What Jamie told POAP
From 2021 to 2025 Jamie kept telling POAP what to build, in posts and in the Weekly Thing. Here is each suggestion, in Jamie's words, beside what came of it.
| # | Suggestion | Jamie's words | What happened |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | City treasure hunts in which collecting a full set unlocks a bonus token 2021-09-11 WT194 | It would be super cool to have POAP NFT treasure hunts in various cities. | Yes, by POAP and by Jamie. Jamie ran it himself as the 612 POAP Challenge with achievement tokens (2025). POAP ran the Airport POAP Rally 2026 as a Collection. |
| 2 | Organize as a DAO that people can buy into, instead of a closed VC raise 2022-01-22 WT208 | POAP could have also formalized itself around a DAO. It could have allowed people to buy in and be part of it. | No. |
| 3 | A way to "burn" or invalidate a farmed event 2022-06-04 post; 2023-01-16 post | Anti-farming for issuers would be nice. I had one POAP event get completely farmed and I would like to be able to invalidate that event somehow. | Not recorded. His POAP Events list still marks Reading Things First 100 "This event is invalid." |
| 4 | RSS feeds of claims for each event (and later each collector address) 2023-01-14 Wishlist; 2025-01-05 POAP + RSS | If every event offered an RSS feed of POAP claims, that could be used by event organizers to power a ton of automations when a token is claimed. | No, so Jamie built it. POAP2RSS launched 2025-07-04 and was submitted to the POAP Directory 2025-07-10. |
| 5 | Webhooks on claim 2023-01-14 Wishlist | Webhooks would be a great middle option between the full POAP API, and something simple like RSS. | Not recorded. |
| 6 | Events signed by the issuer's wallet to prove authenticity 2023-01-14 Wishlist; 2023-01-16 Premium Features | It would be great to be able to sign the event with your wallet! | Not recorded. |
| 7 | Location-bound, timeless POAPs (home, summit, cafe) 2023-01-14 Wishlist | There is an opportunity to have POAPs for things that are bound to locations instead of times. | Yes. Location drops. Jamie's first was 2025-05-25: "now you can with location drops!" (2025-05-31). |
| 8 | Reminder emails and organizer visibility for email reservations 2023-01-14 Wishlist | POAP should send reminder emails to nudge those that have reserved to move forward with minting. | Yes. New POAP Onboarding Process (2024-01-14): reservation emails now offer actions. |
| 9 | A non-custodial wallet POAP creates for new users, Reddit-style, with an optional ENS name 2023-01-14 Wishlist | Better yet would be to have POAP provide a non-custodial wallet for users that don't have one. | Yes. Privy embedded wallet with an onpoap.eth name, exportable to Rainbow (2024-01-14): "they had addressed everything I had wished for". A free ENS subname in POAP Home followed (2024-09-24). |
| 10 | Priority support bundled with design help ("full service") 2023-01-16 Premium Features | If bundled into a 'full service' experience I think there are companies that may pay for this. | Not recorded. |
| 11 | Event promotion that avoids "suggested user list" problems 2023-01-16 Premium Features | POAP should avoid the problems that come from things like a 'suggested user list'. | Not recorded. |
| 12 | One-way notifications to collectors 2023-01-16 Premium Features | One-way messaging to collectors of your POAPs would be great. For sure this would be a really big win. | Not recorded. |
| 13 | Post-claim URL setting 2023-01-16 Premium Features; POAP as a Business | it would be sufficient for most use cases to be able to have a event setting for a URL for people to go to after claiming. | Not recorded. |
| 14 | Opt-in drop analytics with privacy; no net-worth tracking 2023-01-16 Premium Features | these features need to all be at the wish of the issuer. I value privacy, and would want my drops to be the same way. | Not recorded. POAP Family's overlap graph is the analytics Jamie used and praised (2023-01-31). |
| 15 | Easier claim-code management and distribution 2023-01-16 Premium Features | When I talk with people about distributing POAPs managing the claim codes is always a burden. | Partly, per Jamie's practice. NFC IYK discs and POAP Cards made Minnebar 19 "simpler and easier to distribute" (2025-04-06). Email-only minting came with the 2024 onboarding. |
| 16 | Image and design services for drops 2023-01-16 Premium Features; POAPathon post | Creating images for POAPs seems like an obvious capability. | Not recorded. Jamie kept using POAPathon, then DALL-E, GPT and Gemini to make art. |
| 17 | Two-sided POAPs (front and back) 2023-01-16 Extensions | Why not support two images for POAPs so they have a front and a back. | Not recorded. |
| 18 | Official POAP Collections, with a completion POAP 2023-01-16 Extensions | It would be cool if there was an official collection that these were part of and that was part of the event pages. | Yes. "A year later and POAP has launched exactly what I described!" (WT276, 2024-02-11). The Airport Rally ran as a Collection. |
| 19 | Unique metadata for each claim (e.g. escape-room time and clues) 2023-01-16 Extensions | If an issuer could add one off metadata to a specific claim code it could unlock a ton of use cases. | Not recorded. |
| 20 | POAP Collector plan at $3/mo: on-chain analytics, notes on each POAP, nearby-drop alerts, delivery alerts, one mainnet migration credit a month 2023-01-16 POAP as a Business | As a POAP collector, I would want to pay a relatively small monthly fee to be able to get cool information about my collection and display it well. | Not recorded as a paid plan. A related free feature appears in his writing: Moments/Memories photos attached to drops (2024-02-03, 2025-04-28). |
| 21 | POAP Pro at $20/mo: issue by email, collections, analytics embed, external IDs, redirect, metadata per claim 2023-01-16 POAP as a Business | What if we just kept everything as is, but added a new POAP Pro level. | Not recorded as a plan. Collections and email-based minting shipped separately (rows 8, 9, 18). |
| 22 | POAP Studio at $500/event and POAP for Business at $100/mo or $1,000/yr 2023-01-16 POAP as a Business | I think you could then have a service to provide a 'full service' experience for the issuer. | Not recorded. |
| 23 | Free or cheap tier for non-profits 2023-01-16 POAP as a Business | Make it super cheap or free for non-profits to use advanced POAP Pro and Studio capabilities. | Not recorded. |
| 24 | Bring POAPathon into the POAP drop-creation flow 2023-01-03 POAPathon Future Thoughts | Getting in this flow of requests would help make sure there are enough contests to have a thriving community. | Not recorded. |
| 25 | Make onboarding usable for "your average person" 2023-01-29 WT239 | It is getting easier, but it is still ridiculously complicated for even your average person to do this. | Largely yes, per 2024-01-14: "POAP ease-of-use is much improved!" |