Closed seichris closed 2 years ago
ErinOCon
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2 years ago Hi @seichris, thank you for your proposal! While we are currently not looking to outsource this type of program work, it's great to see projects committed to making the grant process scalable. Wishing you the best on all future projects!
seichris
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2 years ago Thanks for your answer! @ErinOCon
Our tool's main use case rn is allowing dApp communities prioritize user feedback - similar to canny.io
Even we couldn't make the grant program, I'd love to have a chat with you to see if Filecoin-based apps would be interested in using us :)
Open Grant Proposal:
BetterName of Project: Better Grants board
Proposal Category:
app-devProposer: @seichris
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
We aim to increase the number of high-quality grant applications the Filecoin team receives, while reducing the admin work of vetting each one by themselves.
Achieving this is a matter of matching great ideas with great teams that can execute them. The challenge is that
Our platform
Value
Benefits
By hosting a Better page, Filecoin
Builders get
Existing Filecoin-based projects get
Risks
It’s very straightforward to set up our tool, since Filecoin already manages grant applications on Github issues. It is easy to iterate, which reduces the risks of failing.
We already deployed a demo board at https://fil.betterhq.org/, which mirrors the issues in https://github.com/better-feedback/better-fil/issues . We will help you to set up your own board in the Filecoin design language and host it at a filecoin subdomain.
Our main challenge will be feeding great project ideas into the platform, as the first leg of scaling our ‘marketplace for ideas’.
Deliverables
Better will consist of:
Development Roadmap
Milestone 1: Designs
🧑🤝🧑 Chris as designer, Philipp conducting user testing 💶 $10k ⌛ 2 weeks
Milestone 2: Github API that feeds UI from Github issues
🧑🤝🧑Aimen as full-stack coder 💶 $5k ⌛ 1 week
Milestone 3: Hosted interface
🧑🤝🧑 Chris as frontend, Aimen as full-stack coder 💶 $15k ⌛ 3 weeks
Milestone 4: Quadratic funding
🧑🤝🧑 Chris as frontend, Aimen as full-stack coder 💶 $15k ⌛ 3 weeks
Quadratic funding mechanism serves as a sybil-resistant signal of value for each idea.
Milestone 5: Discord bot and Twitter bot
🧑🤝🧑 Chris as frontend, Aimen as full-stack coder 💶 $5k ⌛ 1 week
Total Budget Requested
We're requesting a total funding of $50,000 to complete all the above milestones, and the fund will be split into:
Design, development and running the API and bot infrastructure.
Maintenance and Upgrade Plans
Beyond scaling and streamlining the Filecoin grants program, we will use our platform to streamline onboarding flows for any Filecoin-based DAOs and DApps — From team formation for hackathons, collecting user feedback, to outsourcing development or content contributions in bounties.
Scaling our own platform will keep us maintaining the infrastructure and upgrade our frontend and API feature set.
Team
Team Members
Aimen: Full-stack dev https://github.com/aimensahnoun Chris: Design, product, frontend https://github.com/seichris https://twitter.com/chriscyph Philipp: User testing, product UX https://twitter.com/Philiff Izzy: Advising on DAO bounties and grant flows https://github.com/isidorosp
Team Website
https://betterhq.org/
Relevant Experience
We’ve each been working on crypto projects for >4 years. Related projects include a demo of a decentralized jobs platform https://decentrajobs.aimensahnoun.com/, and a Filecoin-based Social Media DApp https://kontext-1ds9andww-kontext.vercel.app/.
Besides side projects, we are working for one of the anon bluechip DeFi DAOs, for imToken, LIDO and studying at ITU.
Team code repositories
https://github.com/better-feedback/web https://github.com/aimensahnoun/DecentraJobs
Additional Information
We learned about the grants program from friends working in the same space. chris@web3.consulting