The Interledger Community 🌱: Bruno Panuto

WMHub and DreamSquad

Bruno Panuto — Fri, 03 Sep 2021 01:06:59 +0000

I'm pleased to announce that DreamSquad is now using WMHub to manage their payment pointers in their website!

Since the beginning, DreamSquad has helped WMHub with software expertise, testing and just rubber ducking the bugs we found along the way. I'm happy to see a website out in the wild using and benefiting from Web Monetization without writing a single line of code! That has been WMHub's purpose all along :)

DreamSquad is a consulting company, offering top notch software development for a number of areas: backend, front-end, microservices, and more! The teams are based in Latin America, mainly Brazil. Go check them out if you have any aspirations of building or expanding a dedicated and distributed remote team!

WMHub — Grant Report #3

Bruno Panuto — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 15:31:27 +0000

And we're live! WMHub is fully operational and in production!

Project Update

After a lot of bugfixing, sweat and tears, WMHub as we envisioned is live! WMHub is a tool that allows you to setup Web Monetization in your project, without any coding knowledge required! Think of it like Google Analytics, but for Web Monetization.

Progress on objectives

Technology-wise, we hit almost every point. You're able to manage your projects, as well as receiving analytics details about money being transferred per project. We had a few other features in the roadmap, however, we felt that user feedback was going to be essential in order to prioritize what would be most useful.

Key activities

WMHub was always meant to be a tool that leverages Web Monetization, making it accessible to anyone. We have a full fledged suite of front-end, backend and databases in the cloud in order to make this work seamlessly.

We've also taken extra care with costs and scalability in mind. WMHub should be able to handle bursts of demand, while saving resources when idle by leveraging serverless and serverless-friendly tools.

Communications and marketing

We have designed a marketing roadmap, while also brainstorming a couple of niches that could leverage Web Monetization as means of income.

We're running Google Ads on two specific niches: blogs and podcasts. The idea is to see if there's a persona in these niches that is able and willing to use cutting edge technology to drive Web Monetization adoption further.

We've also contacted a few strategic partners in those areas in Brazil: influencers, podcasters and bloggers that have medium-sized audiences that will help us understand the needs of these niches or develop new, entire products. We'll be working with them closely to brainstorm and develop solutions based on WMHub/Web Monetization for their audiences. This is meant to be a long term activity, where we want to foster Web Monetization adoption through awesome products for the next couple of years.

You can see a initial version of these experiments targeting podcasts here and targeting blogs here.

We're tracking engagement in both of these segments, and will develop more original content for a blog of our own in the next few months as well.

What’s next?

We want Web Monetization to be for everyone. That's why we're starting separated experiments that leverage WMHub as a tool to help niche markets.

Podcasts and blogs are the first ones we've decided to tackle. Feedback from partners and users will shape how we move forward. One thing is certain: Web Monetization will be the core of it.

What community support would benefit your project?

If you're interested in setting up Web Monetization without having to code, have a look at WMHub! Feel free to contact me regarding any feedback you may have.

I'm also open to all forms of brainstorming of new ways Web Monetization can help niche markets, including taking a deeper look at the Interledger Protocol. If you're interested in this, let's have a chat!

Easy Web Monetization for all! — WMHub

Bruno Panuto — Mon, 08 Mar 2021 13:15:38 +0000

Project overview

Web Monetization is really good, if you're a software developer. For everyone else, it is a lot of work.

WMHub bridges that gap for all content creators. It lets you configure your personal project like you configure Google Analytics! No need to worry about the Web Monetization API or anything else.

Project team

Bruno Panuto - Lead backend developer
Andrezza Tavares - Marketing
Danilo Gusicuma - Design/Front-end developer
Andrey Torres - Backend developer

What we are doing

Finishing up the last touches on the platform for going live. Afterwards, we're going to try and find a niche for WMHub, following our marketing roadmap.

What community support would benefit your project?

If you're a content creator or just curious about our product, give it a go and contribute some feedback! We're eager to make a great product.

Link Round Up!

Our product home page

Highlight other projects

Shout out to Denisa and her study on effect of visibility on user behaviour.

WMHub — Grant Report #1

Bruno Panuto — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 15:16:52 +0000

Hi everyone! This is the very 1st progress report for WMHub!

I'm excited to share what the team has been up to so far, and what awaits us in the following months.

A quick refresh about the purpose of WMHub: it's a tool that helps content creators leverage Web Monetization for their content in a centralized place. It allows anyone, regardless of background or technical expertise, to leverage the Web Monetization ecosystem.

The new website

The new WMHub website is up on the web! Check it out!

The legacy application is in the process of being swapped out by a totally new application, with a more streamlined user experience.

Redesign and new architecture

Our main focus at the moment is the application revamp and new architecture.

The current application was built during the dev.to Grant For The Web Hackathon, which served well as a prototype. Going forward, we need a new architecture that allows for a faster product iteration, so that WMHub can keep up with Web Monetization's fast moving ecosystem.

This new architecture will leverage AWS cloud services for an integrated development and deployment experience.

The tasks for this are planned and we expect the new WMHub app to be publicly accessible by mid February!

Marketing roadmap

We've defined a marketing roadmap for WMHub. There's activities planned for the next months focusing on developing and growing WMHub as a business.

Expect more details about our public communication soon.

The Team

WMHub is built by people. Here are some of them:

Gabrielle Telman awesomelly led the bootstrap of the new React front-end for WMHub. Going forward, Danilo Miranda is going to handle all the new UI redesigns and front-end engineering.

Andrey Torres is helping me design and build the backend services for WMHub, leveraging the AWS cloud.

Andrezza Tavares is the mastermind behind the marketing strategies.

What’s next?

We'll build and put into production a Web Monetization experience that, hopefully, will allow the adoption of Web Monetization to a wider audience of content creators.

Not only that, but we are also growing WMHub as a business. This means putting WMHub into the hands of real customers and parterns, paying careful attention to feedback, basing everything we do in data, and having solid engineering principles.

The community

WMHub is supposed to be a tool that integrates the Web Monetization ecosystem in ways that I haven't even thinked about yet. We're adopting an API First strategy that will allow us to integrate not only our own products, but other partners as well.

I would be more than thrilled to connect with any of the projects for a partnership. If this piqued your interest, feel free to reach out!