I want to share my vision for the future of the developer experience with Guild. By focusing on developers as first-class citizens in our ecosystem, we can build a robust community and foster the creation of amazing applications on top of Guild.


1. Building a Developer and App Ecosystem

I believe we can build a great developer and app ecosystem around Guild. One idea is to emphasize "Build on Guild" as a slogan—it rhymes and highlights that developers can build on top of Guild, not just use its existing UI. Having our own dedicated X account will be so helpful here because it shows how serious we are about prioritizing developers, not just community events. (I secured the @BuildOnGuild account)

We also need to have a dedicated Telegram group for developers enthusiastic about building on top of Guild. And we should dogfood our own Guild by figuring out how we can use Guild itself to create a meritocratic, levels-based developer ecosystem.

2. Launching a Big Bang Campaign to Get The Dev Ecosystem Going

Let's stimulate development with incentives. ONCHAIN is a token that didn't start explicitly attached to Guild, but I know Raz is thinking a lot about how to leverage the token in a useful way for Guild's goals. I think it's a great token to experiment with rewards for building useful applications on top of Guild.

Let’s make the Guildathon a reality:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hr36i8pUEzSGSHY_keACNbedtRsXePgpUZr-ag5zF0o/edit?tab=t.0

3. Having Staff Dedicated to Supporting Developers

Before it becomes ridiculously obvious that Guild is a great piece of infrastructure for apps that can be successful on their own, we really need to stimulate growth and handhold people, encouraging them with incentives and community support. Let's make sure we have people (like me) who are assigned to the responsibility of celebrating and championing those building on top of Guild—basically being the customer support representatives for developers. If the API is structured weirdly, if the docs aren't great, if there's downtime, or if there are any issues with the developer experience, people like me will be helping make sure that all those issues are documented and prioritized on the backlog.

4. Improving Documentation and Resources

We also need to make sure that our documentation is really good and emphasizes how much we are encouraging people to build on Guild. So let's create a developer portal. Right now, it just says all developers of Guild are centralized in Hungary. I think that's going to evolve as Guild becomes more of an ecosystem that, yes, has a centralized core team but also a robust community of people outside of that team building on top of Guild and being independently successful because of it.

5. Ongoing Incentivizes for Developers to Build Useful Integrations