Roadmap 2017-2022
Connecting PeopleEnabling BusinessEmpowering PeopleDiscovering ContentCreating FreedomBuilding Communities
Our Vision
- Empower millions of content creators to make a living and to gain economic and financial freedom.
- Give people access to a worldwide market of $100 billion, without the need for a bank account.
- Connect fans and buyers directly, whilst reducing transaction costs.
- Enable sex workers to promote their services in a safe environment.
- Enable customers to discover and consume adult content in a safe environment.
- Build the ecosystem for the creator economy, and make it the market leader for content discovery.
The 5 Stages Of Success
- Foundation: We already built Sharesome, the leading social discovery site for adult content, with over 1.6M monthly active users. Flame Credits are already the native currency of the network, responsible for +1,000 transactions a day.
- Growth: Sharesome has a +100% growth rate year by year. Also the amount of Flame Credits purchased month by month is growing by +20%. Our team will focus on growth in 2022.
- Decentralization: We choose not to build a 100% decentralized project from the beginning over development speed and flexibility. We start now with decentralizing all aspects of the Flame Token, later all aspects of the underlying social discovery platform.
- Scaling: There will be a time when we have to focus mainly on improving the performance of the whole network, instead of looking at decentralization or new functionalities.
- Governance: Sharesome & Flame Token are governed by a privately held company. In which way we will “Go Public” is not clear yet, but will be announce it when we enter the scaling stage.
Q4 2022 (planned)
- Content filtering in newsfeed.
- P2P sales, powered by Flame.
- Threaded comments.
- Topic discussion sections.
- Sharesome chat roulette.
- Promoted Profiles v2.
- Promoted Topics.
- Content tagging v1.
Q3 2022 (planned)
- Content tagging v0.9.
- Fullscreen browsing à la TikTok.
- Bulk tipping.
- Improved Analytics and ad system.
- Wallet v2: Major improvements for the Flame Credits Wallet on Sharesome.
- Flame Bridge v1: XFL deposits on Sharesome.
Q2 2022
- Album navigation from within the lightbox.
- Dedicated pages for /topics/new and /topics/hot.
- Analytics for story views and engagements
Q2 2022
- Album navigation from within the lightbox.
- Dedicated pages for /topics/new and /topics/hot.
- Analytics for story views and engagements
Q1 2022
- Sharesome has now stories.
- New ad formats: Popunder ads and Floating banner
- Live notifications. No more page refreshes to see new notifications
Q4 2021
- Re-Launch of XFL on SushiSwap Mainnet.
- Launch of 1XFL on SushiSwap Harmony.
- Launch of the Liquidity Provider Subsidy Program.
- Launch of the XFL HODL Program.
- Implementing new anti-pam measures
- Disabled paid chats: Chats are free now
Q3 2021
- Monthly active users (MAU) now at 1.6M
- Launch of Sharesome Pro containing an ad-free app experience, a special profile badge, and priority support. Sharesome Pro is available through a subscription service for 1,000 Flame Credits a month, or 10,000 Flame Credits a year.
- Tab for original content (OC) on the newsfeed
- Re-Launch of the #SharesomeLove store:
https://sharesomelove.com/ - Discovery phase for NFTs started.
- Preparations for the move from Uniswap to SushiSwap started.
Q2 2021
- Launch of the Sharesome Ad marketplace with more than 2M ad views a day.
- Launch of the Sharesome CPM program for key account ad clients.
- Improvements for content moderation.
- Launch of the USDC/XFL trading pair on Uniswap.
- Announcing the Liquidity Provider Subsidy Program.
Q1 2021
- Targeting for promoted posts.
- Implementing of “Seamless user registration” workflow.
- Improvements for the news feed.
- Improved feed loading speed on mobile.
- Redesigned share menu.
- Improved video controls and autoplay.
Q4 2020
- Introduction of Sharesome Analytics for users.
- Major performance improvements.
- New notifications infrastructure.
Q3 2020
- Introduction of “burst posting”Promoted posts work now straight from the postbox
- Introduction of blocking topics
- Added promoted posts in the “Best of the day”
- Launch of the “Sharesome for business” program
Q2 2020
- Launch of the Sharesome Progressive Web App (Ad Sharesome to your home screen)
- Introduction of the new “Discover page”
- Improvements of the search function
- Improvements to the topic recommendations
- Introducing “Promoted posts”
- Support for unlimited promoted profiles
- Moving Sharesome to bare metal servers
- Introducing post views statistics
Q1 2020
- Introducing “sending images” in the chat
- New feed: “Best of the day”
- Improved video controls
- Post view stats (See how many times a post is viewed)
Q4 2019
- Improved performance of video processing
- Improvements in browser performance
Q3 2019
- Redis-based user and topic feeds
- Promoted profiles accessible for all users
- Added Merchandise shop to the site
- New record: Fixed 235 bugs
- Introducing “Drafts”: Save posts for later publishing
- Introducing “Signup & Login with Twitter”
Q2 2019
- Launch of Sharesome as “Single-Page Application”
- Split of notifications into separate sections
- Improved topic moderation logs
- Launch of “Sharesome Chat”
- Introducing “Topic moderation” tools
- Introducing of “Promoted profiles”
Q1 2019
- Introducing “Queuing & Scheduled posts”
Q4 2018
- We are leaving stealth mode
- Launching “Tumblr imports”
2017-2018
The founding team meets and built a first prototype of a social network for the adult industry. This initial MVP (MINIMUM VIABLE PRODUCT) was launched as Pornfyre v0.9 in closed alpha. First stars onboard organically and we start our learning curve.
The team sees the potential to go mainstream with the platform, as also SFW content is uploaded to the platform. We re-designed the brand, acquired the domain sharesome.com and re-launched as Sharesome. Sharesome is the natural evolution of Pornfyre with a modern design, new features, and a “mainstream” name.
We bring Blockchain and social media together by introducing Flame Credits as the native token for Sharesome. Fully integrated on Sharesome, Flame Credits are used for tipping.