Porridge Mix 1

This series of blogs will be on the weekly happenings at One-Grain: Our plans, our progress and features planned for the coming weeks. Hopefully this will give you a better understanding of how the services operate and what we are doing to grow our user base. 

So, enough of the pretence and on with the build. The extension has been in it’s V1 state for over a month now and we have seen some small organic growth through the app store and friends. Technically speaking, we are in a solid position and will look to grow the user base as much as possible in the run up to Christmas. It is our intention to partner with a variety of eco friendly brands to offer discounts and offers to our users through the extension. This is very much in it’s infancy but expect to see something exciting nearer Christmas. 

Alongside the extension, we recognised that One-Grain’s philosophy of effective altruism can be extended to other aspects of our users lives and increase the amount of support we can provide to those who need it. The extension primarily focuses on those who use desktop and laptop browsers for the majority of their day but is not yet available on mobile. An area we have talked about at length is how to put the power of effective altruism into the hands of our users. Moreover, understand how we interact with our devices and what we could make to harness that activity. We came to the conclusion that building a game, where points equate to grains, could be a fun and exciting way of generating more users, more clicks and more grains.

We have been building the GRAINZ game for the last month and hope to share it with you soon! Once we have released this we will focus on the growth of the community and generating as many grains as possible. The next blog should include some samples of the game and more updates on the extensions success!