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Progress by Arno

Big update on the project:

ThroneTax is now Amplitra. The product has grown beyond just a leaderboard, so the brand needed to catch up. Amplitra is becoming a broader Web3 discovery and attention platform combining: • crypto market data • paid Heat for visibility • community-earned Embers • Rank Power • project discovery + ownership I’ve also started implementing authentication with X and Google, which will eventually make things like claimed projects, owner dashboards, watchlists, notifications, and persistent user activity much cleaner. Still early, but the platform is starting to feel a lot more complete than the original ThroneTax MVP. Building it in public and iterating as I go.

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Progress by Ivan Golovach

I made grocery receipt corrections reusable—without making…

Grocery receipts are full of codes like GRNBN12OZ. One person can decode them once; the next person shouldn’t have to repeat the same work. In Radish 1.13, I added Community suggestions: • If someone corrects an item’s name or category and opts into sharing, Radish can submit that correction after the receipt is saved. • It sends the store and market, normalized printed code, corrected name and category, plus a one-way tag that prevents duplicate votes. No receipt photo, price, total, date, user ID, household ID, or Essential/Optional choice is sent. • A suggestion is published only after at least 10 matching confirmations and 90% agreement. • Radish downloads a signed dictionary for that specific store and market. The suggestion appears during Review, but never changes anything automatically—the user must tap “Use suggestion.” Reading Community suggestions is on by default. Sharing your own corrections is a separate opt-in and stays off until you enable it. The goal is simple: store abbreviations repeat constantly. A correction made once can save other people the same manual work, while everyone keeps control of their own receipt. I also shipped: • Cleaner Spending with month details that expand in place • Taxes and extra charges shown where they belong • Monthly PDF reports that are easier to find • Receipt summaries that stay visible while scrolling • Bulk deletion behind a twice-confirmed Danger Zone • “Email Ivan” in Settings • The removal of Weekly Summary The result: less repetitive receipt cleanup, clearer monthly spending, and safer controls.

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Progress by Uriel Bitton

I just shipped Buildside's biggest feature to date

Weekly challenges. Every week, founders can join the featured challenge and build away with 116 other founders. It's gonna be huge to have founders building rapidly and sharing their progress and showing images/videos of the challenge progress. Each week I'll have different challenges like: 🎮 build the coolest game you can 🧑‍💻 build a clone app 🏪 marketing challenges like the first to get 50 users, etc. Then the winner(s) would win prizes. It's gonna be epic - first challenge will launch tomorrow, make sure to sign up on Buildside (its free) !

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Progress by Vaibhav Gareja

Week 3 of building StoryMint 🚀

Another week of shipping, improving, and learning. The numbers so far: → 50+ signups → 40+ projects created → 700+ Google Search impressions → 200+ landing page visits What we shipped this week: → Reusable brand kits for consistent content → Better website imports for colors, fonts & logos → New light & dark gradient styles → Improved SEO & search landing pages → Easier project previews in the dashboard → Refreshed homepage with real Shotbase & Cursor carousels The goal is simple: make every carousel feel like one connected story. Still building. Still learning. One feedback at a time.

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Progress by Arno

Big weekend of shipping on ThroneTax.

The biggest change is that Embers are now live. ThroneTax originally ranked projects almost entirely around purchased Heat. I wanted communities to have a way to contribute without turning free engagement into something that could overpower paying projects. So now there are two separate signals: 🔥 Heat — purchased promotional power and still the dominant ranking signal. ✦ Embers — earned when shared ThroneTax links actually deliver qualified referred visits. Embers decay and their contribution to Rank Power is capped, so community activity can help a project without replacing paid promotion. I also shipped: • Rank Power • qualified referral tracking • Share & Earn Embers flows • active/lifetime Ember stats • Proof of Attention: impressions, visits, CTR and shares • community vs team paid-Heat attribution • live “Heat to pass” calculations • embeddable project rank badges that can generate referrals • project owner analytics and rank history • stronger project claiming/verification • canonical contract identity to prevent duplicate listings • a live Heat budget/ranking calculator The product is starting to move beyond “a leaderboard you pay to climb” into what I originally wanted it to become: a live market for crypto attention where money can buy exposure, but communities can create momentum too. Still early. Still building.

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Lesson by Kaoceam Consult

YOUR PRODUCT IS BUILT, BUT CAN IT GROW?

Your product is built. But can the right people find it, understand it, and choose it? Many startups don't struggle because they lack a good product. They struggle with what comes after building: Positioning it clearly. Communicating its value. Reaching the right audience. And turning attention into customers. That's what growth requires. At Buildside, we help startups and digital businesses grow through better positioning, communication, audience reach, and customer acquisition. Because building a product is only the beginning. The real challenge is getting it understood, discovered, and chosen. YOU BUILT IT. NOW LET'S HELP PEOPLE FIND, UNDERSTAND & CHOOSE IT.

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