Introducing the Cardstack Membership System: In this article, we give our community an overview of all the different badges that members will be able to acquire in the Cardstack network. There are numerous ways to participate in growing the ecosystem and earn corresponding rewards—whether it is as a Card Stacker, Card Maker, or Card Member.
https://medium.com/cardstack/the-cardstack-membership-system-a6b55731b81b
Get ready to meet the Cardstack Workflow!
What would you prefer: 10 tools for 1 workflow—or 1 tool for 10 workflows?
Currently, people need many different tools to accomplish their work. One app for messaging, one for document sharing, another one for task management, a separate one for transactions… The list goes on and on. Each tool is from a different SaaS company, requires its own login, and is a silo that doesn’t interact with any of the other tools. Put simply: It’s a pain. Getting work done is much harder than it should be.
That is why we have been working hard to create a powerful workflow system to end the chaos. Essentially, the Cardstack Workflow puts cards in motion, enabling users to act on those cards and exchange them between each other easily—all within one system that can be extended for individual needs.
Users will no longer have to split up their work into 10 different apps, all of which do different things and don’t talk to each other. Instead, they can do all their work in one place, managing their multi-layered and multi-faceted workflows with one multi-functional tool.
In the past few weeks and months, we improved the visual & motion design of the Cardstack Workflow, aligning this multi-party workflow system with the look & feel of our Boxel Design System, so as to offer users an exciting, seamless, and composable experience.
In the next couple of weeks, we will introduce you to the various concepts that we have combined to make this system truly special, using the example of an Ebook Editing workflow.
All in one: Chat, Email & Tasks
Don’t you love Slack and Telegram? They let you chat. You can have real-time conversations with your friends, colleagues, partners, or clients—exchanging messages and emojis to your heart’s content. But that’s it.
Don’t you love email? You can send files. And your inbox tells you at a glance which emails are new, which ones are important, and which ones you don’t have to worry about right now. But that’s it.
Don’t you love Asana and Trello? They give you tasks. You can check off the items on your to do list, while keeping track of your progress on different projects. But that’s it.
Granted, those are great apps. They’re good at what they do. The problem is, the thing they do is all they do. Your emails don’t convert themselves into tasks. You chats don’t sort themselves into categories. Your tasks don’t have live chats attached.
So what if there were a tool that gave you the benefits of chat, email, and tasks combined? A well-organized, straightforward, real-time workflow system, where you can send messages and attachments between multiple participants or organizations, while simultaneously completing all related tasks?
All features in one tool: The Cardstack Workflow!
Let’s talk about the Queue
Your email inbox is great. It helps you prioritize, as it sorts your emails into categories. But does it tell you when there’s something that you need to do? Not so much.
Your Cardstack Workflow queue not only sorts your messages and gives you informative previews—it actually tells you if there is a task for you inside a thread, or that you’re blocking an entire workflow.
Take these categories, for example:
Unread: “There’s a new message in this thread. Read it!”
Need Response: “We’re waiting for you to take an action. Go click that button already!”
Recent Activity: “Nothing for you to do right now. Feel free to take a nap.”
If you expand your queue, you get a full-screen view with even more categories, where you can put messages that annoy you or the ones that are no longer relevant.
Your queue is also searchable. And you can have a separate queue that’s shared among your team.
But most importantly, it’s the place where you click on a queue item to open a thread. In our example, let’s open the thread of an Ebook Editing workflow.
=> more on threads coming up
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Topic: [ANN][ICO]Cardstack: The Experience Layer of the Blockchain + Tally Protocol - page 20. (Read 48233 times)
August 13, 2020, 12:49:25 PM
August 10, 2020, 07:24:32 PM
Can you check this? Is this contract address correct? https://uniswap.info/pair/0x6cd7301d8366382198e2ab7d3cc4c6a74f3b4fc8
I am waiting to offical listing. I'm not sure if this address is reliable.
I am waiting to offical listing. I'm not sure if this address is reliable.
March 19, 2020, 01:05:12 PM
Cardstack is one of the projects (less then 100) in the blockchain space that had a fully mapped vision for what they wanted to build, to take advantage of the various cryptographic primatives that have recently emerged. They have a tried and true approach to marketing that will serve investors and community members in the long run; build first, then market what's been built. Let the product set the tone. Then we will see the type of marketing that really works, where the products value is driving communications.
To do that, they needed to build the product first. They were incredibly clear about this sequence of events from the get go.
The blockchain space is full of empty marketing just desperately trying to be relevant, but it mostly falls flat.
Now that the card builder and Folio testnet are live, the marketing and community development can begin atop the actual product.
As for their reputation in the developer space, Cardstack is one of the most respected code bases, with Gitcoin using some of the folio code for Vitalik's Quadratic Voting public goods grants.
I'm thinking about including Cardstack in one of the workshops I'm hosting at ETH Denver this weekend and I'm sure there will be a lot of opportunities to show off the platform in the coming weeks.
To do that, they needed to build the product first. They were incredibly clear about this sequence of events from the get go.
The blockchain space is full of empty marketing just desperately trying to be relevant, but it mostly falls flat.
Now that the card builder and Folio testnet are live, the marketing and community development can begin atop the actual product.
As for their reputation in the developer space, Cardstack is one of the most respected code bases, with Gitcoin using some of the folio code for Vitalik's Quadratic Voting public goods grants.
I'm thinking about including Cardstack in one of the workshops I'm hosting at ETH Denver this weekend and I'm sure there will be a lot of opportunities to show off the platform in the coming weeks.
