Editing Work (section)

= What I would do differently =

Coinbend was such a complex and experimental project that I was honestly just happy to get it to work. But in terms of usability: this was the wrong approach. Coinbend had several problems that are evident by its amateurish design - worsened by a lack of options available at the time.

It used full node software for making contracts. So you had to download the chain for every coin you wanted to use. The setup process was horrible. Configuring ports and everything yourself. Waiting for the chains to update… No one is going to use software like that. To make matters worse: the order book contained race conditions so only direct client-to-client trading would have been semi-practical.

Although this prototype was far ahead of its time - the standards that users expect of software is high and this prototype didn’t meet them. Coinbend was a massive undertaking requiring software to be written that spanned network programming, financial engineering, front end UX, data scraping, applied cryptography, and much more. In the end I decided it was all too much for one engineer (my friend wasn’t a developer) and left to work a normal job.