Thank you for the information. This helps create a clearer picture. If I may ask a few additional questions:
In terms of competitors, are there other projects doing something similar?
What are the details regarding the project’s revenue and costs?
Thank you very much for the information. I’m fully supporting you. If after this, you would like help with communication or promotion, please feel free to give me feedback. =)
Stay strong, you have something interesting here, surely time and dedication will reward you at any moment, watch out for the final product.
GM!
It’s been a busy year at the D8A HQ (AKA my laptop)..
I restarted our website design from scratch and have been utilizing AI to speed up development.
Before we had 3 databases on 2 servers for our 3 products:
Metaverse.
Website.
Telegram bot.
Now they’ve all been merged into 1 server..
This was a pain point before because I’d have to update 1 project at a time and had to test individually..
Now it’s a lot smoother on the backend and quicker to upload when changes are made..
How’s it going?:
The expense of $120 a month has been reduced to $50 a month.
A newer website is live for testing and the old test website has been deprecated.
The telegram bot is working well against spam.. (984 banned this year)
The Decentraland metaverse has been getting very exciting lately with all the AI developments.. Now it only takes a few days to build something which would of taken months before..
Statistics:
The telegram bot is in a few groups with around 30,000 users..
3739 users have interacted with the bot directly..
170 users have interacted with the latest metaverse build.. (Since jan) (not told anyone about it tbh)
The unofficial telegram group has been slowly declining since the 2021 boom and is now at 645 users but we’re still actively helping anyone that needs it..
The new website now has accounts integrated so we can start tracking usage better from now onwards.. Go sign up!
So what’s next?:
The website has a lot of bugs that need fixing. (While developing, CCIP was very new so it needs better testing and improving.)
I am actively monitoring all the telegram bot activity and updating as new scams come through but it’s mainly on auto-pilot now..
I want to vibe-code a quick NFT trading platform in decentraland utilizing the D8A technology. And also a twitter/discord bot to help users link their accounts to the D8A platform and maybe more..
I have discovered an interesting use-case for the D8A website so most of my work will be there for the next months. (Secret project)
I’m very proud of the Astar community for not attempting to delist me for lack of engagement as I continue to work behind the scenes!
All your stakes are appreciated!
Thank you all for your continued support!
Thank you for the update, it’s great to see continued development and optimization behind the scenes, especially with the infrastructure improvements and reduced costs.
How do you see these recent upgrades contributing to Astar’s broader ecosystem or community engagement going forward?
thanks for the update.
Really nice to see that small project still work hard to stay their and provide access to important tools and information to the community
So it’s a useful tool for various situations…
For example if you was an Astar Degens admin and somebody said in your community that they purchased an NFT but they don’t see it..
This link they can help them verify by checking their address:
Or if the admin already knows their address then they can include it in the URL:
If you take the time to setup an an advanced flow transaction you could do something like:
These D8A links can be really useful for external software that are outside of the browser..
Most high performance metaverses need to be downloaded to the computer..
These applications are normally built in C# or something..
Currently there is no universal crypto wallet for C#/JS/PY.. 
But now all these kind of applications can easily provide a D8A link to their users so that they can perform transactions in their game or app..
EG buy credits
We also have email alerts for dapp staking..
To keep you updated if you need to:
We can pretty much do anything with the Astar ecosystem via D8A..
I imagine big things for d8a with its gradual improvements..
I would really appreciate some dapp stakers though to increase the legitimacy of the project and cover the cost of a server!
Edit:
I accidentally clicked edit…
Then saved (because I didn’t change anything)..
But it converted my parenthesis on the website from " to “..
And broke the link 
Love seeing the infrastructure consolidation paying off — cutting costs by 60% while improving workflow is solid. The AI-assisted development for Decentraland sounds game-changing. What’s been the biggest challenge in merging those 3 databases? Any gotchas you ran into that others should watch out for? =)
Well I guess I learned a thing about databases and scaling..
I started out on firebase. Which actually worked pretty well but I didn’t like that they would make it difficult to export and costs would incur as I scaled upwards.
So I went to prisma.. Which worked ok but didn’t work very well when I wanted to start doing multi account stuff..
So I started to work with mongodb which is great but my other project was still using prisma..
This was fine for a bit until the telegram bot started to get a lot of users and would sometimes timeout..
The telegram bot had 80,000 user accounts at one point and started to regularly crash..
So now I’ve partitioned the database into sections so it can scale to more users..
I also encouraged some of the groups to reduce their user accounts by deleting expired accounts.
TLDR:
Mongodb is the best..
80k users crashing the bot is impressive growth! Good call on MongoDB and partitioning. Sounds like it’s stable now?
I definitely could get more users if I focused on the telegram..
There are always new scams coming through but we successfully catch 99.9% of them..
I could broadcast a message to 3000 people right now which is good when I have the finished product. 
3k direct reach is valuable. Beyond the product launch broadcast, have you thought about turning those Telegram users into advocates? Like referral mechanics or community-driven growth loops?
I expect the followers will be advocates of the project when we have all our products live
I’ll have to think more about referrals because there would need to be an incentive to win.
But we’ll see when we get there!
Nice breakdown, scaling pain always teaches fast ’
Partitioning the database was a smart move, and it’s great to see you pushed past the limitations of earlier setups. MongoDB really shines once you hit those higher user counts. Keep it up!