Pink Paper: Decentralized Publishing Platform

[pinkpaper]

Grant category

Open source maintenance

Description

Pink Paper is a decentralized and permission-less publishing platform for individuals and communities worldwide to express their opinions and share the information with the rest of their communities. Users can come and publish blogs and other forms of content on the platform and showcase it to the world. At the same time, one can raise funds for their endeavors on the platform allowing donating to world-changing technologies. Pink Paper will provide a decentralized and censorship-free platform for everyone to use and express their views about different topics.

Website: https://pinkpaper.xyz/ Github: https://github.com/pinkpaper/pink-paper-frontend

Problem statement

There are increased attacks from big tech worldwide on free speech. Big Tech platforms are increasingly banning specific individuals and communities from their platforms. In these testing times for free speech, Pink Paper aspires to protect the ethos of free speech and freedom for communities who want to raise their voice. Even Stani, founder of Aave was recently banned from Twitter for posting a joke which highlights the need for a decentralized platform.

Proposed solution

We will provide a free platform which will be available with zero censorship and there’s increasing need for such a platform where users data is being used to profit billions and at the same time de-platform them anytime the big tech wants.

Impact

With increased censorship by big tech decentralized, censorship free platforms will be in high demand. We want to cater to this growing demand and it will directly push the growth for Flow ecosystem.

Adoption Strategy:

• We will be partnering with DAOs and companies to bring their content system on Pink Paper. It will be used for providing key updates and announcements for their communities.
• We will be launching a creator fund to incentivize writers, which will be distributed according to the engagement brought through their communities.
• We will be Collaborating with renowned authors, and novelists, and publish their upcoming novels on the Pink Papers platform, (increasing visibility and engagement of the platform through their communities)
• We will be Collaborating with Researchers and publish their research papers on the platform ( this will give penetration into the community of learned individuals in various academic fields)
• We will be Collaborating with localized news agencies and publishers to have local, national and international news published on the platform.

Key Outcomes:

• Adoption of the publishing platform by major individual contributors along with companies as it provides a fair and free platform to communicate with their communities.
• Due to the Global, transparent & decentralized nature of the publishing platform, we will be able to better deliver to the different communities and readers around the world.
• Pink Paper will provide the platform as a center for decentralized information flow.
• One stop medium of communication with the communities of any type, size etc.

Milestones and funding

Milestone	Deliverables	Timeline	Risks	USD proposal
1 - MVP	A. Building MVP on Flow with following features: a. Decentralized content publishing b. Tipping / Donations for the creators to contribute to creators’ economy in Flow token c. A minimalistic design for content creators to ease creating content B. Enhancing user experience while publishing and browsing, using the feedback of the community C. Building community and establishing the community on different social platforms	8 weeks	No risk	12,000
2. Public Testnet Launch	A. Pink Paper will launch a Community Funding Platform for projects. B. Partnerships with DAOs and projects to start publishing on the platform. C. Enhancing the security of the publishing platform. D. Changing the content template, where users can select from a variety of templates to showcase their blogs on.	8 weeks	No risk	12,000
3. Mainnet Launch	A. Partnerships across network to bring their content publishing on the platform. B. Dedicated section showcasing Flow projects in active crowdfunding stage C. Strategic partnerships with publishers in different domains to build diversified content on the platform. D. Voice search feature E. Admin analytical dashboard where Pink Paper can see how the project is performing and strategize and plan the platform accordingly F. Improving SEO related services in the project over time so that relevant people get ranked in their content	8 weeks	No risk	12,000

Team

Name	Role	Bio	Contact
Rupin Mathur	Founder	He has been a Blockchain Maximalist since 2015 and an advocate of decentralization and self-sovereignty. He worked as marketing head for QuadB apparels from 2015-2017, India’s second-largest custom apparel brand where he established the first VAL (Virtual Assembly Line) basically creating hundreds of nodal points for blue-collar workers scaling the business infinitely. From 2017 onwards, he decided to go all-in Web3 and thus acted a crucial part in setting up Finstreet, India’s 1st Crypto Education Platform and scaled it to a community of 70,000+ Web3 Enthusiasts and 4.2 million social media following. During this journey, he worked alongside brands such as Near, Algorand, WazirX, Huobi, Polygon, Aave, and many more to help bring their respective platforms adoption in the Indian Markets. He has begun his journey to create and bring adoption for the Decentralized content management platform, Pink Paper	team@pinkpaper.xyz

[alxflw]

hi @pinkpaper - thanks for submitting the issue. after a quick review, it seems this is not targeting other developers and not fitting with any of the categories we support as part of the developer grants program. I will close this issue - feel free to re-open if I misunderstood.

[pinkpaper]

Hi @alxflw our product is under Open Source maintenance category. We are looking to build a decentralized publishing platform which will provide a censorship free platform supporting freedom of speech without compromising the personal data.

[pinkpaper]

I have updated the category in the proposal. I request you to please review our proposal. @alxflw

[alxflw]

how does it add value specifically to other Flow developers? please use the template provided to answer the questions we would like to have answers to

[pinkpaper]

Hi @alxflw Pink Paper helps anyone to publish their content in a decentralized manner. We will be on-boarding the Flow ecosystem projects and they can use our platform to publish and make key announcements without any fear of de-platform from other centralized big tech platforms using their flow wallet as their blockchain identity. The platform will be completely censorship-free.

[alxflw]

I understand - and I see the value in it. However, this platform is for content producers and consumers and not for developers. With that, the project doesn't fit the developer grants program. The developer grants program supports projects that make development on Flow easier/better by directly giving them tools/services to be used. We're not supporting any project that is open-source.

[pinkpaper]

Thank you @alxflw Is there any grants available for projects building on Flow? Can you please provide me the link of any such grant program?

[alxflw]

I think it might be useful to check out the ecosystem fund page - there are links to other avenues for funding/support: https://flow.com/ecosystemsupport.

[pinkpaper]

Thank you @alxflw