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Here's where we're at.
Welcome to the Are.na roadmap. Here you can see what we’ve shipped recently, what we’re building next, and how we’re doing as a company.
By sharing this information we aim to demystify the weird and wonderful process of working on a mostly bootstrapped web company. We’re working our hardest to build a space that’s mindful, respectful, and accountable to our thousands of lovely members. We have lots of ideas for how to do a better job, as well as lots of challenges.
This is meant to be as transparent as reasonably possible. If there’s something you don’t see here that you’d like to know, just email [email protected]
Road to self-sustainability
Are.na’s mission is to build a member-supported community. Since we're accountable to our members instead of advertisers, our incentive is always to build a tool that fosters learning and genuine collaboration. This also means that Are.na’s future relies entirely on community contributions. Here’s how you can help:
Today
$28275 Monthly recurring revenue
14,188 Monthly active members
727K Monthly connections
6,225 Total paying members
Goal by Friday, April 30, 2021
$30000 Monthly recurring revenue
Premium
Premium members get unlimited private content, additional privacy settings, an invitation to our members’ Slack and more features soon. More about Premium:
Go Premium
Premium members currently contribute 
$26645  in monthly recurring revenue.
Premium Supporter
If you’re already Premium and want to chip in a little extra, you can upgrade to our Supporter tier. You’ll receive regular emails from the team, plus a free Are.na Annual.
Become a Supporter
Supporters currently contribute 
$1360  in monthly recurring revenue.
Product Plan
Last updated: Thursday, March 25, 2021
In Progress

  • GraphQL library updates

  • List view

  • Backend infrastructure / performance improvements

Up next

  • Updated homepage

  • Asyncronous job queue work

  • Upgrades to search infrastructure

  • Android share extension

  • Full-text search

On the Horizon

  • Comment management

  • Desire lines

Archived

  • Hide notification counter on mobile

  • Delete comments on mobile

  • Mobile premium management

  • Mobile navigation upgrades

  • Mobile infrastructure upgrades

  • Settings for connect search

  • Reader mode (web and mobile)

  • Extract Reader mode for links

  • SPA performance upgrades

  • Revised text styling

  • Updated dark mode

  • Group invite links

  • Sunday Review emails

  • Integrate Ad-blocked screenshot service

  • Weekly digest email

  • Deep links / Universal links for iOS and Android apps

  • Safari Extension

  • Updated print.are.na

  • Explore block filters

  • Android App

  • Your connections

  • iOS dark mode

  • Replace thumbnail on links, embeds and attachments

  • iOS app / iPad landscape mode

  • Group feeds

  • oEmbed endpoints

  • Following views by type

  • Port extension code to bookmarklet

  • Connection limit updates

  • Browser extension / bookmarklet refactor

  • Channel grid view refactor

  • Publish Firefox extension

  • Channel embed infrastructure

  • Custom badges

  • Revamped block lightbox view

  • Sign-up optimizations

  • Group profiles

  • Channel preview

  • Onboarding banners 🏳️

  • Icon audit

  • Optimized billing flow

Changelog
Last updated: March 25, 2021
March 25, 2021

Are.na mobile (not released yet)

  • 🔥 New share extension work in progress for iOS and Android

Are.na API

  • Migrated to a new version of PostgreSQL
  • Fixed issue with "Connect to Twitter" functionality
  • Fixed profile slug updating after name changes
  • Fixed uploading avatar bug

Are.na Client

  • Updated perks page

General

February 26, 2021

Are.na client

  • ➸ Extension now searches for underlying image when right clicking on an area
  • Allow "remove connection" when a block is still processing
  • Updates to Roadmap and Pricing pages
  • Support for Supporter tier
  • Remove outdated banners and update coupons
  • Fix issue with banner covering premium subscriptions (thx Bhoka!)
  • Fix bug where non-premiums couldn't unsubscribe from Sunday Review

Are.na API

  • Move all image URLs to image proxy, stop producing image versions (reduces processing time and page load)
  • Support for Supporter tier
  • Allow lifetime subscribers to manage premium settings
  • Countless dependency upgrades
  • Fix failed instagram blocks loading forever
  • Fix GIF processing errors
  • Allow subscriptions when coupon code makes the balance 0

Are.na mobile (not released yet)

  • 🔥 Hide notification counter
  • 🚨 Swipe to delete comments
  • Fixed back navigation bug
  • Fixed scrollbar bug

General

November 28, 2020

Are.na API

  • 🔜 Massive refactoring underway to update dependencies, fix async queueing and prepare groundwork for search improvements
  • Database capacity upgrades

Are.na client

  • Various accessibility refinements (thx Nick!)
  • 🐛 Fix onboarding channel modal
  • 🐛 Fix dark mode styling for edit collaborators (thx Laurel!)
  • 🐛 Fix quick search click when opening new tab (thx Lukas!)

Are.na mobile (not released yet)

  • 🔥 Refactor entire navigation system for speed and performance
  • Refactored onboarding

General

October 30, 2020

Are.na client

  • 🆕 Connect search settings ("Your channels / All channels")
  • 🆕 Update connect settings on Chrome and Firefox extensions
  • 🆕 Support footnotes on blog
  • ⚙️ Use PNGs on image proxy on browsers that don't support PNGs
  • ⚙️ Fix images on thumbnails with smaller sizes (not deployed yet)
  • ⚙️ Display upload limits on drag overlay
  • 🐛 Clear cache after premium upgrade

Are.na API

  • 🆕 Add support for uploading WEBP
  • 🆕 Add new sections to Sunday Review
  • 🐛 Fix Twitter screenshots
  • 🐛 Fix webloc on exported channels
  • 🐛 Fix instagram screenshot failures
  • 🐛 Fix issue where ad-blocker was not getting applied

Are.na mobile

  • 🆕 Premium subscription management
  • 🐛 Fix image upload issue

General

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Company Vision
Last updated: Thursday, March 25, 2021
Revenue & Strategy

  • Reach $30K in monthly revenue by end of April 2021

  • Continue improving the conversion portion of Premium members vs Active members (currently ~40%)

  • Continue reducing the infrastructure costs portion of monthly expenses (currently ~25%)

Ethics

  • Become a public benefit corporation or an alternative community-benefiting entity in order to legally protect our mission.

  • Work to promote ad-free businesses and ethical design principles in the tech industry

  • Explore possible avenues for a more cooperative membership structure

Community

  • Create stronger community benefits for Premium members

  • Make grants to foster creative research by Are.na members

  • Create a structure for compensating our member-investors

Team

Our team is currently composed by two full-time engineering/product people, two part-time in charge of community initiatives and three advisors. Our goals are:

  • Pay our current team living wages with benefits

  • Hire 2 more developers to work on product infrastructure

  • Prioritize diversity for additional hires