“We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” - TS Eliot
It has been an incredible seven weeks of exploration and fulfillment at Po.et. Since I joined in late February, I’ve seen our roadmap execute, our community grow, our industry presence develop and our team grow 400%. This truly feels like the Gutenberg Era, and our accelerated growth and development will render results faster and more efficiently than ever.
Last week, Wordpress accepted Frost and officially has it in its plugin options (
https://wordpress.org/plugins/po-et/). Huge congratulations to Lautaro, the team and the community for making this happen. As Eric Elliott mentioned in his blog post, the plugin enables up to 30% of all websites the option to post all of their content to the platform. This is a giant step for Po.et as we open the opportunity for all creators to own their ideas on a major CMS.
We also officially surpassed 8,000 members on Telegram. With more than 30,000 on Twitter, 11,000 on Reddit and many across the other platforms, the Po.et community is growing well beyond 50,000 strong on social media. And the amazing part about it is that our community is active. Active on the platforms, active in conversations and active with feedback on our progress and development. Together, with your help and commitment, we will see this community grow to one of the largest, most participatory groups in no time. We are also expanding our community coverage. For the Chinese speaking Po.et community, please join our WeChat (scan below). We are also currently setting up support for Korea and other countries as the demand comes in.
We spend a lot of time spreading the vision for Po.et across the globe. Last week, we were present at Deconomy in Seoul. We had a booth and did various interviews with media companies across Korea to talk about our progress, growth and vision. We received some great coverage (coming soon) and transcended beyond Korea to Chinese business coverage as well (
https://www.huxiu.com/article/239395.html). This week, we’re in Vancouver with our partners at Maven, where I’ll be speaking at their inaugural conference with BTC CEO David Bailey (
https://www.themaven.net/events/coalition-2018/advertising-and-publishing-industry-leaders-added-as-speakers-B2oNtVXC2U-XNR5seSvuFA/). As you know, Maven just announced a partnership with Say Media, meaning Po.et’s relationship with the team just got a lot larger (90 million UVs!). Friday, I’ll be attending ISOJ, one of the largest journalism conferences, to talk about AI, Blockchain and other emerging technologies in journalism with some of the smartest people in the space (
https://isoj.org/isoj-panelists-will-dig-deep-into-journalists-use-of-tech-tools-such-as-ai-ar-blockchain-and-machine-learning/). As you can see, we’re making our footprint across many industries, in many countries around the globe.
Our VP of Engineering, Eric Elliott, published a note on our roadmap yesterday (
https://blog.po.et/the-po-et-roadmap-more-value-faster-3dcf339f771f). I encourage you all to read it. It focuses on our timelines, our development style and our commitment to the core objectives. Po.et is scaling, and in order to do that in a highly operable way, we need to expand and strengthen our engineering. In just one week, Eric has recruited top talent to triple our current engineering staff. Updates to come soon, but we’ll now be able to move faster, offer better support and focus on scale and more product features. It’s a golden age for Po.et, and our commitment to the best engineering to enable our partners and community will bring out the best in our platform.
As always, our community is hard at work! Big thanks to community member Joshua Reinhardt who created an Elixir (@elixirlang) wrapper for our Frost API. Check it out!
https://buff.ly/2qjtaxj Let’s build!
JD