Cardstack has always believed that a successful economic network, backed by crypto primitives, needs to generate top-line revenue, which means people paying real money for real services for real utility. That's why we focus on a product that is geared towards users, buyers, and customers, because customer cash is king—especially in the time we are in today. If customers are willing to pay for Cardstack-based apps because Cardstack provides a great selection of features (produced by open-source developers and designers) at a great price, hosted by competent service providers who know how to manage cloud expenses and provide customer support, then there will be many opportunities for distributing rewards to the people who add the most to the platform. This will give people incentives to join, to build, to stake, to vote, and to hodl.
Thank you very much for your support! 2020 is a year of launches for us. We have launched the new schema system (https://medium.com/cardstack/milestone-reached-the-new-cardstack-hub-23fff7e64eb2) and just posted a sneak peek of the Cardstack Builder application (https://youtu.be/WjylQ7Emgwc), which is part of a series—more will be published in the coming weeks.
We’re giving you an early sneak peek into the Cardstack Builder with its GitHub integration!
In the latest installment of our developer series, Jen Weber shows you how the Cardstack Builder and GitHub work together as you build your own cards, with the code being generated for you automatically and your work being stored in your own GitHub repo. https://youtu.be/WjylQ7Emgwc
Developers, listen up: Here comes Dev Mode!
In the latest video of our developer series, we show you how to run the Cardstack Builder locally and how to create cards—both within the UI and within the code editor. https://youtu.be/JEHgZ_yOM7E
Can we reboot society? That’s the question Chris Tse poses in his blog post, where he looks at the current crisis through the lens of human psychology, surmising what comes after—what will change significantly and what’s likely to stay the same?
https://medium.com/cardstack/rebooting-the-world-after-the-covid-19-shutdown-3c53c989e499
We have completed the internal beta version of the Cardstack Builder! This demo gives you a walkthrough of the different steps and modes to build cards using our card building tool.
Next, we are working on the GitHub integration, so developers can start playing around with the builder on Card.Space soon. Stay tuned for Dev Mode!
https://youtu.be/1n4apuT-JPk
Chris Tse spoke at Consensus: Distributed last Friday.
The topic: “Building Blocks for the New Creative Economy.” In case you missed it, you can rewatch Chris’ presentation in this short video we put together for you:
https://youtu.be/zhdjpwbeiOA
PS: Stay tuned for a longer version of his talk, which will be published soon.
Cardstack's Founding Director Chris Tse spoke at "Consensus: Distributed" last week, about the “Building Blocks for the New Creative Economy”—if you’d like to hear more about this topic, check out the longer version of his talk on our YouTube channel:
https://youtu.be/TO0CsjbZXXc
This blog post is based on Chris Tse’s talk about the “Building Blocks for the New Creative Economy”. Learn all about the current state of the content distribution network, the role blockchain could play in the creative industry, and how Cardstack combines content with monetization in powerful building blocks for the world’s creators.
https://medium.com/cardstack/composable-monetization-techniques-for-creative-content-e90946ce78d3
Here’s Chris Tse’s latest talk about the history of software distribution. He speaks about how software evolved from a product (SaaP) into a quote (SaaQ), a resource (SaaR), and finally a service (SaaS) between 1995 and 2020. Finally, it will become a tool (SaaT) that empowers both coders and non-coders, by combining off-the-shelf software with the individuality of customization.
https://youtu.be/UrnYKgTl184
Want to learn more about the history of software? This article dives deeper into software as a product, quote, resource, service, and tool (including the business model behind SaaT), while being less tech-focused than Chris’ talk about “The Evolution of Software Distribution”.
https://medium.com/cardstack/software-through-the-ages-7ae7b3debfd7
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March 17, 2020, 02:11:31 PM
Cardstack is one of the projects (less then 100) in the blockchain space that had a fully mapped vision for what they wanted to build, to take advantage of the various cryptographic primatives that have recently emerged. They have a tried and true approach to marketing that will serve investors and community members in the long run; build first, then market what's been built. Let the product set the tone. Then we will see the type of marketing that really works, where the products value is driving communications.
To do that, they needed to build the product first. They were incredibly clear about this sequence of events from the get go.
The blockchain space is full of empty marketing just desperately trying to be relevant, but it mostly falls flat.
Now that the card builder and Folio testnet are live, the marketing and community development can begin atop the actual product.
As for their reputation in the developer space, Cardstack is one of the most respected code bases, with Gitcoin using some of the folio code for Vitalik's Quadratic Voting public goods grants.
I'm thinking about including Cardstack in one of the workshops I'm hosting at ETH Denver this weekend and I'm sure there will be a lot of opportunities to show off the platform in the coming weeks.
To do that, they needed to build the product first. They were incredibly clear about this sequence of events from the get go.
The blockchain space is full of empty marketing just desperately trying to be relevant, but it mostly falls flat.
Now that the card builder and Folio testnet are live, the marketing and community development can begin atop the actual product.
As for their reputation in the developer space, Cardstack is one of the most respected code bases, with Gitcoin using some of the folio code for Vitalik's Quadratic Voting public goods grants.
I'm thinking about including Cardstack in one of the workshops I'm hosting at ETH Denver this weekend and I'm sure there will be a lot of opportunities to show off the platform in the coming weeks.
February 18, 2020, 07:05:14 AM
Mix & match features to build your no-code workflow!
“Choose from a library of prebuilt templates. Adjust and combine them to create your very own apps, which help you manage your projects, sync your tasks, and grow your business.”
The new Cardstack website presents the powerful tools we offer users—like a form creator, access control, white-label support, and interactive messaging, as well as task synchronization (based on our Gitchain technology) and automation (e.g. to generate invoices and multi-currency payments).
https://cardstack.com/
Working together to break the status quo
“Users, designers, developers, and service providers cooperate to create the shared software catalog for the next decade.”
