Meeting Date: Fri May 22 2026
Source: Google Doc Link
Summary
Meeting reviewed database stability, development resources, and strategic roadmap planning for the We Buddhist application.
Infrastructure and Development Strategy
Database connectivity was restored and 5 new developers were hired to accelerate feature implementation. A dedicated testing app will launch during the Ladakh coding retreat.
Product Roadmap and Features
The team prioritized mantra accumulation, mind training, and a new creator homepage. This homepage will launch for group profiles within 2 weeks.
Influencer Engagement Planning
The team decided to host a structured demo session during the Pune influencer masterclass. This replaces past passive attendance with proactive tech presentations.
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Suggested Next Steps
- [Tenzin Palkyi] Send Meeting Minutes: Distribute the notes from the meeting to Evan Yerburgh.
- [The group] Prepare Masterclass Presentation: Prepare a formal presentation and demo session for the influencer masterclass scheduled in July. Ensure the technical team is ready to guide attendees through the V Buddhist app capabilities.
- [Evan Yerburgh] Invite Mauricio: Coordinate the attendance of Mauricio at the next meeting to discuss brand guidelines. Facilitate a feedback session between the designer and the content creator group regarding social media tone.
- [Evan Yerburgh] Share Testing Links: Provide the testing application link to the influencers and Norbu Tsering to allow for content review and feedback before public release.
Details
- Meeting Cadence and Attendance: Evan Yerburgh and Tenzin Palkyi discussed establishing a recurring bi-weekly meeting to maintain a consistent cadence for updates and syncing. The team reviewed travel logistics for various developers heading to a coding retreat in Ladakh, and they identified that this meeting structure was requested during a recent sprint retrospective to ensure better team communication (00:00:00).
- App Database and Connectivity Issues: Evan Yerburgh explained a recent outage where app content became inaccessible due to a connection break during a database migration (00:03:04). While the connection was successfully reestablished for Android, iOS users were expected to experience a delay until the following day; Evan Yerburgh confirmed that user data was not erased, only disconnected, and user progress would resume upon app updates (00:04:00).
- User Feedback and Security Concerns: Tenzin Palkyi highlighted previous security concerns regarding the spread of scam APK files that could lead to financial loss, although they confirmed that no losses had occurred (00:07:04). The group discussed using the Discord UX feedback channel for handling new feature requests, such as the audio feature requested by users of the Chupak Daily (00:08:01).
- Development Resources and Speed: Evan Yerburgh reported that five new staff members have been hired, including part-time Flutter front-end developers and back-end support (00:08:48). The development strategy involves testing features like audio on the website first—where developers can implement them rapidly—before rolling them out to the app (00:09:43).
- Influencer Masterclass in Pune: Tenzin Palkyi proposed that the upcoming July influencer masterclass in Pune should move beyond mere exposure for the tech team (00:10:33). Tenzin Palkyi and the team agreed to plan a structured demo session where the tech team guides participants through the We Buddhist app, ensuring a more substantial agenda than previous conventions where the tech team's presence was limited (00:11:26).
- Content Feedback and Benchmarking: Yash Dixit provided feedback on the Abhidharma content, noting that while the Tibetan community is less interested in Abhidharma, they appreciate the dedication and intention features (00:12:20). The team discussed using Sutta Central as a benchmark for user experience and aesthetics, aiming for a “casual five minutes a day” experience for their own app (00:13:18).
- Mantra Accumulation and App Features: Yash Dixit shared insights from the Drupa app, which features a chanting function and has successfully tracked over 100 million mantras accumulated by 3,700 participants. This inspired a discussion on incorporating similar mantra accumulation and daily prayer chanting features into the We Buddhist app to cater to community habits (00:14:25).
- Strategic Roadmap: Evan Yerburgh outlined the development vision, which prioritizes a study series, followed by daily practice, mantra collection, mind training, and a meditation timer (00:15:28). The long-term plan is to build out these core experiences, which will eventually support influencer-led content and smaller plans (00:16:41).
- We Buddhist Connect Features: Evan Yerburgh demonstrated the “We Buddhist Connect” page, which includes profiles for groups, influencers, and teachers, allowing them to showcase plans, descriptions, and social media links (00:18:39). The team aims to launch the creator homepage within two weeks, initially focusing on group profiles before expanding to individual influencers (00:21:09).
- Analytics and Monetization: The team has begun using analytics to monitor daily active users and track where they originate, noting approximately 70 active users across the app and website combined (00:22:47). Regarding potential monetization, Evan Yerburgh noted that a payment system is not a current priority, though a donation feature might be considered in the future (00:24:42).
- Creator Access and Content Management: Norbu Tsering inquired about providing creators with dedicated access to contribute content. Evan Yerburgh clarified that the current approach is invite-only, where the team will provide creators access to the We Buddhist Connect app to build their plans and potentially embed them on their own websites (00:26:33).
- Professional Presentation at Masterclass: Norbu Tsering emphasized that for the upcoming masterclass, the tech team must be fully prepared to present, as previous instances involved the team remaining passive (00:28:03). Evan Yerburgh acknowledged this, noting the importance of bridging the gap between developers and users to ensure the tech team understands the value and necessity of requested features (00:29:13).
- Rebranding and Future Coordination: Evan Yerburgh shared that a rebrand is currently underway with a designer, Mauricio, involving a new logo, colors, and a brand book to establish consistent guidelines. The team discussed bringing in the designer to meet with them in the future to receive feedback and tailor the tone for different audiences (00:32:13).
