Are you eager to launch your breakthrough project or feature as soon as possible? You’re racing to complete the code and perform final integration tests and you’re close to having your valuable product ready for your community, right?
Let me keep you away from the claws of the “Confidence Cyclope” by checking a few things that each cyclopean eye is looking for.
Security Eye
- If your platform includes smart contracts, have they been audited? How do you synchronize your delivery timelines with audit timelines? Are the contracts new or do they have new features? If so, has the audit team reviewed these contracts previously, allowing for a faster audit?
- Has your platform undergone a security review or penetration test before? Did it assess both your Web2 and Web3 components?
- Have you considered establishing a bug bounty program?
Technical Eye
- Do your unit, integration, and end-to-end tests cover the main functionalities? Do they test both happy and unhappy paths? Has any high-demand module been stress-tested, and its performance checked?
- Are you aware of how good is your test coverage?
- Are you creating APIs and/or SDKs? Do they include detailed explanations for exposed functions and working examples? Are they easy to use? Do they strike the right balance between versatility and ease of use?
- Do you have public repositories? Do they include clear, high-level explanations in their READMEs, along with installation steps, test execution procedures, licensing information, and contribution guidelines?
- Are you using the most appropriate test framework or documentation tools? Do you have time to explore the best options?
- Have you created and maintained local test environments, devnet, and testnet environments? Are they sufficiently representative of mainnet?
- Does your CI/CD pipeline include tests to ensure nothing breaks when a new feature is added?
- Are you using Dockerization to streamline environment setup?
Community Eye
- Does your community have access to a site showcasing your exciting new features, quick-start guides, how-to procedures, conceptual explanations, schematic diagrams, and FAQs?
- Do you know your community well? Is it clear what types of users you have? Have you considered how to address each group? For example, does a tech investor need the same information as an integration developer or contributor? Is information easy to navigate from high-level overviews to more detailed specifics?
- Are you maintaining social media channels with the latest updates about your platform?
- Does your platform have videos explaining your most important features?
- If you have or plan to have contributors, do you have contributor guidelines? Is the code clear enough? Does it include technical documentation? Is this documentation linked to the code, allowing easy navigation between code, technical docs, and overview docs?
Final Question
Let me ask one last crucial question: If these questions resonate with you, does your team have the skills and time to handle all these tasks?
Every company and project is driven by goals and focuses on the “core” activities that drive success. Often, complementary services are outsourced when the need becomes clear. This approach feels right, as your team should concentrate on building the exciting features that will engage your community with your superb product or platform.
In this ecosystem, all projects and companies need to demonstrate serious work to build confidence. Engaging documentation, thorough testing, security checks and a strong digital presence are all key to achieving this.
After all, it’s all about confidence in Web3, isn’t it?
