Steem Passport is a new project that aims to improve the signup process for new accounts in the Steem eco-system. We aim to solve all outstanding challenges faced by Steem when it comes to quickly and easily enabling new users to access Steem and to start using Steem powered sites!
Hey! @ura-soul here - Welcome to a brief introduction to the project I have been working on behind the scenes for a couple of months during my spare time. I've included a video here for you at the end of this post to give an overview of some of the details of @steempassport - check it out if you want to learn more details.
I had the idea that we really need to improve the signup process for new users on the Steem blockchain. I have only ever had difficulties when attempting to use the Steemit.com signup process and many users give up after waiting for weeks, only to find they never receive an account at all (or any explanation as to why not). Since Steemit inc. agrees to the value of decentralising Steem more and since we, the community, have an investment and interest in that happening too - I decided to take the bull by the horns and research ways that the community might best be able to manage the onboarding process professionally and reliably.
After speaking with many people, including witnesses and dApp operators, I have put together a list of objectives that this project aims to complete as soon as possible. Initially I intended to tackle marketing and user education on top of the technical features that are missing from Steem's current signup options, but since we now have @steemonboarding handling these issues, I have slimmed down Steem Passport to focus more closely on the technical side of things.
The very short version is that we will be creating software to facilitate account creation using an account incubation strategy that means that new users can have accounts created that cost them nothing but which also have minimal risk for the blockchain and for dApp operators too. A generic incubation process is being designed currently that all dApps will be able to use and which will simultaneously also help new users to get started on Steem.
We are also looking at creating software to manage the account recovery process and also other ways to create new accounts efficiently - though incubation is the highest priority since no such system currently exists for Steem that we know of.
So far we have had offers of support from @promo-steem and @oracle-d and we are definitely looking for any dApp creators and other groups who want to help out with coding and support in whatever ways they choose to offer.
More Information
I created an initial project overview, including some early research and background information - it's on HackMD, here - (You need to log in to HackMD to read it). This answers many common questions about this project, however, I am working on a more up to date document currently to specify the specific software requirements for the project and aim to have that online before xmas.
We currently have a few interested people congregating in our Discord server - so if you have any questions after watching the video and reading through the document, then you are welcome to come and ask me / us in there. :)
Also, we are very much open to any delegations that anyone may wish to provide us to help pay for the costs involved in the development process. In the longer term we aim to provide returns to delegators who sponsor the project - possibly being generated through curation payouts as we will be helping to upvote the best new users to get them started. Other options also exist for return on investment that will be described in more depth in later updates.
For now, here's my first video update on this project - injoy!
Wishing you well,
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I´m very glad to read the announcement of this project. We had already spoken about it and this is definitely tackling one of the biggest issues surrounding the mass onboarding obstacles. I hope we can work together and I expect many projects and Steemians supporting the @steempassport project. Let´s reach mass adoption together!
Excellent! Thanks for your hard work and focus. I am excited to see where we can take our shared vision. :)
This is really cool. I've been doing a lot of onboarding lately. I'm trying to get instagram influencers interested in our ecosystem using @share2steem . This would make it soooo much easier. Right now I'm using @bloctrades to get accounts started for people.
I have a dozen claimed account if you need manual onbording. You could find me at dicourd from main topic, or br0nevik at telegram
Thanks for your work.
Ok, I'll be testing @share2steem myself here soon too - if you have any feedback on the onboarding process in general then do let us know your thoughts and experiences. Cheers!
I certainly will
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Nice project, good luck
Fantastic work! You have taken the ideas circling around SteemFest and put them into a proper project. Let us all unite to make this thing a reality. Please keep us posted, so we can find the right way to support you.
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Thanks! I had already done the work on the document before Steemfest, but then updated the plan to include account incubation - which is a great idea that was presented by a few different people at Steemfest. So now I am working on the software specification documents and, yes, we should see this turn into a usable system relatively soon. :)
Looks like you put a lot of thought into this. I look forward to hearing more. Do you have an expected timeline yet? Or still working through preliminary planning?
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This is still being planned and the software specified - I expect to be in a position to put together some kind of roadmap once we know more about the amount of work needed and the support available. If we only focus on making an incubation system for new users then it is likely we can get something up and running after several weeks of work - but at this point it's hard to be more accurate.
Yhus sounds crazy cool! i wanna dive in!!
Awesome project and video. I'm looking forward to more updates!
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Great thinking! Signup is very big obstacle for getting new users.
Did you think about posting videos on DTube instead of YT?
Thanks! I do use DTube as a first option, but lately I have found that I wait for hours to upload the video and then it is just not saved by the DTube uploader. Due to that and since I need this video to be retained online for more than 30 days, I used Pootube ;)
Sounds like DTube needs some competition. :)
This is a great idea. I would totally use something like this for StemQ.
Keep up the good work.
Great, thankyou!
Tremendous work ♥ keep it up
Best of luck!
Thanks!
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