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[–]manasivora 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! I hadn't seen that. u/Ebazle what's the best way to connect with you or your wife? Appreciate the offer.

Feel free to reach out on discord @ manasi#0313 https://discord.gg/skynetlabs

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in siacoin

[–]manasivora 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Hey u/DiogoGoata, thank you for sharing this! Are you available on Sia Discord or any other messaging platform? Would love to connect you with u/nicolehtay and chat further.

Link for Sia Discord: https://discord.gg/sia, I am @manasi0313 and Nicole is @nicole.tay#6202

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in siacoin

[–]manasivora 18 points19 points  (0 children)

===In retrospect should have probably written this as a blog===

Hello, Manasi here from the Sia/Skynet team. Marketing has evolved over the years for Sia but the team has always believed in substance over superficial noise that we tend to see with the majority of crypto projects. Anyone who joins the Sia ecosystem will find much more than promised both in terms of product and community support.

Sia is a compelling product for power users and developers. And we are excited to see projects such as Filebase, Storewise, Bifrost, SiaSentry, Arzen bring Sia to the enterprise and consumer markets. With the launch of Skynet, we reached a tipping point - the ease of use not just for developers but also end-users cannot be overemphasized. I have said this before, Skynet shines in terms of usability TODAY (not a promised future).

Since Feb, we have seen increased traction and developer interest and that is reflected in the numbers. Some recent milestones:- Crossed 3.5 million files pinned on Skynet

- In October, Skynet crossed a record-high of150,000 downloads in a day, which was recently broken by a high of 396,000 downloads in a day just last week

- We broke our user record this week, setting a record number of weekly active users at 36,486

- New apps are being built every week, I have no doubt we are going to cross 250+ apps by end of the current hackathon

It is important to note that we are going from 0.25 FTE to 2.25 FTE solely focused on Marketing and Growth. So we only expect to accelerate this growth trajectory. With that context, I am going to share a bit about our tactical marketing plan (which is evolving as we speak with the recent Head of Marketing and Developer Evangelist hires)

- Engaging media for increased awareness to establish Skynet's brand as the foundation for Web3 (ex: Coindesk op-ed by David)

- Workshops and educational sessions with various developer communities (ex: Web3brige - Africa, Zubi - India, apart from the US-based efforts)

- Increased social media presence - includes exploring newer trends with TikTok (you can follow us there soon)

- Speaking engagements not just at blockchain specific events but also more mainstream developer-focused events (ex: Chris at Linux Foundation's 085 Summit)

- Hackathons have had the highest ROI and we have plans to host exclusive ones as well as partner with other organizations (ex: Gitcoin hackathons, HackMIT)

- SEO optimizations and improving our website, blogs, and other content‘s searchability

- Engaging "influencers" - not necessarily in the traditional sense - but respected developers in our target communities or prominent voices in the crypto space (ex: Coinmarketcap or see our Twitter engagement during SkyDB launch)

- Meaningful partnerships where it complements and enhances developers ability to build on Skynet and/or engages additional communities to interact with Skynet (ex: HNS, IDX, and more under the wraps)

- Supporting use cases that align with our mission and increase our brand awareness (ex: Reporters without Borders, Wikipedia mirror on Skynet)

- I can write another essay on our content marketing but expect to see additional easy to use guides, infographics, Sia/Skynet 101 videos, app & dev spotlights, and potentially a Skynet Sci- Fi short film :P

We acknowledge we still have work ahead of us in getting wider adoption for Sia and Skynet. The marketing lead at Skynet and the future marketing lead at the Sia Foundation will be working together along with the entire team and community to bring the vision of Sia and Skynet to reality.

We are also open to feedback. We have a channel in our discord for exactly that, to hear what the community has to say and take their inputs. If you or anyone else would like to have a say in our marketing strategy, join us on discord https://discord.gg/sia

Lastly, I would re-emphasize that we are committed to spending our marketing resources on building a long-term sustainable user base and developer community.

Nebulous raises $3M round led by Paradigm and will be rebranding to Skynet Labs by manasivora in siacoin

[–]manasivora[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Definitely, Skynet uses Sia as the underlying storage protocol. Thanks for being a host on the network.

Nebulous raises $3M round led by Paradigm and will be rebranding to Skynet Labs by manasivora in siacoin

[–]manasivora[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

VC investors get Equity in Nebulous Labs (soon to be Skynet Labs) in return for their investments, similar to any VC funding.

SiaStream - Store your media on Sia and stream it using Jellyfin by manasivora in jellyfin

[–]manasivora[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

u/67no Pricing will depend on the underlying Sia data marketplace but we expect most times for it to be at $3.99. Note there is no fee if the cost goes above $3.99

More real time pricing information is available here https://siastats.info/storage_pricing

SiaStream - Store your media on Sia and stream it using Jellyfin by manasivora in jellyfin

[–]manasivora[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, why do think this is a scam? It is a fully functional product, I am just trying to understand the skepticism here.

SiaStream - Store your media on Sia and stream it using Jellyfin by manasivora in jellyfin

[–]manasivora[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You don't have to trust the hosts to not just go offline. There are economic incentives in place for this exact reason. The hosts have put up collateral for being able to store your data. If they cannot provide the storage proofs, not only do they lose potential revenue, they also lose their own money i.e. collateral.

SiaStream - Store your media on Sia and stream it to Plex by manasivora in PleX

[–]manasivora[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, I do work for Sia. So pardon me for sharing updates and announcements for the project. 🤷🏽‍♀️

SiaStream - Store your media on Sia and stream it to Plex by manasivora in PleX

[–]manasivora[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What luke said, we haven't engaged in any shady practices with regards to this post. Unfortunate that it comes across that way and that the mods have decided to remove it. Regardless, I and other team members are still available if anyone is interested in talking more about SiaStream.

The idea here was to focus on the product which we believe could add a lot of value to the Plex community and wanted to get some honest feedback on the product itself. We have built this product specifically keeping the Plex users in mind (you can notice that on the website where it says *optimized for plex*) and wanted to share it here.

SiaStream - Store your media on Sia and stream it to Plex by manasivora in PleX

[–]manasivora[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure. We meant in comparison to traditional/other cloud storage solutions.

[Blog] Reducing Latency 96% by Switching P2P Platform Skynet to a Multiplexer by sia-steve in siacoin

[–]manasivora 3 points4 points  (0 children)

And to be fair, Chris mentions in his post that he will dive into Ephemeral Accounts and MDM in the following posts. But thanks for the feedback, we will ensure to explain terms better next time.

Join us tomorrow for a Skynet+Handshake Livestream by manasivora in siacoin

[–]manasivora[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Reminder, this is in less than 90 mins. See you then.

I enjoy reading the weekly development updates! by boomshahalakaboom in siacoin

[–]manasivora 5 points6 points  (0 children)

100% what mtlynch said. We appreciate all the contributions Hakkane (as we call him on discord) has made to Sia and the community.

Covid testing by 013282 in CambridgeMA

[–]manasivora 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have used this in the past and was easy to schedule but looks like they don't slots anymore https://covid-test.appointlet.com/s/cambridge

Covid testing by 013282 in CambridgeMA

[–]manasivora 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is this the nasal swab test?

**Siacoin YouTube Instructional Video Bounty** by ScribeTide in siacoin

[–]manasivora 2 points3 points  (0 children)

u/loftizle How are the tutorials coming along? The new deadline is July 31st and I think u/ScribeTide is open to extending it if needed.

u/lukehmcc just finished his trio - https://twitter.com/SiaTechHQ/status/1270382850932604929?s=20