- Testing and Quality Assurance: Addressing recurring issues, Evan Yerburgh confirmed that the team will set up a dedicated testing app, which will be available during the coding retreat in Ladakh (00:35:39). This testing environment is intended to allow creators and influencers to provide feedback on content and usability before features are released to the public (00:36:46).
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Meeting Transcript
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May 22, 2026
#Meeting WeBuddhist Product Update & Ideation Meeting - Transcript
00:00:00
Yash Dixit: Hello. Good afternoon.
CommOps Manager: Hello. Hi everyone. Hello. Hi Evan.
Evan Yerburgh: Hey,
CommOps Manager: How are you?
Evan Yerburgh: I'm good. Pretty good. Pretty busy, but
CommOps Manager: I know. Okay,
Evan Yerburgh: okay.
CommOps Manager: let me log out from here because Gemini has got to take notes and I'll join for the other
Tenzin Palkyi: Okay. All right. Uh Evan, do you have more people joining from your site?
Evan Yerburgh: Uh not today. Uh and he's flying from Bangkok to Delhi today.
Tenzin Palkyi: I just got to know that he's coming to
Evan Yerburgh: And yeah,
Tenzin Palkyi: India.
Evan Yerburgh: he's arriving at like 4:00 IST to Delhi and then
Tenzin Palkyi: Okay.
Evan Yerburgh: um he's going Yeah. I think tonight he takes a bus to Manali and and then he
Tenzin Palkyi: All right.
Evan Yerburgh: and some of the developers are driving from Manali to Ladak um
Tenzin Palkyi: Okay.
Evan Yerburgh: tomorrow. Yeah.
Tenzin Palkyi: All
Evan Yerburgh: To prepare for the coding retreat.
00:02:00
Tenzin Palkyi: right.
Evan Yerburgh: And so the other senior developers are in Beir in
Tenzin Palkyi: Okay.
Evan Yerburgh: Hima and they're driving to Manali today to meet NC tomorrow.
Tenzin Palkyi: Oh gosh, it's all over the place.
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah. So yeah, and then people are flying all over. But yeah, so right now today's only means but I think if we get this Yeah.
Tenzin Palkyi: Okay. All right. More than half.
Evan Yerburgh: If we just like put this as a recurring meeting every two weeks, I think it's good to get the um the cadence.
Tenzin Palkyi: Definitely.
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah.
Tenzin Palkyi: Yes.
Evan Yerburgh: So that we get in the rhythm of always meeting and updating and syncing.
Tenzin Palkyi: Okay.
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah.
Tenzin Palkyi: All right. So I think like uh first how it started was uh recently we had a sprint retrospective and during that time we had like one of our team member giving feedback that it'll be really good if in
Evan Yerburgh: Yep.
Tenzin Palkyi: case like we can more uh have like a once in a week meeting uh just to sync with what are the updates or if in case there are any specific things that you guys are working so that uh we'll just stay a little informed uh so okay uh so uh
00:03:04
Evan Yerburgh: Okay.
Tenzin Palkyi: Chori are you there? Okay. All right. Uh so Evan uh Okay.
Norbu Tsering: Yes. Is this
Tenzin Palkyi: All right. So, Evan, for today, uh will it be possible if in case like you can guide us through the app and let us know if in case there's any new updates or anything that might be there?
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah. Um, I'm not sure if you saw my message in the Discord.
Tenzin Palkyi: Oh, no. I didn't know. I'm sorry.
Evan Yerburgh: uh like all
Yash Dixit: actually I cannot hear Evan
Tenzin Palkyi: Uh-huh.
Evan Yerburgh: the content data from from the from one database to a new
Tenzin Palkyi: Uh-huh.
Evan Yerburgh: database.
Tenzin Palkyi: Okay. All right. Uh,
Norbu Tsering: Yeah,
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah.
Tenzin Palkyi: okay.
Norbu Tsering: actually I saw
Evan Yerburgh: So the No,
Tenzin Palkyi: Are you talking about the connect page,
Norbu Tsering: that.
Tenzin Palkyi: Evan?
Evan Yerburgh: no, I'm talking about the whole app.
Tenzin Palkyi: Okay.
Norbu Tsering: Yeah,
Tenzin Palkyi: All right.
00:04:00
Norbu Tsering: it's gone.
Tenzin Palkyi: I didn't see the message then.
Evan Yerburgh: So yeah,
Tenzin Palkyi: Uh-huh. Okay. All right. Mhm.
Evan Yerburgh: it's we lost I mean we didn't lose while we trans transferred from the old database to the new database. We lost the connection from the de database to the app and then now we reestablished it and so if you have Android it it works again but if you have iOS you have to wait until tomorrow probably.
Norbu Tsering: Even
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah. So the app all the content was down for now it's been
Norbu Tsering: what do you mean by loss? What do you mean?
Evan Yerburgh: like no we didn't lose anything we
Norbu Tsering: Is it like big thing?
Evan Yerburgh: just lost the connection like just the code code says like this is the plan
Norbu Tsering: Okay.
Evan Yerburgh: ID if and then so yeah yeah yeah I was very scared
Norbu Tsering: That scared me.
Evan Yerburgh: yesterday but basically like the app says like hey I want this plan and the database had a different number or something like this and So it's every it can't find any plans.