The new Cardstack website visualizes the competitive focus of the last decade, which led to application silos that required multiple logins from users. The next decade will be all about cooperation across individuals, businesses, and industries instead—as all network participants will be connected through an open and fair protocol.
https://cardstack.com/
Build it on your own
“The Cardstack Builder brings the fun (and profit) of building software to non-coders, which is 99.9% of humanity!”
The new Cardstack website gives you a sneak preview of our user-friendly app building tool, which allows users to assemble, configure, style, and publish their own apps without writing any code.
If you would like to learn more about the Cardstack Builder, check out this blog post: https://medium.com/cardstack/the-ultimate-card-building-tool-25c442e22bed
https://cardstack.com/
Design it to fit your needs
“Do it in style. Create templates and themes for others to choose from, while you grow your client base with custom and premium themes.”
The new Cardstack website conveys the relationship between designers and users—as users get to choose from a shared catalog of themes, which are created by designers, who in turn get paid for their work based on usage.
https://cardstack.com/
Code it to do more
“Most SaaS products are proprietary, so one company owns your data. Because Cardstack is open source, you own not only your data, but your customized software too.”
The new Cardstack website gives you an overview of the benefits Cardstack offers developers—being open source, fully documented, and (due to the underlying CARD Protocol) profitable too! Plus, there’s a detailed list telling you which skills you need to extend Cardstack yourself via UI customization, feature enhancements, or system integration.
https://cardstack.com/
Host it anywhere you want
“Similarly to other open-sourced software like WordPress, users can choose any hosting provider to manage and run their Cardstack-based app for them. A large number of hosting providers in the Cardstack ecosystem will ensure that users from around the world get tailored services that fit their budget and requirements.”
The new Cardstack website introduces the first hosting provider of the Cardstack ecosystem—Card.Space—and tells you how your company can join the Cardstack membership network. Service providers will benefit from a global software catalog, unified billing & payments, cross-honored memberships, and a token-curated registry.
https://cardstack.com/
The Cardstack Mission: “We are building the alternative to centralized SaaS apps that lock users into the platforms of Silicon Valley’s tech giants.”
The new Cardstack website reflects our mission to jumpstart Web 3.0—by offering connections without intermediaries between individuals and organizations through a three-part approach: Open Source, Open Marketplace, Open Protocol
https://cardstack.com/
The tech stack beneath Cardstack
The new Cardstack website gives you a detailed overview of the Cardstack technology and architecture. Learn all about our decentralized application server, user experience, SDK, schema, runtime, security model, protocol adapters, integration plugins, module registry, and deployment options.
https://cardstack.com/technology
Our goal: Cooperation instead of competition
We aim to steer the decentralized tech ecosystem away from the competitive mindset of the last 10 years, where all tech companies competed against each other for eyeballs, dollars, developer mindshare, and screen time. At Cardstack, we believe that the next 10 years will be about cooperation between network participants instead:
Users drive usage → They are the source of economic value in the ecosystem.
Developers create new tools → They broaden the capability of the ecosystem.
Protocol community members manage the incentive & governance model → They ensure successful cooperation between participants of the ecosystem.
Read more about our roadmap: https://medium.com/cardstack/2020-the-year-of-launches-82ab84e4a1c7
Our plans for 2020: A shared foundation for our apps
In 2019, we focused on various use cases for our software, building open-source apps around decentralized finance, content syndication, and media registries.
In 2020, we aim to unify the features of these apps into one common runtime, based on Card Schema V2—which allows users to mix and match cards from different suites (whether the focus is finance, content, data management, or workflow) and run them on the same server, in the same framework, with the same hosting provider. All our applications will share the same foundation.
You can read more about Card Schema V2 in this blog post: https://medium.com/cardstack/card-schema-explained-8c5340a7cd9f
The first hosting service: Card.Space
Card.Space will be the first hosting platform for dApps in the Cardstack ecosystem. It empowers users who don’t have the technical capabilities to run their own decentralized apps, by offering them a one-click hosting service that is reliable, cost-effective, and easy to use.
It works just like any other platform: Once you have an account, you can create your own space for yourself, your team, your private/public group, or a hierarchy of interrelated subteams. Then, you can run any Cardstack app written in Card Schema V2 just by opening a template in the browser—and start interacting with it immediately.
All service providers in the Cardstack membership network will benefit from a global software catalog, unified billing & payments, cross-honored membership, and a token-curated registry. To learn more about the role of service providers, take a look at our website: https://cardstack.com/
Developers are card makers: The Card SDK
Last year, we launched Card SDK V1, enabling developers to build apps that tap into the full power of the Cardstack Hub—with its indexing, transactional writing, access control, API generation, and UI support, including templating and routing.
Since then, we have been upgrading the Card SDK to support the V2 model that is currently in development. Card SDK V2 improves the encapsulation of code, making it easier for developers to reuse modules they have created in other cards. For example: Once you have built a payment processing card for credit card or crypto payments, you can insert it into any other card you are building (e.g. a concert ticket card), which can use the exact same payment UI, API calls, and wallet integrations.
The future Card SDK V2 documentation will be available here: https://docs.cardstack.com/release/
Users are app makers: The Cardstack Builder
99.9% of humanity does not code. That’s why we facilitate not only code-driven, but also no-code approaches to making composable apps, by providing drag-and-drop tools for card assembly and point-and-click-tools for configuration. These easy-to-use tools will greatly increase the number of card makers who can actively contribute to and profit from the richness of the Cardstack ecosystem. Therefore, the current focus of our research and development revolves around creating the card building tool that makes this possible: the Cardstack Builder.
Read more about the Cardstack Builder: https://medium.com/cardstack/the-ultimate-card-building-tool-25c442e22bed
A Card Catalog of prebuilt templates
When it comes to no-code platforms, most users start with prebuilt templates, to which they make little tweaks. As a result, they can get a SaaS app up and running in as little as 15 minutes.
