Create a sample application category in App.co

[moxiegirl]

For OKR 2, the walk a developer through end-to-end, we need a category on App.co where users can drop their completed sample application. See the forum for detail on the outline.

So, when they add their Dapp to app.co they can get a sense of completion. Also, adds a category where users can see how many people completed the samples.

This category shouldn't come up in a regular search of app.co and could perhaps be displayed on a special page: "see who has tried our tutorial" or something.

[pstan26]

Thank you for adding this Mary

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For OKR 2, the walk a developer through end-to-end, we need a category on App.co where users can drop their completed sample application. See the forum for detail on the outline.

So, when they add their Dapp to app.co they can get a sense of completion. Also, adds a category where users can see how many people completed the samples.

This category shouldn't come up in a regular search of app.co and could perhaps be displayed on a special page: "see who has tried our tutorial" or something.

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[markmhendrickson]

@hstove can we add this category easily without listing it on the homepage?

[markmhendrickson]

@moxiegirl Do you have a preference for what we call this category (e.g. "Sample Blockstack apps")? And mind providing a link to the forum content you mention?

[hstove]

can we add this category easily without listing it on the homepage?

Well, we only show a curated list of 6 categories on the homepage, so by default a new category won't go there.

If we don't want this category to show up on the /categories page, or in the search, we can make that happen, but it requires just a little code. I think they should be discoverable in some way through app.co, though.

[moxiegirl]

@markmhx the forum is in private space so I didn't link it here. It is linked in your recent App.co OKR doc. Animal Kingdom App would be my preferred name for the category. Just having that as a category name would be a bit of whimsy which I think is fine. Also, a name like that would encourage people to look at it --- if they didn't know what was already.

Non-whimsy, your "Sample Blockstack Apps" would work also.

@hstove OK. So we don't have to worry about it showing up on the home page. 👍 Discoverability could actually be handled by the tutorial. In other words, the last page has them adding the application to app.co. I can put a link to the category from the tutorial. Then, perhaps at some point from App.co we can "advertise" the category Visit the Animal Kingoms or a mention.

Animal Kingdom, BTW, is the name of the sample application that @larrysalibra came up with. It is a really neato name and a cool concept for our sample.

[markmhendrickson]

I don't think it's a big deal if this category shows up on the categories page, but @hstove feel free to tweak the code to hide it if you want.

[moxiegirl]

@markmhx @jeffdomke This is the one issue that we need to get completed so that the Zero to Dapp tutorial can go live.

cc: @pstan26

[moxiegirl]

Just to be clear the task is:

• Category "Sample Blockstack Application" should appear in the drop down -- last is fine
• A Sample Application category page should be available that lists these so users can check.
• This page should not appear on as a category on the home page or return from the search
• This page should be able to be linked to either thru search or via a dedicated link

[hstove]

Hey Mary, this is updated and should be deployed in around 10 minutes. I didn't hide it from our Categories page: https://app.co/categories , which I think is fine right now. We can always hide it later if we choose to.

[moxiegirl]

Wonderful! Thanks @hstove for the super quick turnaround.