ErinOCon
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1 year ago Hi @jmggaray, thank you for your proposal and for your patience with our review process. While we will not be moving forward with a grant at this time, I would like to connect you with the Estuary team to determine if there are other support opportunities available. I will be following up with an email shortly.
Wishing you all the best as you continue to build!
Open Grant Proposal: Reelspot Media
Name of Project: Reelspot Media
Proposal Category: App-dev`
Proposer: @jmggaray
(Optional) Technical Sponsor: Piknik
Do you agree to open source all work you do on behalf of this RFP and dual-license under MIT or APACHE2 licenses?: Yes
Project Description
Reelspot is building the first smart workspace solution created for the Film and TV industry in Latin America We are building a decentralized audiovisual content storage and retrieval/Transfer solution using the the Filecoin network and IPFS. The market niche that we will impact is the audiovisual entertainment industry.
Our users (audiovisual producers), deal daily with the problem of storage and transfer of audiovisual files during the production and postproduction stages of an audiovisual project. The solutions currently used by the industry to solve this problems of storage (Dropbox, AWS S3, Azure, Harddrives) and transfer (IBM Aspera, WeTransfer) of audiovisual files (Mp4), are very expensive, unsafe, and unprofitable for audiovisual projects in Latin America.
Reelspot partners have worked for more than 30 years in the audiovisual entertainment industry in Latin America. We know which are the biggest needs in the industry and we have the access to the whole networking ecosystem. Our mission is that audiovisual producers adopt and take the advantages of using decentralized technologies within their daily operation (Cost, Security) . This will allows our users to have a workflow that simplifies content storage and transfer tasks using decentralized technologies (Filecoin and IPFS), and also reducing significantly their operational costs.
Value
We want to position Reelspot as Latin America’s leading decentralized storage and computing company using the filecoin network. Our main goal is to grow and expand Filecoin’s network and technology throughout Latin America with our specific use of case. We want to boost the development and adoption of retreival markets in the filecoin ecosystem. With the launch of Filecoin Saturn in October of 2022 we want to contribute to the development of apps that allow transferring files within the same ecosystem of decentralized solutions. IPFS usage would increase as would Filecoin. Latin America would turn into a fertile scenario for new businesses; archiving, NFTs marketplaces, transcoding and transferring video, etc..
During our first year of operation we expect to migrate more than 2 Petabytes of audiovisual content to the Filecoin network with potential customers such as: Television Channels, independent audiovisual producers, among others. At the moment we have the backing and migration of potential customers such as MGE Entertainment, Proimagenes Colombia, Labzuca, among other companies dedicated to the production and distribution of audiovisual content in Latin America.
On the other hand Reelspot team is working with The Starling Lab of the University of Standford, led by Jonathan Dotan, for the migration of all data, testimonies of victims and archive images of everything that has happened during the more than 60 years of the internal conflict between the Colombian Government and the armed group (guerrilla) FARC. Currently, we have the backing of the National Historical Memory Center of Colombia to be able to start bringing data from one of the longest-running armed conflicts in Latin America into the Filecoin network.
Deliverables
A decentralized storage and retrieval B2B solution for media and audiovisual entertainment industry where the user can
Storage Solution
Transfer and retrieval Solution
Content Marketplace (B2B) (FVM)
Development Roadmap
Milestone 1 (15 days) Goal: build fundamental data structure and the overall architecture of this project Description:
1. Development of two layers of Storage (Sealed and Unseald files)
Reelspot Onboardings
Object store
Resource:
Back-end Engineer- (15 days- 360 hours)-$30.000 USD Project Manager - One day- $1.000 USD Sealing as a Service - 2 PiBs- $70.000 USD
Funding: $101.000
Milestone 2 (15 days) Goal: implement management and transfer of data
Description:
2. Object store:
Resource: Back-end Engineer- (15 days- 360 hours)-$30.000 USD Project Manager - One day- $1000 USD *Funding: $31.000 USD
Milestone 3 (60 days) Goal: FVM implementation
Description: **1. Retreival assurance contracts
Milestone 4 (30 days) Goal: Frontend and UX/UI
Description:
**- Dashboard of storage pool statistics overview
Resource: Full Stack Engineer- (30 days- 360 hours)-$30.000 USD UI/UX Designer-(30 days- 360 hours)-$5.000 USD Product Manager - 10 days- $5.000 USD Project manager 10 days $4.000 USD Funding: $45.000 USD
Milestone 5 (6 months) Goal: Go to market
Description: **- Assitance in principal audiovisual markets around Latam
Resource: Growth Manager- (180 days- 6 months)-$10.000 USD per month Marketing Director-(180 days- 6 months)-$5.000 USD per month Sales Director - (180 days- 6 months) $5.000 USD per month UI Designer (180 days- 6 months) $5.000 USD per month Road Costs $20.000 USD per trip (3) Marketing and analytics tools (Hubspot- Intercom- Metabase- Metamap- Amplitude)- $30.000 USD Funding: $240.000 USD**
Total Budget Requested
Total budget requested- $500.000 USD
Maintenance and Upgrade Plans
Maintenance and upgrade plans provided by Reelspot media will include:
Team
Team Members
[Juan Manuel Gacha Garay CEO- Co-Founder](https://www.linkedin.com/in/juan-manuel-gacha-garay-578911166/) [Jorge Andrés Solano Ávila CTO- Co-Founder](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jorge-solano-avila/) [Reelspot website](https://reelspots-landing-site.webflow.io/) [Reelspot Figma](https://www.figma.com/file/Huh2HIL39QJAtLn93dIEru/UI-Reelspot) ## Relevant Experience: We are participantas of the fifth cohort of the Enterprise Storage Provider Accelerator (ESPA). **Juan Manuel** Juan Manuel has worked in the marketing and startup ecosystem in LatAm for the last 7 years leading areas of Growth, Sales and Marketing. His expertise is mainly based on Fintech, crypto, B2C and B2B software. Awards and Recognitions - [Cannes Lions Creative Ecommerce Grand Prix](https://www.adweek.com/creativity/the-big-issue-and-bavaria-ab-inbev-win-cannes-lions-creative-ecommerce-grand-prix/) - [Littio YC Batch (W23)](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/littio) **Jorge Andrés** Jorge has spent his last 10 years working in Product and Software Engineering. His path led him to Y Combinator in 2022 as Head of Engenieering of Littio leading the product and tech team. Awards and recognitions - [Littio YC Batch (W23)](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/littio) - [Mi Aguila tech lead](https://apps.apple.com/co/app/mi-%C3%A1guila/id902706774)Team code repositories
Jorge Solano Repositories
Additional Information
We learn about the Grants program because we meet the head of community of Filecoin Foundation in the Enterprise Storage Provider Accelerator,Mail: jmggaray94@gmail.com