The first stage was to prove that I can build a playground experience that lets people enjoy building and interacting with Soroban smart contracts, all with zero setup and latency. The second stage will yield a fully-featured online development environment for Soroban and the tools to keep people building and engaged with the community. Software development is so much more delightful when you can build, share, and explore what other people are building. This next iteration of useSoroban dot app will focus on exactly that. We'll start by implementing a robust user system that will finally support a free tier for all to enjoy. Next, you will be able to persist your contract storage between sessions and users. This will enable long-lived experiences that mimic what a testnet provides with no latency or onboarding churn. With user/developer profiles and activity widgets you'll be able to see what contracts people are playing with and learn about other developers and their techniques. Then, because user testing is never enough, useSoroban dot app will add an integrated test environment for your Soroban smart contracts with an intuitive interface right in your browser. Finally, every development environment requires awesome built-in onboarding and education, and that will be the cherry on top for web developers getting started with Soroban. After we complete the 2nd stage of useSoroban dot app development, Soroban will have the most magical developer environment in the market.

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