00:05:00
Evan Yerburgh: So after they finished moving the database now they have to like re u connect everything and then like send the app to the app store again and then you have the users everyone who uses the app has to update the app to get the content in the app connected again. Yeah. So um basically yeah for Android users now
Norbu Tsering: I have one question even I have one question.
Evan Yerburgh: it's okay. Yeah.
Norbu Tsering: What if uh through my email that I've already logged into this apps and I went through some of the plan let's say I'm in J5 plan right so the when get updated when I log in through the same
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah.
Norbu Tsering: email does it resume to the uh JF or do I need to continue from the
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah.
Norbu Tsering: first okay
Evan Yerburgh: Uh it will remove I mean sorry it will resume.
Norbu Tsering: okay
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah, all your data is there. It's just like in the database, but on your app side, it's there's a disconnect between the app and your data.
00:06:05
Evan Yerburgh: So then it's saying like where's like no size plan? I can't find it. I can't find it. And now once we re they rewired it, it's like okay, now we can see the same data again. Like no data was re erased. It just wasn't connecting from the database to the app. Yeah.
Norbu Tsering: Very Very good luck for you guys.
Evan Yerburgh: It's like going to Google Drive and Yeah. Yeah.
Norbu Tsering: Very good luck for you guys.
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah. This is our first like major like outage or like big problem and like and she was flying from Taipei to Bangkok. So me and like I think Gabbor like one of the volunteer developers he gave like 15 points of like feedback on the app yesterday and his last point was whoa now there's no content.
Tenzin Palkyi: Oh
Evan Yerburgh: So I checked I checked the content there's no content and so I just called the two lead developers and said like we have to
Tenzin Palkyi: gosh.
Evan Yerburgh: fix this right now like so
00:07:04
Tenzin Palkyi: Right. Must must have been a jump scare moment for you
Evan Yerburgh: there's yeah definitely we're like oh
Tenzin Palkyi: though.
Evan Yerburgh: no like no users can use the app like what really happened I had called the developer and said like hey did you see the app is what are you doing he's like oh I was changing the database from here to
Tenzin Palkyi: Uhhuh.
Evan Yerburgh: here something Oh.
Tenzin Palkyi: We I mean for a creative team we recently also had like a little jump scare moment when like a community group was uh someone sent like APK files where like once you um
Evan Yerburgh: Mhm.
Tenzin Palkyi: once you uh open the file like all the money in your account gets debited. Yeah. So it was Yeah.
Evan Yerburgh: Hello.
Tenzin Palkyi: It was such a scary moment for us because I mean nowadays like in India itself like more scams are going on especially like through big groups.
Evan Yerburgh: Uh, all right.
Tenzin Palkyi: So we also had like a moment of jump scare but fortunately like no one's
Evan Yerburgh: Oh.
00:08:01
Tenzin Palkyi: lost their money. Yeah.
Evan Yerburgh: Uh, that's
Tenzin Palkyi: Yeah. All right. Okay.
Evan Yerburgh: good.
Tenzin Palkyi: Uh uh Evan apart from that I just have a question. So sometimes like people uh do send us messages in WhatsApp regarding like new fe features
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah.
Tenzin Palkyi: or if in case like for example recently in the group someone asked for the audio feature if in case like it works in the app because it works in the website I believe.
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah. Oh, yeah.
Tenzin Palkyi: So like how do we proceed with this if in case we get we get like um in the future if we
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah.
Tenzin Palkyi: get questions uh do we send it in the discord channel or
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah.
Tenzin Palkyi: like
Evan Yerburgh: You can send it to the Discord channel, like the UX channel.
Tenzin Palkyi: UX.
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah,
Tenzin Palkyi: All right.
Evan Yerburgh: there's like a UX feedback channel for the website.
Tenzin Palkyi: Okay.
Evan Yerburgh: Are you talking about the ones for the chupak daily?
Tenzin Palkyi: Yeah.
00:08:48
Evan Yerburgh: Okay.
Tenzin Palkyi: Yeah.
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah.
Tenzin Palkyi: I think for there it's working.
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah.
Tenzin Palkyi: That's why they were asking for the audio feature in the phone. That's why.
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah. So I can give you a little background.
Tenzin Palkyi: Mhm.
Evan Yerburgh: Um since I think I think one big development for us internally
Tenzin Palkyi: Uhhuh. Uhhuh.
Evan Yerburgh: is that like we had we moved two developers from the BDRC like project over to yeah over to
Tenzin Palkyi: Fire. Uhhuh.
Evan Yerburgh: the and those guys are really fast.
Tenzin Palkyi: Okay, that's
Evan Yerburgh: So NC like Wang from Tibetaka said like oh could you put it also on a website?
Tenzin Palkyi: good.
Evan Yerburgh: So then NT asked them, can you make a website? And they make the website in like one day. So they're really fast.
Tenzin Palkyi: Hello
Evan Yerburgh: Um and then we also hired um two part-time like Flutter like front end developers for the app and then one more developer for like the website
Tenzin Palkyi: Uhhuh.
00:09:43
Evan Yerburgh: and back ends. So now we have basically five new people. So we're going to start moving faster. But the strategy is the two fastest guys are on the website.
Tenzin Palkyi: Uhhuh.
Evan Yerburgh: So we test out the features like audio before like the team's like,
Tenzin Palkyi: Okay.
Evan Yerburgh: “Oh, audio is so difficult. It's going to take us like one month. I don't know. Can we do the audio?” Blah blah blah. And then the the guys can do the audio in one day. They just say, “Oh, we need audio.
