Tokens that it’s going to be good…

The Community

BULB’s User Base is Growing at ~10% Every Month

The word is really starting to get out there and we are fast approaching the 2,000 user mark. More and more, we are seeing community members spreading the word about BULB on social media, particularly on Twitter. Check out this tweet from @MiguelNorberto_ for example… and there are many more tweets and shares just like this!

Let’s keep up that energy BULBers, thank you! 💪

Upcoming Features Sneak Peak

The most immediate features to be released in June 2023 will be:

• Increased Wallet Support: We will soon be integrating both Solflare and Coinbase wallet connectivity on BULB.

• Weekly Community Objectives: What's better than supporting your fellow BULBers? If they lead to the completion of objectives! Soon, we will be releasing weekly challenges and objectives for users to further gamify UX and allow you to earn bonus BULB points for simply writing, reading, reacting, commenting and sharing as you normally would.

• Finally, the game changer...BULB AI. In a nutshell, BULB AI will be your personal AI assistant on BULB to help you write better content, suggest SEO optimised titles and descriptions, provide readers with additional context on complex concepts, and most excitingly, transform your content into multiple different media formats for consumption. We will leave it there for now but a more detailed feature roadmap post will be announced in the coming months. 

We Need Your Help

We are currently to improve our mobile web experience and we could use your help! Let us know in the comments below what are some of the areas about the mobile web app that you feel like could be improved upon?

When the community speaks, we listen. So, if you have a good idea or suggestions to make BULB a better place, let us know.

That’s all for May! Thanks again for your support this month and we are looking forward to what’s to come in June.

-BULB Team