That’s why we encourage all card makers (both those who write code and those who work with the drag-and-drop tools of the Cardstack Builder) to share the card templates they create with the greater community—by simply adding them to the Card Catalog, which will include premium templates as well.
Learn more about the underlying technology for the Card Catalog: Githereum—which is a git-based file system structure for managing these submissions through the Ethereum blockchain: https://medium.com/cardstack/introducing-gitchain-add61790226e
Inspired by 3D open-world games: The Boxel Design System
At Cardstack, we aim to give users a cohesive experience across all the capabilities we offer:
The process of combining these actions should be fluid, which is why we borrow a page from the game world’s book, where everything—dragging and dropping, zooming in and out, selecting and configuring in-game objects—is done in a consistent way.
Our solution for such composable Web 3.0 experiences is based on the principle of box elements (boxel), which we expect to turn into a complete design system that supports full theming for companies and brands. The UI components and boxel engines are under active development and will be part of the Card SDK as well as the Cardstack Builder.
Read more in our blog post about our 2020 roadmap: https://medium.com/cardstack/2020-the-year-of-launches-82ab84e4a1c7
Communication + Transaction = Cooperation
More and more platforms facilitate communication via chat groups, social media posts, and forum messages. They drive engagement and screen time, but don’t return a lot of transactions in terms of dollar values. On the other hand, transactional systems for e-commerce payments, crypto, or B2B workflows have little support for communication.
At Cardstack, communication & transactions are combined to create cooperative workflows: Let’s say a card contains business transaction data in the form of a purchase order or digital asset. This card can travel from one user’s/organization’s space to another user’s/organization’s space through an interactive workflow that includes messaging capabilities.
Card data services are currently in development. They will make it possible for cards to be imported into a hub; and once a card has been imported, it is fully functional within the hub, including the UI, APIs, security control, and data query capabilities.
Learn more about the Cardstack Hub: https://cardstack.com/technology
Multi-hub interaction for access control
We are designing a distributed query service we call multi-hub interaction, which enables cards to move between realms seamlessly, with each realm representing a certain type of security and access control. Think of your private folder on your computer as the 1st realm, your shared Dropbox folder for your team as a 2nd realm, and a public folder where you drop files others can download as a 3rd realm.
These interactions are based on the git protocol, which allows for version control and tracking, as cards move between realms. Allowing multiple hubs that are run by different organizations to cooperate as one extended network will lead to promising new economic models.
Read more in our blog post about our 2020 roadmap:
https://medium.com/cardstack/2020-the-year-of-launches-82ab84e4a1c7
Revenue from customers drives rewards for makers
A truly sustainable ecosystem runs on top-line revenue, as customers pay real money for products or services. That’s why an essential part of our strategy is our billing and reward system, Tally, which was launched to testnet mid-2019. In order to drive revenue, this system will allow users to pay for their usage of services on the Cardstack network in the currency of their choice.
To achieve this, we will integrate Tally with payment gateways to process credit card payments as well as top decentralized exchanges. Once these integrations are done, we expect to push Tally to mainnet and fully integrate the CARD Protocol with user-facing services.
Check out Tally on testnet: https://staging-tally.stack.cards/
Governing the Card Catalog via the CARD token
Among its many benefits, the CARD Protocol will support staking as a means to govern the Card Catalog. This allows people who are knowledgeable about crypto economics and software quality to act as reviewers for new cards that are submitted. By using the CARD token as a governance token, we plan to delegate the ongoing management of the Card Catalog—decisions like which cards get listed in which categories under which conditions—to a community-governed process.
If you’re interested in more details about the CARD Protocol, here’s our Medium article: https://medium.com/cardstack/the-card-protocol-explained-c78e8e091a72
Anyone can offer their services in the network
A registry of service providers will be built on the Githereum (a git- and Ethereum-based) registry system. It will allow providers who want to offer services in different geographic locations, as well as developers or designers who want to offer consulting services to customers on the network, to list and promote themselves in a way that makes sense to them. This registry will be curated using the CARD token as the native accounting unit and the fee denomination for registry maintenance.
Learn more about the role of service providers on our website: https://cardstack.com/
We are proud to announce that the Cardstack Project has reached a major milestone!
After months of hard work, we successfully merged the new version of the Cardstack Hub (which implements Card Schema V2) with the main Cardstack Builder codebase last week. Read all about the new hub in this article: https://medium.com/cardstack/milestone-reached-the-new-cardstack-hub-23fff7e64eb2
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“Choose from a library of prebuilt templates. Adjust and combine them to create your very own apps, which help you manage your projects, sync your tasks, and grow your business.”
The new Cardstack website presents the powerful tools we offer users—like a form creator, access control, white-label support, and interactive messaging, as well as task synchronization (based on our Gitchain technology) and automation (e.g. to generate invoices and multi-currency payments).
https://cardstack.com/
Working together to break the status quo
“Users, designers, developers, and service providers cooperate to create the shared software catalog for the next decade.”
The new Cardstack website visualizes the competitive focus of the last decade, which led to application silos that required multiple logins from users. The next decade will be all about cooperation across individuals, businesses, and industries instead—as all network participants will be connected through an open and fair protocol.
https://cardstack.com/
Build it on your own
“The Cardstack Builder brings the fun (and profit) of building software to non-coders, which is 99.9% of humanity!”
The new Cardstack website gives you a sneak preview of our user-friendly app building tool, which allows users to assemble, configure, style, and publish their own apps without writing any code.
If you would like to learn more about the Cardstack Builder, check out this blog post: https://medium.com/cardstack/the-ultimate-card-building-tool-25c442e22bed
https://cardstack.com/
Design it to fit your needs
“Do it in style. Create templates and themes for others to choose from, while you grow your client base with custom and premium themes.”