Tenzin Palkyi: Oh,
Evan Yerburgh: No problem.” And then there's there inside Yeah.
Tenzin Palkyi: are they from outside or are they Oh,
Evan Yerburgh: I don't know if you know Kungang.
Tenzin Palkyi: yeah. I mean,
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah.
Tenzin Palkyi: he said I'm not surprised.
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah.
Tenzin Palkyi: That's good.
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah. So come back like,
Tenzin Palkyi: He get Yeah.
Evan Yerburgh: “Oh, no problem. Okay, I do it.” Yes.
Tenzin Palkyi: Yeah.
Evan Yerburgh: And now because he can mentor the guys on the app that said like, “I don't know if we can do it.” He's like,
00:10:33
Evan Yerburgh: “Oh, yeah, do this, this, this.” Okay, done.
Tenzin Palkyi: That's that's
Evan Yerburgh: So yeah, so we're so the features should come faster and we're like leading with the website,
Tenzin Palkyi: Uhhuh.
Evan Yerburgh: leading with Konam and then he can show the app team like how to like develop new features.
Tenzin Palkyi: Okay. All right. Okay. All right. So, perfect.
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah.
Tenzin Palkyi: So, if in case we have like any questions, we'll just send it in the discord later on and then we can answer uh move forward with answering them.
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah.
Tenzin Palkyi: So another question that I have Evan uh so uh doing one of the main thing that we are focusing right now is the influencer master class in Pune and we're going to have it in July
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah.
Tenzin Palkyi: itself and G Angela and I earlier had a conversation of uh bringing like few
Evan Yerburgh: Mhm.
Tenzin Palkyi: tech people to the master class that was actually G Angela's idea but then for him it was
Evan Yerburgh: Mhm.
Tenzin Palkyi: more like a exposure for to get for them to get exposure but I feel like
00:11:26
Evan Yerburgh: Oh
Tenzin Palkyi: um like the location itself like um rather than just giving them exposure we can also have
Evan Yerburgh: yeah.
Tenzin Palkyi: like a session like a demo session to view this uh so I'll also like if in case
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah.
Tenzin Palkyi: like in the in the next coming week we can also plan on like uh doing like a little demo session where like few of them can even talk and then guide the participants through the V Buddhist app as well. So yeah,
Evan Yerburgh: That's
Tenzin Palkyi: last time like during the convention they did come for the convention that they did get the
Evan Yerburgh: good.
Tenzin Palkyi: exposure but it was like um like the goal was not substantial like uh the reason why they came and then the main agenda was not there. So it was just like vaguely vague agenda why they were actually there. So if in case like they're going to come we're spending a lot of money then I think definitely we can work
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah. Yeah.
Tenzin Palkyi: on a better yeah session with them.
00:12:20
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah.
Tenzin Palkyi: So one and then another thing yes if in case you have
Evan Yerburgh: Okay.
Tenzin Palkyi: like any feedback from the community regarding aidama any dharmapata all of this.
Yash Dixit: Mhm.
Tenzin Palkyi: Yes.
Yash Dixit: Uh like uh like for the Abi Dharma you know majority of our you know content creators are from the Tibetan community.
Evan Yerburgh: Yes.
Yash Dixit: So lot of the people are just like they are not much interested into Abi Dharma and few
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah. Yeah.
Yash Dixit: of people who give us the feedbacks like Achel was handling it.
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah.
Yash Dixit: So it was just like they are totally okay with it but one like girl I think what was her name she was talking about that voice and if if it is there like just like suta central so when
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah.
Yash Dixit: people compare abidharma they will bring suta central in suta central we are having that voice
Evan Yerburgh: Uh
Yash Dixit: option right so for for that uh that's the option and the version doubt
Evan Yerburgh: yeah.
Yash Dixit: like many people were asking what version of abidharma you were asking so again until I had cleared that what
00:13:18
Evan Yerburgh: Oh yeah.
Yash Dixit: version is being used so people are okay with that. I think that's the Sri Lankan version of the Abid Dharma.
Evan Yerburgh: Okay. Okay.
Yash Dixit: So rest of the things are actually uh you know pretty much fine like it is updating like I I also see that it is updating you know on the daily basis and in the abha people are actually happy you are
Evan Yerburgh: text.
Yash Dixit: having the you know you know set the intention and the dedication just like the Tibetan
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah.
Yash Dixit: tradition. So it is something actually really good which is which people
Evan Yerburgh: Mhm. Okay. Okay.
Yash Dixit: making.
Evan Yerburgh: That sounds good. That's also really good to know that central central is the like kind of benchmark. Yeah. Because Yeah. I've looked at it for like years and it um now that we're starting like the way of the bodhic sappa in a year um what is it um 84,000 has like a similar page and then sadra has a similar page and they're kind of like our benchmarks for that but not for like we want we want to be more casual like sutra central is like like an academic like place where you go to study and but So,
00:14:25
Yash Dixit: Exactly
Evan Yerburgh: we're looking to these ones not like more for like the aesthetics a little bit, but like maybe user experience, but we we need to make it the casual like five minutes a day version.
Yash Dixit: like uh I mean have you checked Drupa app recently?
Evan Yerburgh: But, uh, no, that's it. Let's take
Yash Dixit: Like recently the dupa app had added uh you know the chanting feature so
Evan Yerburgh: a Okay.
Yash Dixit: yeah that you can practice like you must check check it out I don't know why is not
Evan Yerburgh: Yep.
