Kartik Talwar
@kartik
Worked on a small mini app over the weekend - buy data eSIMs with crypto! The prices are cheaper than industry standard for most countries. Check it out and would love any feedback! https://esim.ethglobal.com
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frolic
@frolic
Just grabbed a SIM! Some fresh-eyes feedback: - I had USDC balance in my Warpcast wallet on Base (via rewards), but not ETH, so I couldn't pay because I didn't have enough funds for gas. I had to manually swap via the wallet. - Login/verify email screen only filled in the first number of the login code when using "use code from email" iOS shortcut. - Prompted me to activate after purchase, but can't actually activate until I am in the country? Got stuck on iOS' "Connecting to network..." screen and eventually timed out and let me continue. Maybe worth noting that? Also assumed this was a generic eSIM mini app, so I was a little confused by the ETHGlobal branding everywhere (but I know you're Kartik so I understand haha). Overall, incredibly smooth. I've only used Airalo and this was much nicer and cheaper. This will be my default from now on!
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Kartik Talwar
@kartik
Great feedback and thanks for purchasing an eSIM! Some comments: - right now the setup is to let people pay in any token vs haven't prioritized paying for gas on users behalf - installation and activation are 2 different steps. Installing associates your device with the carrier, activation turns on data receiving. It's currently configured to activate on first connect when you land in the purchased country so the registration process is a bit out of my control as apple facilitates that whole process - ETHGlobal branding because this is the same infra that powers our internal and Packs product issuance and the entity that has the authority to generate the eSIMs. We're taking care of a lot of things on the backend :) - email is needed to tie user to eSIM provisioning and allow data recharging (future feature)
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barabazs
@barabazs.eth
> entity that has the authority to generate the eSIMs Does this mean that the eSIM are tied to ETHGlobal as the "owner". There are countries in Europe where you need to KYC to get a SIM card (or eSIM).
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