The new Cardstack website conveys the relationship between designers and users—as users get to choose from a shared catalog of themes, which are created by designers, who in turn get paid for their work based on usage.
https://cardstack.com/
Code it to do more
“Most SaaS products are proprietary, so one company owns your data. Because Cardstack is open source, you own not only your data, but your customized software too.”
The new Cardstack website gives you an overview of the benefits Cardstack offers developers—being open source, fully documented, and (due to the underlying CARD Protocol) profitable too! Plus, there’s a detailed list telling you which skills you need to extend Cardstack yourself via UI customization, feature enhancements, or system integration.
https://cardstack.com/
Host it anywhere you want
“Similarly to other open-sourced software like WordPress, users can choose any hosting provider to manage and run their Cardstack-based app for them. A large number of hosting providers in the Cardstack ecosystem will ensure that users from around the world get tailored services that fit their budget and requirements.”
The new Cardstack website introduces the first hosting provider of the Cardstack ecosystem—Card.Space—and tells you how your company can join the Cardstack membership network. Service providers will benefit from a global software catalog, unified billing & payments, cross-honored memberships, and a token-curated registry.
https://cardstack.com/
The Cardstack Mission: “We are building the alternative to centralized SaaS apps that lock users into the platforms of Silicon Valley’s tech giants.”
The new Cardstack website reflects our mission to jumpstart Web 3.0—by offering connections without intermediaries between individuals and organizations through a three-part approach: Open Source, Open Marketplace, Open Protocol
https://cardstack.com/
The tech stack beneath Cardstack
The new Cardstack website gives you a detailed overview of the Cardstack technology and architecture. Learn all about our decentralized application server, user experience, SDK, schema, runtime, security model, protocol adapters, integration plugins, module registry, and deployment options.
https://cardstack.com/technology
Our goal: Cooperation instead of competition
We aim to steer the decentralized tech ecosystem away from the competitive mindset of the last 10 years, where all tech companies competed against each other for eyeballs, dollars, developer mindshare, and screen time. At Cardstack, we believe that the next 10 years will be about cooperation between network participants instead:
Users drive usage → They are the source of economic value in the ecosystem.
Developers create new tools → They broaden the capability of the ecosystem.
Protocol community members manage the incentive & governance model → They ensure successful cooperation between participants of the ecosystem.
Read more about our roadmap: https://medium.com/cardstack/2020-the-year-of-launches-82ab84e4a1c7
Our plans for 2020: A shared foundation for our apps
In 2019, we focused on various use cases for our software, building open-source apps around decentralized finance, content syndication, and media registries.
In 2020, we aim to unify the features of these apps into one common runtime, based on Card Schema V2—which allows users to mix and match cards from different suites (whether the focus is finance, content, data management, or workflow) and run them on the same server, in the same framework, with the same hosting provider. All our applications will share the same foundation.
You can read more about Card Schema V2 in this blog post: https://medium.com/cardstack/card-schema-explained-8c5340a7cd9f
The first hosting service: Card.Space
Card.Space will be the first hosting platform for dApps in the Cardstack ecosystem. It empowers users who don’t have the technical capabilities to run their own decentralized apps, by offering them a one-click hosting service that is reliable, cost-effective, and easy to use.
It works just like any other platform: Once you have an account, you can create your own space for yourself, your team, your private/public group, or a hierarchy of interrelated subteams. Then, you can run any Cardstack app written in Card Schema V2 just by opening a template in the browser—and start interacting with it immediately.
All service providers in the Cardstack membership network will benefit from a global software catalog, unified billing & payments, cross-honored membership, and a token-curated registry. To learn more about the role of service providers, take a look at our website: https://cardstack.com/
Developers are card makers: The Card SDK
Last year, we launched Card SDK V1, enabling developers to build apps that tap into the full power of the Cardstack Hub—with its indexing, transactional writing, access control, API generation, and UI support, including templating and routing.
Since then, we have been upgrading the Card SDK to support the V2 model that is currently in development. Card SDK V2 improves the encapsulation of code, making it easier for developers to reuse modules they have created in other cards. For example: Once you have built a payment processing card for credit card or crypto payments, you can insert it into any other card you are building (e.g. a concert ticket card), which can use the exact same payment UI, API calls, and wallet integrations.
The future Card SDK V2 documentation will be available here: https://docs.cardstack.com/release/
Users are app makers: The Cardstack Builder
99.9% of humanity does not code. That’s why we facilitate not only code-driven, but also no-code approaches to making composable apps, by providing drag-and-drop tools for card assembly and point-and-click-tools for configuration. These easy-to-use tools will greatly increase the number of card makers who can actively contribute to and profit from the richness of the Cardstack ecosystem. Therefore, the current focus of our research and development revolves around creating the card building tool that makes this possible: the Cardstack Builder.
Read more about the Cardstack Builder: https://medium.com/cardstack/the-ultimate-card-building-tool-25c442e22bed
A Card Catalog of prebuilt templates
When it comes to no-code platforms, most users start with prebuilt templates, to which they make little tweaks. As a result, they can get a SaaS app up and running in as little as 15 minutes.
That’s why we encourage all card makers (both those who write code and those who work with the drag-and-drop tools of the Cardstack Builder) to share the card templates they create with the greater community—by simply adding them to the Card Catalog, which will include premium templates as well.
Learn more about the underlying technology for the Card Catalog: Githereum—which is a git-based file system structure for managing these submissions through the Ethereum blockchain: https://medium.com/cardstack/introducing-gitchain-add61790226e
Inspired by 3D open-world games: The Boxel Design System
At Cardstack, we aim to give users a cohesive experience across all the capabilities we offer:
- creating new cards using the Cardstack Builder
- searching and collecting card templates in the Card Catalog
- adding cards to the personal Card.Space
- combining cards to create high-level workflows
The process of combining these actions should be fluid, which is why we borrow a page from the game world’s book, where everything—dragging and dropping, zooming in and out, selecting and configuring in-game objects—is done in a consistent way.