Yash Dixit: a like due to that background so yeah uh till now like that community page is telling there are 3,700 participants and total more than you know one cr like 100 like 1 cr is the 100
Evan Yerburgh: 100.
Yash Dixit: million 100 million you know chanting Amitabas.
Evan Yerburgh: Oh, okay. Oh, that many monsters. Okay.
Yash Dixit: So yes so so that is actually a new feature like Noab is having that
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Yash Dixit: mantra accumulation and Tibetans are very much fond of you know I see in the Facebook group they will do
00:15:28
Evan Yerburgh: All right. Yeah. Okay.
Yash Dixit: accumulation in in every full moon and every you know you know dharmapala day and or dark tiny day all of these days. So we can have something like that in our app.
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah. Yeah. I can share a little bit like of Ant's vision um for this because we have we have one something similar plans. Um just a sec. basically um NCC is like I think it's maybe it's an exceller personas that he's going after. They're more like use cases but like the first one is like studying like these series. So he wants to make like this experience really good. go first like slowly slowly trying to get better just for like the abidha and dharmap and the way of the bodhic sappa and that's like the first one. Um the second is like daily practice we have like your daily prayers in there and we can like make it easy to find and make good collections and then have audio so that you can be chanting like doing your daily prayers with somebody with your sa or your teacher or like something like this.
00:16:41
Evan Yerburgh: Second, that's the second one. Third one is I think is mantra collection. So we do like these big challenges and everyone's counting and all their mantras are going together. Uh fourth one is like mind training like kind of a plan that just keeps going like around and around like in Tibetan they have the eight verses of mind training.
Yash Dixit: Yes. Yes. Yes.
Evan Yerburgh: So then it's like every week you do the same one and like so like Monday you think about this topic and Tuesday and just keep going and then there's like just a meditation timer kind of like meditation. I might be missing one but he kind of wants to like make one experience good and then move on to the next one and make that one good. Yeah. And then there's the whole like sharing like influencer like adding content too.
Yash Dixit: Exactly.
Evan Yerburgh: But he wants to have like if we have good plans in there then we can add like the smaller plans and the influencer stuff. I think I'm not quite sure how the the timeline of the for the influencers.
00:17:41
Evan Yerburgh: I think it's like once we have like a few really good plans then we can have like influencers making little smaller plans. Yeah. But from the tech side,
Yash Dixit: Exactly.
Evan Yerburgh: like the development side, like we'll make the plans really good, hopefully be done soon enough, and then move on to one of those other cases like the mantra accumulation or the daily chanting. Probably like the daily chanting or like daily prayers.
Yash Dixit: Is that okay?
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah. Yeah.
Norbu Tsering: uh even I'm not sure if you're well aware of I'm sure know I'm not sure you are I want you
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah.
Norbu Tsering: to tell us about the we Buddhist connect I think connect we Buddhist connect I want to understand
Evan Yerburgh: All
Norbu Tsering: how we are preparing for it and overall plan it is and what are the expecting from creator teams
Evan Yerburgh: right.
Norbu Tsering: actually I know that creator teams are fully involved in this uh I think you and what we are expecting the creators community to when we are expecting creator community to begin contributing on from my understand heavily inspired by you version connect right if I'm not wrong maybe I'm totally wrong
00:18:39
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah.
Norbu Tsering: right the community contribute so for the long time so for the long
Evan Yerburgh: You're 100% ready.
Norbu Tsering: time I think which is I I believe vhist connect is highly aligned with us creator
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah.
Norbu Tsering: team somehow we need to so I want to know from you event what are The plan,
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah. Yeah.
Norbu Tsering: what are the road when are you guys expecting from us?
Evan Yerburgh: Okay. Yeah, sure. So, I can show you a little bit. Maybe I'll share my screen. I mean this is just like a tiny design that's not done but um I am my is my screen sharing no uh
Yash Dixit: Oh no. Okay.
Tenzin Palkyi: No.
Evan Yerburgh: okay I guess I'll do my entire screen first we're just creating like pages on the app like on the connect page of the app.
Tenzin Palkyi: Oh, yes.
Evan Yerburgh: Um,
Tenzin Palkyi: Okay.
Evan Yerburgh: okay.
Tenzin Palkyi: You can see now.
Evan Yerburgh: So,
Norbu Tsering: Now it's
Evan Yerburgh: um,
Norbu Tsering: visible.
00:19:41
Evan Yerburgh: okay. Just a second. Let's make this smaller.
Norbu Tsering: Yeah.
Evan Yerburgh: Oops.
Norbu Tsering: Either you have to you can close it I
Evan Yerburgh: Okay. And just a second.
Norbu Tsering: think.
Evan Yerburgh: Oh, I can close it. Okay.
Norbu Tsering: Yeah.
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah. Okay. Better. Okay. So, we're just going to have like profiles like to groups and influencers and teachers. like and I mean so far it'll be like a typ of people and then this is just like they have like a picture title and they can add some tags and then they can add a description and we can link to their website and their social and then when they add plans then they could click they would add their plans here and then from the plan side they would like link to the um to their page on the connect page and then um I I can show it longer but then so then the other part of connect is like the studio I know right now I call it the studio but it'll be connect so then they can go in there and um make plans or I think we need we haven't thought it totally through but like making videos like reaction videos and adding content short short content and but all of the their stuff would be on their linked on that
00:21:09
Evan Yerburgh: page and then some of them some of it will be featured like on the homepage and it'll be like you can search for it. Um, but for the first step, maybe in the next two weeks or less, we'll have that like homepage for creators, but at first it'll only be like the groups like but but I set it up like um right now that we're working on the design in studio like the profile page where we collect that information but so that it can accommodate influencers not just like a group or something. Yeah. Um I think they just
Tenzin Palkyi: uh and then yeah and then influencer later on they can make their own plans right whatever
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah. Yeah.
