Open Grant Proposal: `Pandarua - Sealing as a Service Platform`

[ekil1100]

Open Grant Proposal: Pandarua - Sealing as a Service Platform

Name of Project: Pandarua

Proposal Category: core-dev, community

Proposer: ekil1100 from GreaterHeat

(Optional) Technical Sponsor: If you have previously discussed this project with a member of the IPFS or Filecoin project teams and they have agreed to be a technical sponsor, include their name and/or github handle here

Do you agree to open source all work you do on behalf of this RFP and dual-license under MIT, APACHE2, or GPL licenses?: Yes

Project Description

The Pandarua aims to become a SaaS platform to serve small SPs or who want to become a SP quickly, but lack of resources.

Lower the door threshold

If an individual or an organization wish to become a SP, they need to buy expensive hardware. Moreover, they need to have engineers to maintain equipments and to pay the electricity bill.

To solve this problem, Pandarua offer the SaaS service, SPs can buy sector and seal it on our platform remotely.

Floating electricity bill

As the reason we know, a lot of place is facing unstable energy price. Sealing in these regions are not profitable.

SaaS can reduce costs by shifting energy-intensive work to places where energy is much cheaper.

Heavy sunk cost

To seal sectors, SP need two production factors, one is dataset, the other is collateral. If any of these factors is short, the workers will be idle, and SP need to bear numerous sunk costs.

Pandarua is pay by number of sectors, and SP can decide when to seal it.

Value

Benefits

As described above, SaaS can solve various problems which we are facing today. In addition, it can also bring value to small SPs.

• Flexible sealing timeline
• Lower energy cost
• Better performance and optimization
• No need to download datasets

Risks

• Due to technical constraints, we need Control Key to be able to interact with user's miner.
• Bandwidth could be a bottleneck, user need to download sectors after sealing.

Others

• The POC could be a challenge, it is tricky to find the first user group to test it.
• Need to have certain user base to achieve success business model.

Deliverables

Development Roadmap

Milestone 1 - CC sealing workflow (basicity finished)

Milestone 1 is focus on minimal functionality to achieve CC sealing workflow

Simply put:

• A product landing page
• Users can log in and sign up
• Users can create Miner on platform
• Users can buy sectors
• Users can copy and import control key to their miner
• Users can install agent and run on their machine
• Users can see basic sealing status
• Agent can download automatically after sealing
• Agent can update and push state on chain

NOTE: Milestone 1 is basicity finished, and it is in closed beta stage. Actively testing on calibration net.

Time spends: 4 weeks

Milestone 2 - Deal workflow

The goal is to integrate with boost logic, so user miner can accept deals. This milestone will mostly focus on underlying development.

Features:

• User can use hosted boost (by Pandarua) to receive cc deals and verified deals.
• User can upload datasets (car files).

Estimated time: 8 weeks

Milestone 3 - Polish and improve user experience for public beta

This milestone will focus on improve user experience and system optimization.

Features:

• Sealing status
  • Sector states
  • Resource usage
  • Sector download status
  • Datasets download status
  • Agent health
• Improve UX
• Testing and optimizing system

Estimate time: 8 weeks

Total Budget Requested

	Budget
Milestone 1 - CC sealing workflow	$46,407.84
Milestone 2 - Deal workflow	$92,815.68
Milestone 3 - Polish and improve user experience for public beta	$92,815.68
Total	$232,039.20

Maintenance and Upgrade Plans

Long-term plans depend on public beta testing result. Due to lack of resources (money and human force), this program was suspended right now.

Team

Team Members

GreaterHeat Filecoin Development Team

Team Member LinkedIn Profiles

Team Website

https://github.com/gh-efforts

Relevant Experience

Our dev team actively contribute to Filecoin ecosystem, has been contributed to various Filecoin program.

Team code repositories

https://github.com/gh-efforts

Additional Information

N/A

[ekil1100]

@realChainLife Does any additional information I can provide to push this forward?

[ErinOCon]

Hi @ekil1100, we will not be moving forward with a grant at this time, but will keep this project in mind for future opportunities! Thank you for your time with this proposal.

[ekil1100]

@ErinOCon Do you mean any grant is stopped? When will start again?