If you can recall the buffet analogy from Chapter 2, Grokking Ethereum, ethercast is analogous to the buffet table. It is a website that serves as a platform to freely register DApps at different states of their development life cycle, as depicted in Figure 4.3. Once it is registered, a DApp life cycle status can be tracked as progress in development is made. It is a Web 2.0-based app store that links us to progression states of Web 3.0-based DApps.
This app store (https://dapps.ethercasts.com/) was founded by Joris Bontje. The site is going through a revamp, which can be reached at: https://www.stateofthedapps.com/.
The DApp life cycle status is color-coded according to the legend mentioned in Figure 4.3. If we click on any of the DApp tiles, further information and web links are detailed for user convenience, as shown in Figure 4.4. This app store can serve as a one-stop guide to developers who are new to the Ethereum DApp developmental workspace:
Figure 4.3: State of DApps...