Tenzin Palkyi: plan related to okay
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah. But Yep.
Tenzin Palkyi: uhhuh
Evan Yerburgh: And let me share my screen again. Um just a second. Okay. Yeah. The other thing is we finally just started like analytics Um, so on the let's see. Okay. So now like on the tippy taco website we can see like our daily users and we can see like the drop off and I think we can see we can see like I just started using this.
00:22:47
Evan Yerburgh: Um we can see where they come from and um there's some somewhere in here
Tenzin Palkyi: Yeah.
Evan Yerburgh: activities
Tenzin Palkyi: Uh uh is it in the data? No.
Evan Yerburgh: data. Maybe there's destinations.
Tenzin Palkyi: Uh
Evan Yerburgh: Not sure what this is. No.
Tenzin Palkyi: no.
Evan Yerburgh: Kung's likes has been using it longer. Um you can uh heat maps heat maps we can see like some
Tenzin Palkyi: Yeah.
Evan Yerburgh: user activity like they anonymize it but you can see where they click and so but
Tenzin Palkyi: Okay. All right.
Evan Yerburgh: basically and that's for like the website uh wait where is it
Tenzin Palkyi: Mhm.
Evan Yerburgh: here we also have like the daily active users for in the app which is I think together we're at like 70 people but I guess my point is that we're
Tenzin Palkyi: Okay.
Evan Yerburgh: starting to get some um we're starting to get some data so that we can like like fine tune the app a little
Tenzin Palkyi: Okay.
Evan Yerburgh: bit like we're starting to realize like oh like some the maybe the reader part like the daily plan part is too like complicated like maybe people don't all need like all these commentaries and all this stuff like we should figure out a different way like Yach's comment about like oh it's better to have like two the translation and the poly together and we're like working on fixing that but I my hope is that we can make the app like better for the influencers soon and make it something they want to share and make the plans like the flexibility
00:24:42
Evan Yerburgh: and the look of the like plans better for the
Tenzin Palkyi: All right.
Evan Yerburgh: influencers.
Tenzin Palkyi: So if in case like one of the creator let me just say like Rahul and he wants to make like a uh like a meditation plan like a 5day meditation plan is he also allowed to sell
Evan Yerburgh: Oh,
Tenzin Palkyi: it.
Evan Yerburgh: I I don't think so. I that's just my guess from Entity. We would have to put Yeah,
Tenzin Palkyi: Okay.
Evan Yerburgh: we would definitely need to first have like um like a payment system inside the app.
Tenzin Palkyi: Okay. All right.
Evan Yerburgh: I think it's more likely they could be like a like a donation like maybe you could like give a donation to the creator or something because I know that was one of
Tenzin Palkyi: Okay.
Evan Yerburgh: the Were you working with somebody who or like you were talking to somebody who wanted to have like a donation like a Buddhist donation app?
Tenzin Palkyi: Yeah. So,
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah.
Tenzin Palkyi: uh this guy actually wanted to make like a what is that website?
00:25:45
Tenzin Palkyi: I forgot about where we put where we keep all the donation. What was that app name?
Evan Yerburgh: Uh like gofund me or something.
Tenzin Palkyi: Yeah, GoFundMe. He wanted to make like a Buddhist GoFundMe. But unfortunately,
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah.
Tenzin Palkyi: I think like we have a lot on our plate right now. So,
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah.
Tenzin Palkyi: I just told him like have a lot of going on.
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah. Yeah.
Tenzin Palkyi: But yeah.
Evan Yerburgh: I think that would be like I guess probably if you ask like the answer is no.
Tenzin Palkyi: Yeah,
Evan Yerburgh: But if we do something it would be in a while like it's not a priority.
Tenzin Palkyi: that's that's why. Okay,
Norbu Tsering: Okay,
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah.
Norbu Tsering: I have one question. Uh like for VUD is just related to VUS connect.
Tenzin Palkyi: let's
Evan Yerburgh: Yes.
Norbu Tsering: So there is the two like two user like normal user practitioner like us then one is the content
Evan Yerburgh: Yes.
Norbu Tsering: creator who want to you know we see like potential content who could spread you know a lot of things like that.
00:26:33
Norbu Tsering: So, so what I've seen in new version is they have their own website,
Evan Yerburgh: Yes.
Norbu Tsering: they have their own site, right? Word, WordPress or whatever. When we click to it, it goes to the site and it somehow contributes. So, are we will we provide a separate blog site access specifically for the selected content creator
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah.
Norbu Tsering: like let's say we have like good content creator who would make for a long term who could contribute
Evan Yerburgh: Uh
Norbu Tsering: us also. So are we giving them separate access to some site from our point of view to you know contribute us or we we are giving voluntary whoever can contribute whatever it
Evan Yerburgh: uh uh I think at first it's like like invite only like yeah like right now like it's only like the the Tukiaka and um we have the bodhic sappa in a year site. But do you mean like the for connect it's like the CMS where they make the plans, right? or isop I guess there's two things like um for we're offering I guess with the new website like for the daily tippy paka for um mongo like if somebody makes a plan then we can have that we can give them the code for the embed and they can put that that on their website so they can have like the website version for their website and then also like in the app But I'm not that sure if that answered your question,
00:28:03
Evan Yerburgh: but we would give them access to our like we Buddhist Connect app to make the plans.