Our solution for such composable Web 3.0 experiences is based on the principle of box elements (boxel), which we expect to turn into a complete design system that supports full theming for companies and brands. The UI components and boxel engines are under active development and will be part of the Card SDK as well as the Cardstack Builder.
Read more in our blog post about our 2020 roadmap: https://medium.com/cardstack/2020-the-year-of-launches-82ab84e4a1c7
Communication + Transaction = Cooperation
More and more platforms facilitate communication via chat groups, social media posts, and forum messages. They drive engagement and screen time, but don’t return a lot of transactions in terms of dollar values. On the other hand, transactional systems for e-commerce payments, crypto, or B2B workflows have little support for communication.
At Cardstack, communication & transactions are combined to create cooperative workflows: Let’s say a card contains business transaction data in the form of a purchase order or digital asset. This card can travel from one user’s/organization’s space to another user’s/organization’s space through an interactive workflow that includes messaging capabilities.
Card data services are currently in development. They will make it possible for cards to be imported into a hub; and once a card has been imported, it is fully functional within the hub, including the UI, APIs, security control, and data query capabilities.
Learn more about the Cardstack Hub: https://cardstack.com/technology
Multi-hub interaction for access control
We are designing a distributed query service we call multi-hub interaction, which enables cards to move between realms seamlessly, with each realm representing a certain type of security and access control. Think of your private folder on your computer as the 1st realm, your shared Dropbox folder for your team as a 2nd realm, and a public folder where you drop files others can download as a 3rd realm.
These interactions are based on the git protocol, which allows for version control and tracking, as cards move between realms. Allowing multiple hubs that are run by different organizations to cooperate as one extended network will lead to promising new economic models.
Read more in our blog post about our 2020 roadmap:
https://medium.com/cardstack/2020-the-year-of-launches-82ab84e4a1c7
Revenue from customers drives rewards for makers
A truly sustainable ecosystem runs on top-line revenue, as customers pay real money for products or services. That’s why an essential part of our strategy is our billing and reward system, Tally, which was launched to testnet mid-2019. In order to drive revenue, this system will allow users to pay for their usage of services on the Cardstack network in the currency of their choice.
To achieve this, we will integrate Tally with payment gateways to process credit card payments as well as top decentralized exchanges. Once these integrations are done, we expect to push Tally to mainnet and fully integrate the CARD Protocol with user-facing services.
Check out Tally on testnet: https://staging-tally.stack.cards/
Governing the Card Catalog via the CARD token
Among its many benefits, the CARD Protocol will support staking as a means to govern the Card Catalog. This allows people who are knowledgeable about crypto economics and software quality to act as reviewers for new cards that are submitted. By using the CARD token as a governance token, we plan to delegate the ongoing management of the Card Catalog—decisions like which cards get listed in which categories under which conditions—to a community-governed process.
If you’re interested in more details about the CARD Protocol, here’s our Medium article: https://medium.com/cardstack/the-card-protocol-explained-c78e8e091a72
Anyone can offer their services in the network
A registry of service providers will be built on the Githereum (a git- and Ethereum-based) registry system. It will allow providers who want to offer services in different geographic locations, as well as developers or designers who want to offer consulting services to customers on the network, to list and promote themselves in a way that makes sense to them. This registry will be curated using the CARD token as the native accounting unit and the fee denomination for registry maintenance.
Learn more about the role of service providers on our website: https://cardstack.com/
We are proud to announce that the Cardstack Project has reached a major milestone! After months of hard work, we successfully merged the new version of the Cardstack Hub (which implements Card Schema V2) with the main Cardstack Builder codebase last week. Read all about the new hub in this article: https://medium.com/cardstack/milestone-reached-the-new-cardstack-hub-23fff7e64eb2
[moderator's note: consecutive posts merged]
February 05, 2020, 07:06:42 PM
Cardstack is a good project. It prepares a wordpress-like environment for decentralized applications. We will be able to practice without knowing coding. I think everything will be ready by the end of 2020.
January 29, 2020, 05:54:05 PM
A new update about the site from the team!
"We have launched the new Cardstack website!
Visit our revamped website, which conveys our product orientation in a less techy and more user-friendly way. As you will see, the Cardstack platform will enable users to build their own apps the no-code way, while designers and developers provide extensions via custom themes, advanced features, and integrations. Finally, service providers can join the Cardstack membership network to host these apps in any cloud. And it’s all coordinated through a unified billing system built on the Ethereum blockchain.
Check it out yourself to learn all about our product and technology, as well as our design & development studio:
https://cardstack.com/"
"We have launched the new Cardstack website!
Visit our revamped website, which conveys our product orientation in a less techy and more user-friendly way. As you will see, the Cardstack platform will enable users to build their own apps the no-code way, while designers and developers provide extensions via custom themes, advanced features, and integrations. Finally, service providers can join the Cardstack membership network to host these apps in any cloud. And it’s all coordinated through a unified billing system built on the Ethereum blockchain.
Check it out yourself to learn all about our product and technology, as well as our design & development studio:
https://cardstack.com/"
Amazing what a "mere" site revamp can do to a product. The product suddenly feels accessible and less daunting to "consume". The usecase presentation right off the site's front page immediately draws one into the product, while explaining what it's all about
January 29, 2020, 10:19:04 AM
A new update about the site from the team!
"We have launched the new Cardstack website!
