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2 years ago Hi @d3fkon, this grant has been approved! We will be in touch by email to discuss next steps.
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ErinOCon
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2 years ago Hi @d3fkon, this grant has been approved! We will be in touch by email to discuss next steps.
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2 years ago Thank for your support @ErinOCon. Looking forward to the email and future collaborations!!
Open Grant Proposal:
Flaq AcademyName of Project: Flaq Academy
Proposal Category: Choose one of
app-devProposer:
d3fkonDo 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
Our Vision
Flaq Academy’s contributors are united by our mission to onboard millions people to Web3.
In India, two-thirds of people are crypto curious. These people deserve a web3 onramp that isn’t fraught with scams and misinformation.
We're making quality web3 education. We're creating quality "explain like I'm five" learning paths backed by a thriving community and SuperteamDAO members
Why Flaq Academy?
Countless industries from financial services to art and medicine are being reconstructed by the promise of web3 — a paradigm shift to decentralized technologies owned by builders and users.
Education, an industry that has remained more or less the same for a long time is following a similar path.
If we think about it from the perspective of how education has changed with the different versions of the web:
Flaq opens new doors for a wealth of opportunities for the future of education. For most of history, education has been something only a small percentage of the population has access to. While other institutions provided opportunities for socializing, research, learning, and measurable credentials, it left a lot of people out.
And there are a few good reasons why. Constant education is one.
Our Values
Problem
Most of the edtech products right now are don't have the right incentive mechanism to stay accessible, high quality and up-to-date.
The traditional model of charging users for attending courses, is broken. This optimizes for increasing the number of people coming through the front doors of the course. Once they are in, there is not much incentive to actually deliver a good learning experience. It quickly shifts from a game of education to a game of marketing.
Solution
We think this can be fixed. This can be fixed with clear crypto-economic incentives that aligns with the actual learning outcomes of the learners. We're creating a Flaq DAO, one that is decentralized and permissionless. What does the Stanford native to the internet look like?
We believe that people learn best together. Our upcoming Web3 courses will feature:
Our vision is to enable the next 10M people enter the Web3 space and familiarize themselves with the majority of protocols and applications including IPFS.
We intend to educate the vast majority of developers & Web3 enthusiasts through:
Value
Apart from centralized paid platforms, like Udemy, Scalar and Unacademy, there is no one “name” which users associate to learn about web3. Flaq intends to be the go-to platform where web2 users can learn and get accustomed to web3.
Joining our DAO is as simple as signing up on the Flaq Mobile App or the Decentralized Web App.
We expect users on our platform to be first time web3 users, where we help them do everything from setup their first wallet, learn about and discover DAO’s, join DAO’s, learn about and get introduced to open-source projects, etc.
We are partnering with various DAO’s to help craft this curriculum and onboard the next wave of web3 users in a seamless way.
Flaq opens new doors for a wealth of opportunities for the future of education. For most of history, education has been something only a small percentage of the population has access to. While other institutions provided opportunities for socializing, research, learning, and measurable credentials, it left a lot of people out.
All courses created by the DAO will be stored on web3.storage The NFT’s users receive after completing a course will be stored using nft.storage Some of the tracks planned for launch:
Non Technical Tracks
Technical Tracks
Deliverables
All this along with the roadmap planned below
Target Audience We are targeting beginners in web3, as well as web2 developers who are looking at web3. Completion of tracks demands, taking up a 10 point quiz, which would determine the impact of the course on the user. Users also accumulate FLAQ Points for successful completion, which acts as the in-app point to unlock more courses, thus gamifying the system
Outcome of Flaq Being a member of SuperteamDAO, we have the marketing push from SuperteamDAO's socials along the same support from Solana's ecosystem. If our development phase is executed well with your support, we are aiming for 100k app downloads by the end of December, and a steady growth of 40% month on month. We expect a 30% monthly user retention rate and over 40% of all users completing at least one course on the application. We expect to meet user's demands and have a positive feedback loop of producing more courses as users request for the same
Development Roadmap
Phase 1: (17,000 USD)
Launching the first version of the mobile app and a CMS:
Phase 2: (17,000 USD)
Phase 3:
DAO Phase (14,000 USD)
Total Budget Requested
Total budget requested to deploy Flaq: 48,000 USD
Maintenance and Upgrade Plans
We intend to maintain our DAO and create a successful creator economy incentivising the contributors for minimum of 10 years.
Team
Team Members
Ashwin Prasad - Tech Lead + DAO Contributor + Core Member
Email - d3fkonmusic@gmail.com
Github - https://github.com/flaq-academy
I’m an Engineering Graduate Gold Medalist from VTU, ranking top 50 in India.
I’m also a member of Solana’s Superteam DAO, where I contribute and help developers get into the Solana ecosystem. I have led multiple projects in my professional career, consulting for companies like Target, iHeart Media, and TATA. While more relevantly winning the most recent Solana Hacker House and working with a web3 wallet project. I have been associated in educating various developers via SkillRary, where I helped onboard 10k users on-to web3
The other senior members for this Dao are as follows.
Plus 10+ amazing contributors in our DAO who are working on writing learning guides, growing the community, and localizing our content.
Initial videos from our DAO contributors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0eqlZVB1Jo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-H-DM7fzaA
We intend to produce content in various languages, to break any language barrier that might exist
Team Member LinkedIn Profiles
Ashwin Prasad - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashwinxprasad/
Team Website
https://flaq.club
Relevant Experience
Being a part of SuperteamDAO we help the most promising projects in the Solana ecosystem in the ascending world (India, South East Asia, Eastern Europe, and Africa) launch and grow. We are organized as a co-operative of creatives, developers, and operators who are experienced in launching and growing technology businesses.
Team code repositories
Our code is completely open sourced and MIT Licensed and actively developed on by me and the rest of our contributors -
https://github.com/flaq-academy [UPDATED LINK]
Additional Information
d3fkonmusic@gmail.com