Norbu Tsering: Thank you. Exactly. Okay. I think uh apart from this I just I have nothing to say.
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah.
Norbu Tsering: I think even and you teams are have lot of pressure. I understand it totally you know because whatever we conducted like master class whatever it is the main core over there is the V Buddhist isn't it so I feel like everyone is so I can feel it apart from that I just want to say that as Pila insisted since this is for the tech team and even yourself I believe it's very important this time during the uh master class last time during the convention it was never happened actually Gangelo was only talking which I I don't feel like I I'm not telling Gabilla talking too much. He is really great orator but I want I feel like tech team are there for nothing like they just came there.
Evan Yerburgh: Oh yeah.
Norbu Tsering: So considering the quality of because this time considering the quality of audiences which is we are expecting like include it not a student those are academician and teachers videographer there are a lot of professional coming on a lot of hat of you know
00:29:13
Evan Yerburgh: Mhm.
Norbu Tsering: community over there.
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah.
Norbu Tsering: So I think the you know I would like to tech team you know anyone who are presented to prepared at least properly in advance whoever is handling it should become fully prepared and strong
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah.
Norbu Tsering: professional at least presentation I think you know I think whatever the master class whatever
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah.
Norbu Tsering: happening but after all we Buddhist is the northstar right whatever it is which align with that even from the mask we are trying to get user to the we Buddhist so I think we Buddhist
Evan Yerburgh: Mhm.
Norbu Tsering: when this time when tech team present there. We also want to make sure they are very important and they and we will somehow figure
Evan Yerburgh: Okay.
Norbu Tsering: out some time to you know let them present this all those things. So for that also I want to request from this month only we have still got two months from right now we want to request event and whoever team are presenting that you know at least prepare for the
00:30:04
Evan Yerburgh: Okay. Okay. Yeah, I'll write that down. Um, that's also I think like sometimes the tech teams, developers in general, they can like be like just a little bit stuck in their bubble. you're just like constantly work making stuff but you don't connect with the users and like sometimes they'll be like oh why why do we need that feature like why do they need audio they don't need audio why who who cares about audio I don't listen to audio but then once they talk to the users more and the influencers then they can say oh yeah now I understand like it's really good for them to learn from the like audience too
Norbu Tsering: Exactly.
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah.
Norbu Tsering: That's it from my side. Take it off.
Evan Yerburgh: Okay. I think that's it from my side. Let me see. I wrote some notes.
Tenzin Palkyi: All right. Uh, Evan, I'll also send you the meeting minutes.
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah.
Tenzin Palkyi: So,
Evan Yerburgh: Okay. Yeah.
Tenzin Palkyi: Gemini is currently trying it all down.
00:31:06
Evan Yerburgh: Great. Okay. And next
Tenzin Palkyi: Okay. Uh, Evan, I do.
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah.
Tenzin Palkyi: Yes. Uh, you can go ahead. I think I have That's
Evan Yerburgh: Okay. Okay.
Tenzin Palkyi: why.
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah. Uh oh, you have another meeting. Uh yeah,
Tenzin Palkyi: Hello.
Evan Yerburgh: I was going to say next time.
Tenzin Palkyi: I have network issue.
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah. Oh, yeah, sure. Oh, network issue. I get it. Okay. Um yeah, next time like I'm going to go to Ladak uh next week. So like I guess we'll everyone will be in Ladak on the tech team. Um yeah, so we can talk from there and then maybe NC should be available for the next meeting and we can bring like Kang and maybe somebody else also. Yeah. To get more more aligned.
Tenzin Palkyi: Okay. Uh pirate.
Norbu Tsering: Exactly.
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah.
Tenzin Palkyi: Yes. Are we going to have like a separate or we go through a complete rebrand?
00:32:13
Tenzin Palkyi: It's going to happen with Buddhist as well.
Evan Yerburgh: Uh yeah. Um, but I can give you a preview or maybe you saw it in the we Buddhist like um brand identity channel on Discord, but like um Okay, I'm not sure if your connection is good enough to hear, but um yeah, we've been meeting with Maricio, the designer, and we keep we're going through like some iterations and working on the rebrands and like a new logo and colors and everything. And yeah, it should be done pretty soon, but yeah, it's hard to get enough time for NT and everyone together. I mean, especially NT to look at it. Um, yeah, but that that's going on. And then he Mauricio will create like a brand book, brand brand guidelines that we can use. And I think maybe he should also meet with you guys too because um maybe we want to um change change the tone a little bit for social media like depending on like there's different in the app or like if you um presenting at a conference and like social media are all kind of different like voices from the same can be from the same brand but like speaking to different audiences.
00:33:33
Evan Yerburgh: Um, yeah. So, I'll I'll try to get in here next time, too, so you guys can meet him and like I think it's good if he gets feed feedback from you and like can um get like hear about the influencers and like maybe you can give him some things to look at so he understands better.
Norbu Tsering: uh as long as I guarantee you event we a very good uh community Buddhist creator
Evan Yerburgh: Yes.
Norbu Tsering: community creator held by yesesh yesesh is the main coordinator of the community we got a very engaging community so as long as from the better testing part we got a really good people out there so you can rely on us for better testing Inevit.
