A little update on Pay It Sideways 💛 I posted recently looking for people who hadn’t seen the Mini App before to test it, because I’d reached that lovely builder stage where everything was obviously intuitive… to the person who built it. 😂 The feedback was actually brilliant. People understood that something was being sent, but some of the first impressions were that it looked more like a payment/crypto product than something about human connection, “Private message of kindness” was too vague. One person initially thought the messages might be random, almost like digital fortune cookies 😂. The purpose and emotional side weren’t obvious quickly enough, simply seeing “cryptocurrency” created an immediate scam/trust barrier for someone who wasn’t familiar with crypto. Which made me realise I’d accidentally made the technology louder than the reason I built it. So I’ve changed it. Pay It Sideways is now much clearer about the actual idea: Someone writes something genuine to brighten another person’s day and sends it privately to them. They can optionally attach a little NIM as a gift — but the words are the point, the money is optional. The recipient doesn’t need a crypto wallet just to receive and read their message. I’ve now rewritten the confusing copy, brought the human/kindness element much further forward, reduced the emphasis on crypto/payment mechanics, made the person-to-person nature of the messages clearer, worked on the trust problem for people unfamiliar with crypto, added a short explainer video so people can understand the concept visually too And pushed the updated version live. https://pay-it-sideways.grand-sugar.workers.dev/first-kindness The biggest lesson for me was probably: Users don't experience your intention. They experience what you actually put on the screen. 😬😂 I knew I’d built a little human connection experiment with optional crypto. Some first-time users saw a crypto/payment thing with kindness attached.