Visit our revamped website, which conveys our product orientation in a less techy and more user-friendly way. As you will see, the Cardstack platform will enable users to build their own apps the no-code way, while designers and developers provide extensions via custom themes, advanced features, and integrations. Finally, service providers can join the Cardstack membership network to host these apps in any cloud. And it’s all coordinated through a unified billing system built on the Ethereum blockchain.
Check it out yourself to learn all about our product and technology, as well as our design & development studio:
https://cardstack.com/"
"We have launched the new Cardstack website!
Visit our revamped website, which conveys our product orientation in a less techy and more user-friendly way. As you will see, the Cardstack platform will enable users to build their own apps the no-code way, while designers and developers provide extensions via custom themes, advanced features, and integrations. Finally, service providers can join the Cardstack membership network to host these apps in any cloud. And it’s all coordinated through a unified billing system built on the Ethereum blockchain.
Check it out yourself to learn all about our product and technology, as well as our design & development studio:
https://cardstack.com/"
January 29, 2020, 08:49:08 AM
Let's hope this year truly becomes the year of launches for CARD. Given, development takes time. However, CARD's seems to be a tad bit more hard-hitting than most probably due to communication or catering to the wrong community. Hopefully this will turn around with the releases
January 28, 2020, 12:06:21 PM
Newest Announcement from the team!
"2020 is the year of launches!
Join us as we dive into our new roadmap, explaining how we will converge our separate features into one cohesive experience. This article tells you all about our plans for Card.Space, Cardstack Builder, Card Catalog, Tally, and more things to come.
https://medium.com/cardstack/2020-the-year-of-launches-82ab84e4a1c7"
"2020 is the year of launches!
Join us as we dive into our new roadmap, explaining how we will converge our separate features into one cohesive experience. This article tells you all about our plans for Card.Space, Cardstack Builder, Card Catalog, Tally, and more things to come.
https://medium.com/cardstack/2020-the-year-of-launches-82ab84e4a1c7"
The team previously gave some more info on the Roadmap
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We want to provide everything the users need at a good price, with good services, and a good selection. We want our network to give developers the opportunity to reach the largest audience on the Web. We want to enable providers to compete on price, services, and geography. We want to allow businesses to white-label our software, to build collaborative blockchain- or cloud-based networks, and reach users in new ways.
We have highlighted all our milestones towards achieving this goal in our 2020 roadmap!
We have highlighted all our milestones towards achieving this goal in our 2020 roadmap!
January 17, 2020, 05:48:33 PM
From the Team on Telegram... Stay tuned for this!
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Coming up: The new Cardstack website!
We’ll be launching our completely revamped website in the coming days. Get ready to learn all about our product orientation in a user-friendly language and design, including a sneak preview of the Cardstack Builder.
We’ll be launching our completely revamped website in the coming days. Get ready to learn all about our product orientation in a user-friendly language and design, including a sneak preview of the Cardstack Builder.
January 09, 2020, 02:05:27 PM
Newest Announcement from the team!
"2020 is the year of launches!
Join us as we dive into our new roadmap, explaining how we will converge our separate features into one cohesive experience. This article tells you all about our plans for Card.Space, Cardstack Builder, Card Catalog, Tally, and more things to come.
https://medium.com/cardstack/2020-the-year-of-launches-82ab84e4a1c7"
"2020 is the year of launches!
Join us as we dive into our new roadmap, explaining how we will converge our separate features into one cohesive experience. This article tells you all about our plans for Card.Space, Cardstack Builder, Card Catalog, Tally, and more things to come.
https://medium.com/cardstack/2020-the-year-of-launches-82ab84e4a1c7"
December 19, 2019, 01:55:30 PM
2020 will be an exciting year! Here’s our end-of-the-year update on what’s to come, including the status of the Cardstack Builder and our new roadmap for the Cardstack Project.
https://medium.com/cardstack/whats-new-at-cardstack-4bde1eb79dcf
https://medium.com/cardstack/whats-new-at-cardstack-4bde1eb79dcf
November 25, 2019, 12:31:59 PM
Check out the latest from the team:
Read all about the Cardstack Builder! Here’s our blog post to go with Chris’ recent product talk, in which he explains how users can build their own apps quickly and easily, using nothing more than their mouse and drag-and-drop tools. Once they have assembled their fields and cards like Lego bricks, they can chain them together to create all kinds of workflows and embed them in message threads—thus enjoying one cohesive experience that also can (but doesn’t have to) be further customized for them by developers.
https://medium.com/cardstack/the-ultimate-card-building-tool-25c442e22bed
Read all about the Cardstack Builder! Here’s our blog post to go with Chris’ recent product talk, in which he explains how users can build their own apps quickly and easily, using nothing more than their mouse and drag-and-drop tools. Once they have assembled their fields and cards like Lego bricks, they can chain them together to create all kinds of workflows and embed them in message threads—thus enjoying one cohesive experience that also can (but doesn’t have to) be further customized for them by developers.
https://medium.com/cardstack/the-ultimate-card-building-tool-25c442e22bed
Do you have some apps ( or daaps?) om your platform? How many if yes? And have this apps active users so far or this is just an empty apps?
What launguage devs should use to create apps on your platform?
so far I still don't understand Cardstack, what function does Cardtsack have in the community?
I know that they dont have own blockchain. I said about platform. As seems they have some platform for developers. So I want to understand for what is this?
The Cardstack Framework is built on Ember and Node.js. It allows developers to quickly build modular, interoperable apps, or cards, through an open-source catalog of features and integrations. Using plugins, developers can extend cards with the power of cloud services, decentralized apps, smart contracts, and much more.
Developers can build a modular Web app using Card Space, by combining and embedding cards or allowing others to submit cards. Card Flow is a Git-based version control system that manages card movements, allowing developers to create collaborative, interactive Web experiences.
