From 0-to-1: Growth Hacking Your Viral dApp Idea

zherring commented 4 years ago

Update

Submission Form 👇 https://forms.gle/fgZgeFDYrUEAhe1y9

Playbook Template 👇 https://docs.google.com/document/d/13cgrPlujSJzZf08lIeMzhgR3icTIPalJqiMZsJPb9Q8/edit?usp=sharing

Prize

3 ETH (2 prizes for less than 10 submissions, up to 4 prizes awarded for more than 10 submissions received).

Challenge

Have you been wondering about what blockchain and web3 technology is? Do you believe that somewhere, someone is experiencing a problem caused by lack of transparency, corruption, or centralization? If so, this hackathon is for you!

Important to note: We are not asking for your app idea. Submissions that are just the idea alone, without user validation and a playbook of their methods will be marked as disqualified.

Over the next 15 days, publish your idea and experiment to see if people are interested. No code required; this is a contest for growth hacking and lean experimentation! At the end of the hackathon, show us that you’ve come up with the most viral idea for a new startup by sending us compelling numbers in the form of:

Beta signups or emails collected (i.e. through a fake door)
Medium post shares or claps
Existing Web3 players talking about your idea publicly (e.g. on Twitter or in publications)
Industry SME endorsements (recorded, written, or published)
Other (tell us how you measure virality!)

All metric counts should end/close 48 hours before the end of the hackathon (Feb 10 at 11:59 EST)

Use the last 48 hours to write a playbook which includes learnings from this experiment and recommendations based on those learnings

The only metric we will not accept is Twitter metrics, as they can be easily tampered with.

Deliverables Due Upon Completion:

We expect to see the following upon completion of the hackathon:

Proof of concept (e.g. Medium post, website landing page, pitch deck, etc)
Quantifiable proof of traction both upon completion and over time. Show us your numbers!
An open-source playbook on how you achieved success, written and published as an article, a deck, a PDF, etc. This should be at least 700 words in length.

How We Score Your Entries:

Quantitative: Link to score-card with weighted scores and how it will be calculated for each. Qualitative: 40% of the score will be based on the playbook; the creativity and ingenuity shown in finding potential users for your next project and building a community around it. Rules:

The following rules will be strictly enforced by judges, at their discretion:

Any cheating will result in immediate disqualification (no bots!)
Each applicant must meet minimum scoring requirements
Applicants must be able to prove that the company does not exist prior to January 29, 2020.

Resources:

Feel free to consult the following resources about growth hacking and lean experimentation:

Fake door: https://hackernoon.com/fake-door-the-mvp-before-the-mvp-61197ed264a3
Lean UX: https://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2016/02/validating-product-ideas-through-lean-user-research.php
Cold calling for introverts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tcVZtgUWYk&t=0s
How to Launch Your Blockchain Startup (Without Writing a Single Line of Code)
https://media.consensys.net/how-to-launch-your-blockchain-startup-without-writing-a-single-line-of-code-9c6970b0e43d
How to write a social media playbook: https://medium.com/comms-planning/how-to-write-a-social-media-playbook-3b6860d22c25

gitcoinbot commented 4 years ago

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gitcoinbot commented 4 years ago

Issue Status: 1. Open 2. Started 3. Submitted 4. Done

Work has been started.

These users each claimed they can complete the work by 2 years ago. Please review their action plans below:

1) vasa-develop has started work.

Will experiment a bit with SimpleAsWater.com and Dappkit.io for this ;) 2) coolcryptomaniac has started work.

I will try to come up with a great idea and submit the details as mentioned. 3) mxjxn has started work.

First I am building a landing page for my DAO project. It will have a Typeform link for collecting information and emails. Upon publishing, I will move on to promotion and outreach! 4) robsecord has started work.

Using Blogs, Twitter and Discord I will attempt to drive engagement to my new Dapp - Charged Particles (DeFi NFTs). I currently have a very small following of 2 or 3 people on Twitter. Long way to go!

Team Members:

robsecord

Project:

Charged Particles - DeFi NFTs
https://github.com/robsecord/ChargedParticlesEth
Particle Accelerator (Fully Decentralized Dapp using IPFS + ENS) coming soon!
Discord Server: https://discord.gg/Syh3gjz 5) zoek1 has started work.

Start and evolve Synap.xyz, the IFTTT/Zappier for blockchains 6) aj07 has started work.

I have shared the doc... Feedback would be appreciated .

Thanks 7) joramowuor has started work.

improve by using non html for cancelling codes

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gitcoinbot commented 4 years ago

Issue Status: 1. Open 2. Started 3. Submitted 4. Done

Work for 3.0 ETH (805.64 USD @ $268.55/ETH) has been submitted by:

@zherring please take a look at the submitted work:

PR by @coolcryptomaniac
PR by @zoek1
PR by @robsecord
(Link Not Provided) by @aj07

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aj07 commented 4 years ago

@gitcoinbot & @zherring I have filled the form and put the link during submission. Here it says missing link...

Any idea ?

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zoek1 commented 4 years ago

Based on the description, will be two winners for less than 10 submissions, right? @zherring Also would be great if you could give us feedback based on the submission 😃

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