Title: ETH_Prize__Transcribed_Developer_Interviews__84_in
Category: Magicians

Author: pet3rpan
Date: 2018-06-16T02:30:59.609Z

Recently as part of the ETHPrize project, 84 developers from around the community were interviewed. These were conducted over several months by Rob Bent, Sina Habibian, Andy Tudhope, Josh Stark + individuals from L4, ECF, Web3 and the Ethereum Foundation. You can find their original blog post here.
The aim of the interviews looked to diagnose the biggest frustrations while trying to build dapps. The interview questions included:

What do you do?
What are the tools/libraries/frameworks you use?
What are your biggest frustrations?
What tools don’t exist at the moment?
How do you handle testing?
What are the best educational resources?
What was the hardest part about learning to develop with Ethereum?
Are there any other questions we should be asking?

Interviewees

0x - Fabio Berger & Remco Bloemen
0x - Leo Logvinov
1Protocol - Axel Ericsson
AmbiSafe - Oleksii
Aragon - Jorge Izquierdo
Augur - Jack Peterson & Sparkle
Augur - Joey Krug
Bounties.network - Mark Beylin
ChainSafe - Aidan Hyman
Chainsafe - Greg, Stu and David
Consensys - Jon Maurelian
Consensys - Nick Dodson
CryptoKitties - Fabiano, Jordan, Nick
DappHub - Andy Milenius
Decentraland - Esteban Ordano
Decentraland - Matias Bargas
Dharma - Nadav Hollander
EF & Mist - Alex van de Sande
EF - Nick Johnson
EthVigil - Swaroop
Ethereum Foundation - Alex Beregszazzi & Pawel Bylica
Ethereum Foundation - Christian Reitwiessner
Ethereum Foundation - Fabian Vogelsteller
Ethereum Foundation - Hudson Jameson
Ethereum Foundation - Martin Swende
Gitcoin - Kevin Owocki
GivEth - Arthur & RJ
GivEth - Griff Green
GivEth - Jordi Baylina
Gnosis - Stefan George
Golem - Alex Leverington
GridPlus - Alex Miller
HelloGold - Dave Appleton
Integral - James Prestwich
Kleros - Clement Lesaege and Nico Wagner
Kyokan - Dan Tsui
Kyokan - Jacky & Matthew
L4 - Andrey Petrov
L4 - Liam Horne
L4 - Richard Moore
Leeroy - James Childs-Maidment
LivePeer - Yondon Fu
Loom - James Duffy
Matthew Di Ferrante
MetaMask - Aaron Kumavis
MetaMask - Dan Finlay
Modular.network - Christopher Brown
Mycrypto - Harry Denley
Mycrypto - Taylor Monahan
Newline - Nate Murray
OST - Benjamin Bollen & Paruyr Gevorgyan
Parity - Fredrik Harrysson
Parity - Nicolay Wolf
Parityweb3 - Peter Czaban
Phil Castonguay
Plasma & Zepellin - Federico & Jaynti
Pragma - John Palmer
Pragma - Marcus Molchany
Pyeth - Piper Merriam
Quantstamp - Richard Ma & Don Ho
Quickblocks - Jay Rush
Remix - Yann Levreau
Samsara Protocol - Gustavo Guimarães
Scott Wright
SlockIt - Simon Jentzsch
SourceCred - Dandelion
SpankChain - David Wolever
Status - Ricardo Guillerme Schmidt
Status - Richard Ramos
Truebit - Sina Habibian
Truffle - Nick D’andrea & Christopher Gewecke
TurboGeth - Alexey Akhunov
Ujo Music - Simon de la Rouviere
Virtue Poker - Alvaro
Virtue Poker - Javier Franco
Vulcanize - Rick Dudley
Week In Ethereum - Evan Van Ness
William Entriken
Wyvern - Christopher Goes
XLNT - Matt Condon
Y-Combinator - Ramon Recuero
Zeppelin - Facu Spagnuolo
Zeppelin - Manuel Araoz
dYdX - Brendan Chou
eWASM - Lane Rettig

You can find all the transcribed interviews here
https://github.com/status-im/ETHPrize/tree/master/bounties_report/analysis
More recently, I have been helping organise the raw qualitative information from the different interviews into an excel sheet. Categorising the different insights from questions & answers. Highly recommend that you dig through these if you have a 1-2 hours to spare. Here is the excel sheet that is somewhat organised and digestible https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oj9VDHmhxPqQGKUAsISEnejdTnd-D5VAoRnVv2hDn6g/edit?usp=sharing // I am fairly slow with writing a summary for this but would love if someone else cold help / pick a section and summarise insights to share
This is apparently a small step towards a something bigger. You can find out more about the project here: https://discuss.status.im/t/datasets-by-status/76

Author: jpitts
Date: 2018-06-17T05:35:40.605Z

@pet3rpan, this is great work, as are other efforts to acquire and process feedback such as the EIP-0 survey and Giveth’s ScalingNOW! interviews.
Understanding the needs and pain points of the various stakeholders is going to be critical to the success of the Ethereum platform. At the very least, this saves us from wasting time on initiatives and features that are not needed.