November 23, 2019, 11:47:16 AM
Check out the latest from the team:
Read all about the Cardstack Builder! Here’s our blog post to go with Chris’ recent product talk, in which he explains how users can build their own apps quickly and easily, using nothing more than their mouse and drag-and-drop tools. Once they have assembled their fields and cards like Lego bricks, they can chain them together to create all kinds of workflows and embed them in message threads—thus enjoying one cohesive experience that also can (but doesn’t have to) be further customized for them by developers.
https://medium.com/cardstack/the-ultimate-card-building-tool-25c442e22bed
Read all about the Cardstack Builder! Here’s our blog post to go with Chris’ recent product talk, in which he explains how users can build their own apps quickly and easily, using nothing more than their mouse and drag-and-drop tools. Once they have assembled their fields and cards like Lego bricks, they can chain them together to create all kinds of workflows and embed them in message threads—thus enjoying one cohesive experience that also can (but doesn’t have to) be further customized for them by developers.
https://medium.com/cardstack/the-ultimate-card-building-tool-25c442e22bed
Do you have some apps ( or daaps?) om your platform? How many if yes? And have this apps active users so far or this is just an empty apps?
What launguage devs should use to create apps on your platform?
so far I still don't understand Cardstack, what function does Cardtsack have in the community?
I know that they dont have own blockchain. I said about platform. As seems they have some platform for developers. So I want to understand for what is this?
November 23, 2019, 04:33:11 AM
Check out the latest from the team:
Read all about the Cardstack Builder! Here’s our blog post to go with Chris’ recent product talk, in which he explains how users can build their own apps quickly and easily, using nothing more than their mouse and drag-and-drop tools. Once they have assembled their fields and cards like Lego bricks, they can chain them together to create all kinds of workflows and embed them in message threads—thus enjoying one cohesive experience that also can (but doesn’t have to) be further customized for them by developers.
https://medium.com/cardstack/the-ultimate-card-building-tool-25c442e22bed
Read all about the Cardstack Builder! Here’s our blog post to go with Chris’ recent product talk, in which he explains how users can build their own apps quickly and easily, using nothing more than their mouse and drag-and-drop tools. Once they have assembled their fields and cards like Lego bricks, they can chain them together to create all kinds of workflows and embed them in message threads—thus enjoying one cohesive experience that also can (but doesn’t have to) be further customized for them by developers.
https://medium.com/cardstack/the-ultimate-card-building-tool-25c442e22bed
Do you have some apps ( or daaps?) om your platform? How many if yes? And have this apps active users so far or this is just an empty apps?
What launguage devs should use to create apps on your platform?
so far I still don't understand Cardstack, what function does Cardtsack have in the community?
November 22, 2019, 03:54:48 PM
Check out the latest from the team:
Read all about the Cardstack Builder! Here’s our blog post to go with Chris’ recent product talk, in which he explains how users can build their own apps quickly and easily, using nothing more than their mouse and drag-and-drop tools. Once they have assembled their fields and cards like Lego bricks, they can chain them together to create all kinds of workflows and embed them in message threads—thus enjoying one cohesive experience that also can (but doesn’t have to) be further customized for them by developers.
https://medium.com/cardstack/the-ultimate-card-building-tool-25c442e22bed
Read all about the Cardstack Builder! Here’s our blog post to go with Chris’ recent product talk, in which he explains how users can build their own apps quickly and easily, using nothing more than their mouse and drag-and-drop tools. Once they have assembled their fields and cards like Lego bricks, they can chain them together to create all kinds of workflows and embed them in message threads—thus enjoying one cohesive experience that also can (but doesn’t have to) be further customized for them by developers.
https://medium.com/cardstack/the-ultimate-card-building-tool-25c442e22bed
Do you have some apps ( or daaps?) om your platform? How many if yes? And have this apps active users so far or this is just an empty apps?
What launguage devs should use to create apps on your platform?
November 22, 2019, 01:30:23 PM
Check out the latest from the team:
Read all about the Cardstack Builder! Here’s our blog post to go with Chris’ recent product talk, in which he explains how users can build their own apps quickly and easily, using nothing more than their mouse and drag-and-drop tools. Once they have assembled their fields and cards like Lego bricks, they can chain them together to create all kinds of workflows and embed them in message threads—thus enjoying one cohesive experience that also can (but doesn’t have to) be further customized for them by developers.
https://medium.com/cardstack/the-ultimate-card-building-tool-25c442e22bed
Read all about the Cardstack Builder! Here’s our blog post to go with Chris’ recent product talk, in which he explains how users can build their own apps quickly and easily, using nothing more than their mouse and drag-and-drop tools. Once they have assembled their fields and cards like Lego bricks, they can chain them together to create all kinds of workflows and embed them in message threads—thus enjoying one cohesive experience that also can (but doesn’t have to) be further customized for them by developers.
https://medium.com/cardstack/the-ultimate-card-building-tool-25c442e22bed
November 13, 2019, 12:07:53 PM
What is the Card SDK?
The Card SDK (software development kit) is a composable UI system, which developers use to create the cards they add to the Card Catalog. When it comes to packaging those cards, they can build an entire full-screen stand-alone website, embed the cards within their websites or workflows, or provide an overlay that allows users to pick and choose from several cards.
To learn more about the SDK, check out this part of Chris’ talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AmjAvQGSYw&t=629s
November 05, 2019, 12:42:18 PM
Did you miss Chris’ latest product talk?
In this video, he presents the Cardstack Builder—the unique (drag-and-drop-style) card building tool that allows people who don’t know how to code to assemble their own real working apps: https://youtu.be/PkpVR2U554k
In this video, he presents the Cardstack Builder—the unique (drag-and-drop-style) card building tool that allows people who don’t know how to code to assemble their own real working apps: https://youtu.be/PkpVR2U554k
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