Next Step Microgrant: Make Existing IPFS Data Searchable with Subgraph on TalentLayer

KirstenPomales commented 1 year ago

1. What is your project, and what problem does it solve?

Today’s labor markets are siloed. These silos lead to low liquidity, segregated user reputation, and centralization of power in platforms. Users are forced to use many platforms because they can’t find enough work or people to hire on just one; think Upwork, Rappi, Thumbtack, Freelancer.com, Indeed.

Talentlayer is composable infrastructure for open labor markets.

Interoperable backend and financial components for labor marketplace platforms
Pooled liquidity for jobs and user
A new economic model for marketplaces based on fee splitting

TalentLayer uses IPFS for all of our off-chain data storage. We're a 100% open-source protocol.

2. Project links

Core Github repo: https://github.com/TalentLayer Demo DAPP Github repo: https://github.com/TalentLayer-Labs/indie-frontend Demo: https://youtu.be/EAEbYyRAlsY Website: https://talentlayer.org/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/talentlayer/ License: APACHE3

All of our code is currently licensed as APACHE3. For development done under this Microgrant, we are happy to license it as MIT or APACHE2.

3. a) How is IPFS, Filecoin, or related technology used in this project? (max 200 words)

TalentLayer uses IPFS for all of our off-chain data. Thanks to IPFS, we can store long text and large file data in a form that is highly available, decentralized, and cost-effective. We store a LOT of data on IPFS.

Since TalentLayer is infrastructure for work marketplaces, we have a few different data structures relating to work; Platform ID, TalentLayer ID, Service, Proposal, Review. Each of these structures includes some on-chain metadata and some IPFS metadata.

These metadata elements on IPFS are able to be displayed in any integrated platform’s frontends to create a clean user experience. The data we store on IPFS is essential to allowing interoperability between labor marketplaces; this is because any number of marketplaces can reference the data stored on IPFS via TalentLayer.

For example, within a TalentLayer ID, the structure representing a user’s profile, the following info is pinned on IPFS.

about // user's about me information
skills // user's skill keywords
timeZone //  user's time zone
headline // an introduction headline (e.g. "passionate developer looking for solidity opportunities")
country // country of residence of a user
picture // picture of a user

For a full list of metadata pieces stored on IPFS view our docs here: https://docs.talentlayer.org/technical-guides/page-5

3. b) Is this project contributing to the upcoming FVM launch? (Yes or No)

No.

4. How will you improve your project with this grant? What steps will you take to meet this objective?

At TalentLayer we have a very pressing need to make our IPFS data searchable. We have an implementation plan for this and have already started with preparations.

Milestone A. $2,500 - Make IPFS Data Searchable with Subgraph

Timeline: January 2023

Issue: Right now our data stored on IPFS is not searchable. This is a big issue because we need to allow marketplace frontends to be able to filter, for example, by geo-location of a user, by keywords in a user's profile, or by time zone, (which would all require IPFS data to be searched).

Objective: Deploy a subgraph to index our IPFS data and allow marketplaces to search it.

Steps:

Scoping config for subgraph (Already in progress, have an open issue with The Graph team trying to resolve some errors)
Deploy subgraph
Testing

Milestone B. $2,500 - Create Fork-Able Code Snips and How-To Guides for Searching TalentLayer IPFS Data

Timeline: February - March 2023

Issue: We don’t much have documentation or fork-able code to help marketplaces configure searches for on-chain and IPFS data. This is essential to building core functionality for marketplaces and must be well documented!

Objective: Create step-by-step guides for configuring searches on frontends for on-chain and IPFS data.

Steps:

Define the most common searches that marketplaces would want to do (profile filtering, job search, proposal search - sub-searches of each).
Make fork-able code snippets representing the structures of different queries and how to configure them - integrate these into our existing fork-able demo DAPP (https://docs.talentlayer.org/technical-guides/dapp-setup)
Write docs for these searches with the example code embedded (We’d try to follow the format of this example we made, only provide code snips on different configurations you can do: https://docs.talentlayer.org/technical-guides/how-to-guides/how-to-implement-minting-talentlayer-ids)

5. Do you agree to share grant reports upon request, including a final grant report at the end of the three-month period?

