Hi.
Later this week, Assembly.com will be releasing a new product experience. These new tools for telling your product's story will be a significantly different experience. Our focus is to make it easy for a community to gather around your product and follow along with the development. We’ve seen how that leads to more thoughtful feedback, better community support, and richer co-creation on your products.
The new Assembly replaces bounties and lists of tasks to do for a feed of progress that celebrates the great work that has happened. It also gives product creators the flexibility they were asking for; management, hosting, and the ways you reward contributors is now entirely up to each product.
The Assembly you are familiar with, now affectionately called 1.0, will have a new home at cove.assembly.com for the time being. We will support the existing profitable products on version 1.0 as well as provide ways to migrate your product’s data to the next version of Assembly. We've also open sourced the codebase so you can continue running your product if you choose to self-host the platform.
Our mission when we created Assembly was to connect creators around the world; so they could build products together that were greater than what one person could on their own. Thanks to you and the amazing Assembly community, we’ve learnt much over the last two years. We’ve seen products collectively reach millions of users and paid out thousands of dollars to contributors. There have also been challenges as the number of products on Assembly grew, leading to these product changes. Every product is unique and so are their needs when managing, hosting, and monetizing them. There were also needs for additional flexibility in the way products reward those in the community who help contribute to them. We realized there wasn’t any solution that could do justice to the breadth of creativity and innovation we were seeing from the Assembly community.
The majority of the feedback that we received was centered squarely around a creator's ability to get his or her community more excited about a product and allow them more simple access to contribute their time, energy, and resources. We felt uniquely positioned to solve that problem for you and Assembly’s new product experience intends to do just that.
Thank you. Matt and the Assembly team.
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Q: Will there be App Coins in the new Assembly?
A product only needs a few actively engaged core team members to get it on its way to success. We haven’t observed App coins adding significant value to those early team members once relationships and trust formed among them. We do have plans to add a similar concept that core teams can use to recognize and reward new contributors that briefly help out, but the actual reward and how they are used will be defined by each product.
If you want to still use App Coins for your product you can self host your own Assembly 1.0 instance. We’ve also open sourced the core infrastructure we used for App Coins which you can find at coins.assembly.com.
Q: I earn monthly revenue from an Assembly product, what will happen to this?
You’ll continue to earn revenue while the product is running, is profitable, and you have App Coins. You’ll continue to have access to your account on cove.assembly.com which you can use to request withdrawals, update information, and continue participating on the product’s bounties.