ERPC Revamps Validators DAO Discord Dashboard for Solana RPC and VPS Management, Enhancing Usability with Purpose-Based UI

ELSOUL LABO B.V. (Headquarters: Amsterdam, the Netherlands; CEO: Fumitake Kawasaki) and Validators DAO announced the revamp of the ERPC management interface, the "Validators DAO Discord Dashboard." The update enables intuitive, purpose-based channel navigation for purchasing and managing Solana RPC, VPS, and bare-metal servers, significantly improving usability and addressing existing issues.

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As the number of products expanded, the previous dashboard presented challenges such as: difficulty in finding the right button, unclear paths for changing gRPC IP addresses, and complicated steps for starting or upgrading plans. In addition, the purchase flow for bundle plans or VPS instances was not intuitive, often leading to a complicated management experience.

Traditional frontend UIs required significant effort across layout, rendering, and data-fetching timing. Adapting to changing requirements was difficult, making them rigid. In domains like Web3 and DAOs, where rapid iteration is essential until reaching PMF, this rigidity became a particularly critical issue.

The new Discord Dashboard adopts a purpose-based channel design. Major actions such as starting plans, upgrading, changing gRPC IPs, and purchasing VPS instances are organized into separate channels for intuitive access. This allows users to seamlessly follow the workflow and complete everything from purchasing to management and support directly within Discord.

Frontend UI development almost always breaks down under requirement changes. The initial design inevitably becomes obsolete, and fixing it requires more effort than creating it from scratch, with risks at every step. This is why so many UIs collapse.

Discord UI, on the other hand, can be built as an extension of backend APIs. When constructing UI on Discord, the necessary logic and APIs are implemented first, and their interactions are already completed in a messaging format. This I/O specification can then serve directly as the foundation for frontend UI development.

Developing APIs and frontend simultaneously slows progress. By first iterating rapidly with APIs and Discord UI, meeting customer needs to a certain degree, and then building the frontend UI afterward, it becomes possible to deliver the highest quality in the shortest time. This method is the realistic and ideal optimal solution for projects seeking PMF.

ERPC has been able to achieve countless rapid improvements in a short period precisely because we have focused on developing APIs through Discord UI. We believe this knowledge is valuable for nearly all Solana projects, and we will implement it into the open-source platform SLV, supporting Solana development on a broader scale. Many Solana projects currently struggle with development itself and lack sufficient support. SLV aims to change this reality by evolving into a platform that comprehensively supports everything from development to operations.

In developing the Solana NFT card game Epics DAO, we directly faced the challenge of how difficult it was to secure a high-quality and high-speed Solana development environment. We therefore built our own platform and now provide ERPC and SLV based on that knowledge.

Applications involving finance are especially mission-critical, where latency and errors directly affect user experience. Solana development is complex, with validators distributed worldwide and Web3-specific knowledge stacked on top, making it difficult to grasp the whole picture. As a result, improvements have been slow, and many projects have struggled with latency and instability.

By providing the high-performance development environment required, we are committed to improving user experience across the Solana ecosystem. ERPC, along with open-source projects like SLV, is positioned as part of that mission.