Absolutely! We build in public and will be sharing reports not only with you but also with the world at large.

6. Does your proposal comply with our Community Code of Conduct?

Yes.

7. Links and submissions

If your project began at a hackathon, have you submitted it for the relevant Protocol Labs prizes? Include links here if available.

IPFS Prize Submitted For - ETH CC - https://devpost.com/software/talentlayer-2bns5l

IPFS Prize Submitted For - ETH Berlin - https://devfolio.co/projects/talentlayer-universal-work-system-f410

We had two projects at ETH Lisbon, building generalized tools that we will use to improve our escrow and fees system, but are also generally applicable to other projects.

IPFS Prize Submitted For - ETH Lisbon team 1 - https://taikai.network/ethlisbon/hackathons/ethlisbon-2022/projects/cl9uh7tas22416501ttfhrydamq/idea

IPFS Prize Submitted For - ETH Lisbon team 2 - https://taikai.network/ethlisbon/hackathons/ethlisbon-2022/projects/cl9v709a3115498601tpgycvy82g/idea

Additional questions:

For each team member(s), please list name, email, Github account, and role in the project.

We have 15 active opensource contributors (mostly devs) that contribute each week. Out of that, we have 6 full-time core team members (listed below).

Kirsten Pomales Langenbrunner, Executive Lead - kirsten@talentlayer.org https://github.com/KirstenPomales

Romain Martin, Technical Lead - romain@talentlayer.org https://github.com/0xromain

Martin Leclercq, Smart Contract Contributor - martin@talentlayer.org https://github.com/akugone

Quentin de Châteaubriant, Smart Contract and DAPP Contributor - quentin@talentlayer.org https://github.com/quent043

Dercio H, DAPP Contributor - vanish@talentlayer.org https://github.com/CreedsCode

Emil Madrell, Smart Contract Contributor - emil@talentlayer.org https://github.com/empaemanuel

How did you learn about our microgrant program?

We’ve known about the program for a while and are excited to apply now that our Alpha is launched.

If your project was created as part of an event or hackathon, what was the name of the event? Please link to your hackathon submission.

We’re a full-time team, but we’ve also built out different components over many hackathons (opportunities to bring the team together to build!). We’ve worked on parts of TalentLayer at ETH Prague, ETH CC, ETH Berlin, ETH Lisbon.

ETH CC - https://devpost.com/software/talentlayer-2bns5l

ETH Berlin - https://devfolio.co/projects/talentlayer-universal-work-system-f410

ETH Prague - https://devpost.com/software/talentlayer?ref_content=my-projects-tab&ref_feature=my_projects

ETH Lisbon (we had two projects, building generalized tools that we will use to improve our escrow and fees system, but are also generally applicable to other projects).

https://taikai.network/ethlisbon/hackathons/ethlisbon-2022/projects/cl9uh7tas22416501ttfhrydamq/idea

https://taikai.network/ethlisbon/hackathons/ethlisbon-2022/projects/cl9v709a3115498601tpgycvy82g/idea

KirstenPomales commented 1 year ago

Hey @ErinOCon :) Can you provide us more info on the review process for Microgrants and anything else would need from us? Cheers!

ErinOCon commented 1 year ago

Hi @KirstenPomales, thank you for your patience with our review. This microgrant has been approved! We will send an email to confirm payment details. Please note that your final grant report is due within three months and can be submitted here.

I would also like to make sure you are aware of the PL Accelerator Program. This could be a cool opportunity to explore as you continue to build!

KirstenPomales commented 1 year ago

Thanks, Erin!!! We're so excited to accept this grant. Thank you! We are currently participating in Filecoin Basecamp as an accelerator but will totally check out the PL Accelerator Program also.

KirstenPomales commented 1 year ago

### TalentLayer Filecoin Micro Grant Progress Report

Documentation of IPFS Indexing via The Graph https://docs.talentlayer.org/technical-guides/graph-schema

Subgraph Playground https://thegraph.com/hosted-service/subgraph/talentlayer/talent-layer-protocol

IPFS Search-ability Update on Github - January 24th 2023 https://github.com/TalentLayer/talentlayer-id-subgraph/pull/32 *One small bug still present on indexing keyword data. All else working! It's aliveee!

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