Memex.Social - Grant Report #1 December 1st 2021

Hey folks.
I wanted to give you an update on our progress since we got the grant funding.

Stats

• Free Users: ~15.000
  • We lost about 3k users when we deprecated the history search (after initial application)
  • Regained them through tighter product focus, better user research and small, impactful workflow improvements (see below)
• Paying Users: ~550
• Beta users for sharing features: 800

Quick video summary:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDczppkEzRQ

Feature Updates

In the last few months main focus was smaller but impactful UX improvements to the annotation experience & thorough planning of the sharing and following features.

1. Replying to annotation threads in the web interface: https://memex.social/c/oiLz5UIXw9JXermqZmXW
2. Youtube Annotations: https://twitter.com/BlackForestBoi/status/1328671050947850241
3. Markdown Editor: https://twitter.com/worldbrain/status/1322977197666324491
4. Readwise/Roam/Notion/Evernote Integration: https://twitter.com/BlackForestBoi/status/1317016935960367104
5. Inbox for saved items: https://twitter.com/BlackForestBoi/status/1317120202077802497

Next Steps

1. Launching the notification center to inform people about replies to their own annotations. Needed to fully launch the feature to reply to annotations via the web interface.
2. MVP for following collections and see other people's annotations in context (Mockup demo in the video above). Development start: next week.
3. User profiles with WebMonetization endpoint

Will keep you updated here.
Thanks again so much for enabling our journey to build this.