Welcome to the first Dev Update by SynergyAI 👋
Here you can catch up on everything that’s been happening on the platform in the last couple of weeks.
We’re planning to post an update each week, follow our Medium to always stay up-to-date.
Changed all analysis charts to candlestick type powered by TradingView
Completed 5 user feedback sessions and redesigned the main page for better usability
Redesigned token page based on user feedback
Implemented SAFU pre-scanning for all tokens displayed on the main page
The last couple of weeks have been very busy for the SynergyAI team, after a couple of user feedback sessions we found a lot of features that could be improved.
Here’s everything we’ve completed so far 👇
During one of the feedback sessions, a user said:
The platform’s really good, but the charts suck.
Candlestick charts have always been on the development roadmap, but that particular piece of feedback pushed it to the top of our agenda.
We started thinking what would be the best way to implement candlestick charts. After all, that’s the tool all investors use to trade on DeFi. The first approach we came up with was using a React library to draw the charts which would display the data provided by the indexer (our server that stores all data from Ethereum and lets us display it for the users). The thing with these libraries is that they are quite limited in their features and very hard to expand. We have some features on the roadmap that require fiddling with charts and the libraries were not a good fit for those needs.
Another approach would include creating an open-source charting library ourselves. This approach was quite good, because we would be able to implement virtually anything we think of and design the library to exactly match our needs. However, during another feedback session with a user the problem of charts was brought up again. The user clearly specified that they use a lot of technical indicators while trading and won’t trade without them. This would require us to implement hundreds of indicators and take at least a couple of months. SynergyAI is not a charting company. We are building a DeFi analysis platform and need a simple-to-implement solution for displaying charts. That clearly wasn’t the best solution.
That’s when the idea of simply using TradingView charts emerged. We’ve done some research and it turns out that almost all major exchanges and analysis platforms use it. The charts are used from DeFi throughout traditional markets and commodities. This was clearly the best way to do it. An added benefit was that many users are already familiar with TradingView charts, because they use them on many different platforms. We’ve contacted TradingView to get access to their Advanced Chart and implemented it on SynergyAI in a matter of days.
Redesigned pages
Although SynergyAI is being built by DeFi traders and people who actually are the users of the platform, there are some things we didn’t get right during the initial UI design.
Token page
The users seemed to have a problem with locating data they were looking for. Basic metrics, such as market capitalization, volume and liquidity used to be hard to find and frustrated users. We’ve changed the pagelayout to make them easy to find and more readable.
Another thing was linking between tabs on the token page. Many users encounted a problem with switching between the Chart, SAFU Score and Holders tab. We’ve tweaked the design to make it more noticeable and added additional links on the utility bar (section on the right of the chart).
Main page
The main page, where every user lands after launching the platform didn’t include all the information users were looking for. Users are looking for a lot of tokens and the ability to sort them easily, so they can discover new opportunities. The redesigned page features 3x more tokens at once, so the users are able to discover new tokens faster and more easily.
Some users were also complaining about the long times needed for the SAFU analysis to complete. We changed the way displaying tokens on the main page works, so that all of the tokens are pre-scanned and present the analysis in a matter of milliseconds.
Our early access signups are still live here. Some people are saying that the first cohort of users will be onboarded onto the platform really soon 👀
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Thank you for reading this update! Come back next week to hear more about the development of SynergyAI.
Karol Proksa, 08 Jan 2024
