We’ve just had our annual strategy session with the Street Art Cities core team, where we discussed what’s up next for our platform, and how we can better serve the community.
As always those sessions are equally exciting, intense, fun and enjoyable.
@Edwin_Muller joined us for one of the days, and provided some super helpful insights, thanks for being there! On Friday, we also had our regularly scheduled Country Managers meeting, which we for once were able to join from the same spot:
Roadmap for the second half of the year
We wanted to give a quick overview of what we’ve decided as the priorities for the development of the platform.
These are the main projects we’re planning to focus on in the coming months:
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Official Partner Dashboard v2
Now that we have more official partners than ever (hello Phoenix and Glasgow!), we want to spend more time making sure we show them whatever they need to see the impact of street art (and Street Art Cities) on their town. -
Supporters tier launch
We’ve known for a while that the way the current app works with payments is confusing and limiting, so we’re changing the dynamic (more below). -
Hunter onboarding flow improvements
Based on feedback from our Country Managers (thanks @sgremy and others!), and about a year experience with some new signup management tools, we’re making some changes that should both make it easier to get started as a hunter, and to manage signups as a Country Manager. -
Search infrastructure
Our platform has grown massively over the last year, and we’ve realised we need to step up our search functionality, both for the website and the app, but also to enable some new Hunter and Country Manager tools. Stay tuned!
We also want to process some feedback we’ve heard from various people over the last few weeks, and will of course let you know about any changes through the Platform updates section of the forum. 
Launching SAC Supporters
The old subscription system in the Street Art Cities mobile app was confusing and limiting, and meant that many people would use the website on their phones instead.
We’ve wanted to revamp this for a while, and make the app more accessible. Subscriptions in the app are an important revenue stream for us though, as they allow us to pay for the hosting of the platform, and our developers (myself and Noa). We’re not fully covering costs, but app subscriptions help get us in the right direction.
That’s why we’ve rebranded the app subscription to Street Art Cities Supporters. Subscribing helps support the platform and the community.
It still also unlocks a bunch of additional features, but you’re no longer limited to what cities you can access if you don’t pay.
If you’re a supporter, you get a little purple badge next to your name, and a spot in our supporters list.
In the future, we also want to add additional perks for our supporters, like discounts on merch, once we re-launch our merch store.
The new supporter tier will be available in the iPhone and Android apps from next week, and we’d love to hear your thoughts about this direction!
, when they join?