Evan Yerburgh: Okay. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, that's really great. I'm excited. Like um Yeah, we'll have to talk more about that next time, too. Like I don't know if we can have like different goals like like testing the content like it would be good so we can separate like the apps from the content and like maybe like just see how is the plan is it too long is it engaging is it get boring like how what could we do better and then then also just the app in general
00:34:45
Norbu Tsering: Yeah,
Evan Yerburgh: but
Norbu Tsering: I'm sure I'm sure coaching retreat will be the perfect retreat to resolve everything.
Evan Yerburgh: hopefully Yeah. Yeah.
Norbu Tsering: I guess because we need to gather everyone, isn't it?
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah.
Norbu Tsering: So online is not really what I call it like solving lot of problems.
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah.
Norbu Tsering: So better to stay in one place you know gather each other feedbacks and solve the problem instantly that would be much better I guess voting r plus
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Norbu Tsering: most important decision maker so I think a lot of will be resolved I'm
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah. Yeah. We can Yeah. Yeah.
Norbu Tsering: sure
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah. We can corner him and lock the door so he can't leave until he answers all our
Norbu Tsering: yeah exactly exactly yeah I think yeah this is
Evan Yerburgh: questions.
Norbu Tsering: it do you have anything to
Yash Dixit: uh like uh like as Evan said like gradually uh like by step by step the app
Evan Yerburgh: Okay.
00:35:39
Yash Dixit: will improve. So yeah in budishary avatara I will come with some new ideas when it is uh you know uh available on the
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah. Okay. I think actually because of the like I told you at the beginning like the app having some
Yash Dixit: app.
Evan Yerburgh: problems um right now to in the studio normally like any non-technical person can go and like press publish unpublish but right now only only Kunzang can so I think he left like one way of the bodhicappa plan on the app but don't look at it because I don't know what's in there or maybe it's not in English I think it's only Tibetan in Chinese, but they're like they shouldn't be published, but we have to keep them published for a couple days anyway. When it when it arrives, you'll see.
Norbu Tsering: Yeah. I think
Evan Yerburgh: I also like one last thing is like
Yash Dixit: But
Evan Yerburgh: this like our learning from this is like we need like a testing app like right now like we started with no testing app just publishing and then we fix the problems later.
00:36:46
Evan Yerburgh: It's not a great idea.
Norbu Tsering: Exactly.
Evan Yerburgh: Um but that ladder.
Norbu Tsering: Yeah. True.
Yash Dixit: Exactly.
Norbu Tsering: True. This will solve lot of problem lot of your problem I think for the tech team and lot of us because
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah. Yeah.
Norbu Tsering: it's almost like there's no bridge right almost like making something and directly which will
Yash Dixit: They're publishing it.
Norbu Tsering: obviously it's like expecting a lot of criticism and feedbacks
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Norbu Tsering: obviously
Evan Yerburgh: I mean every time we like make a change there's like we fix three things and we make two more problems and then you then you all see them. So I think in the next week or two we're going to have this definitely during the coding retweet we have this testing app.
Norbu Tsering: Oh,
Evan Yerburgh: So then we'll give we we can give you the link so that you can also test the content first like you can
Norbu Tsering: that's nice.
Evan Yerburgh: say maybe we can give it to the u influencers too like some so they can say oh this
00:37:26
Norbu Tsering: Yeah.
Evan Yerburgh: content is too like academics too boring it's too long or like whatever and we can fix it before the public sees it.
Yash Dixit: Exactly.
Evan Yerburgh: That's it.
Norbu Tsering: True. Exactly.
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah.
Norbu Tsering: Yeah. I guess I have nothing to say. All I'm saying is like best of luck for you guys actually. You know it's not easy. It might seem for us.
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah.
Norbu Tsering: We are like user like we want everything in instantly due to this whole of reals in Instagram and I know it takes a lot of time like technical technicality at the
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah.
Norbu Tsering: background like updating staging environment and everything and I understand you guys you know but
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah. Yeah.
Norbu Tsering: so far whatever you guys have put it up it's wonderful.
Evan Yerburgh: Okay.
Norbu Tsering: So I I want to say good luck for you and your team and I hope by the end of
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah.
Norbu Tsering: quoting ret works out smoothly. So best of
00:38:25
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. And I hope we can do good for you you guys because you guys are like like out there like with the public
Norbu Tsering: luck.
Evan Yerburgh: and with you have this great community, all this enthusiasm and we need we'll try our best to deliver as fast as possible so
Norbu Tsering: Yes. And just to repeat as I told you we have got a good community out there.
Evan Yerburgh: that
Norbu Tsering: So any better testing any tester you not need to be worry about anything. So we are get we are ready with everything.
Evan Yerburgh: Okay.
Norbu Tsering: Yeah that's it I want to say.
Evan Yerburgh: Okay.
Norbu Tsering: Thank you so much.
Evan Yerburgh: Yep.
Norbu Tsering: Yeah.
Evan Yerburgh: Yeah.
Norbu Tsering: Have a great
Evan Yerburgh: Thanks. You too.
Norbu Tsering: day.
Evan Yerburgh: And as soon as I get we have the stating site set or stating app set up, I'll share the links with you.
Norbu Tsering: Sure. Sure. Have a great day.
Yash Dixit: Thank you.
Evan Yerburgh: Okay. You too.
Norbu Tsering: Okay.
Evan Yerburgh: Thanks. Byebye.
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