And… a full out miracle of collaboration!
Normally, to develop an app that can handle thousands of users and gigabytes of data, companies spend tens, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars. We’ve been able to reach this land mark, with zero budget. That’s right… no budget, no investors, nothing!
Oh there’s been costs. And there’s been hard work. And there’s been help! First, every month, our users have been working hard making their ecobricks. Every month they’ve trusted us and our buggy, slow and clunky beta app and logged their ecobricks. Every month, their use of the system has helped us make it better. And every month, we’ve reached out and ask the financial help of our users, our friend and our family to pay the bill and keep the app online, and the dream alive. Because, for the last year, that's all it has been, a dream: another app idea with hardly any users or usage, no income stream, a clunky interface, and no solid proof of what it could do.
But not any more! Thank you so much to all who have contributed over the last year of our development to help us cover the finances. The database and server costs come in monthly at 120$ or so– by far the biggest and most daunting bill for the GEA right now. Thanks to your help-- all personal donations, 100$ here, 20$ there, 10$ a little later... we've kept 1000 kgs of plastic from reaching the oceans, the rivers and the fields. Thanks to you, we’re going to keep sooooo much more out of the biosphere.
Yes… 1000kgs of plastic is a drop in the bucket of even a small city’s plastic generation. But… its a start. Its what inventors and developers call… proof of concept. And now that we have proved that we can keep one ton of plastic out of the biosphere, we’re on track, to take it to the next level. We’ve now turned off the bumpy country road, onto the express way! The foot is coming off the brake, and onto the gas. We are now set to put the pedal to the metal and dramatically vamp up the plastic sequestration.
And its already begun. The acceleration has been rather dramatic. We actually passed the 1000kg mark a week ago on GoBrik. However, we’ve been so busy keep up with the exponential growth in app usage, that its been all but impossible to make this post!
We’re incredibly excited about what lays in store. As our friends who have been logging their ecobricks on the platform have begun to suspect… there’s a lot more to our app than just logging ecobricks. Soon, real soon, we’re excited to release the remaining two pillars of the app’s functionality.
These include nothing short of revolutionary new means of valuing plastic. You have heard of blockchain and cryptocurrency technology? Well, we are set to launch our own manually-powered, community-authenticated, full-transparency coin. The currency will be based on a value that we can all agree on: the absence of plastic in the biosphere. Best of all, unlike traditional cryptocurrencies, it will not depend on computers doing meaningless work, nor will it be a store of value that makes already rich people richer. Instead, it will be based on meaning-full manual work, and it will be accessible to anyone with a bamboo stick and a smart phone.
In direct connection to this new coin system, we’re set to launch a brand new way to exchange ecobricks. Got ecobricks? Need ecobricks? Soon, connecting ecobrickers with builders, transferring ecobricks for projects, and exchanging ecobricks for cash or barter, will be a breeze.
Thank you again to all our users, supporters, and ecobrickers around the world who have helped us get this far. We couldn't have done it without you.
Unlike recycling, or other initiatives that remove plastic from the ocean or beach and put it somewhere else, ecobricks transform the plastic into a resuable, locally practical building block. Ecobricking reduces the net surface area of plastic by a factor of 10,000 ensuring that it will not degrade into the biosphere.
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Albatross around the world agree: 1000kg of plastic out of the biosphere is a good thing!
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