# How to convert "1" to 1 in Teal?

How can I convert Bytes("1") to Int(1) using PyTeal? Assert(Btoi(Bytes("1")) == Int(1)) gives logic eval error: assert failed. That’s consistent with the warning “operations are not meant to convert between human-readable strings and numbers” from here: [Data Types and Constants — PyTeal documentation](https://pyteal.readthedocs.io/en/latest/data_type.html).

# How to find and advertise community projects?

The Algorand docs have a section on Community Projects at [https://developer.algorand.org/docs/community/](https://developer.algorand.org/docs/community/) featuring four applications using the Algorand blockchain. How are applications added to this list? Is there a suggested place to advertise Algorand applications? I’d like to look at small-scale…

# Problem with Algorand Sandbox "Getting Started"

Thank you for the reply. I now see that this is a docker problem and not an Algorand Sandbox problem. So, seems my question does not belong into this forum. Anyway, I tried the things you suggested: running “docker pull postgres:13-alpine” gives the same problem. I checked and the issue is not low …

I want to use the [Algorand Sandbox](https://github.com/algorand/sandbox). I’m on macOS on a Macbook with M1 chip. After installing docker-compose and making sure the daemon is running, I open a terminal and run:

git clone [https://github.com/algorand/sandbox.git](https://github.com/algorand/sandbox.git)
cd sandbox
./sandbox up

The result is:
Pulling indexer-db (postgres:13-…

# How to deploy application using purestake?

I want to follow the tutorial “Your First Application” to deploy a “hello world” smart contract. [Your First Application - Algorand Developer Portal](https://developer.algorand.org/docs/features/asc1/stateful/hello_world/) . At one point in the tutorial I have to run a command that begins with “goal app create” in my shell in order to deploy the smart contract. How to do …