BWORKs - Right Dev in Right Work
The lack of services that actively offer Cardano developers to right paid jobs, protect their work and grow their abilities.
Experience
Practical blockchain engineers, software experts, product design, software engineering management, QA/QC. Project & product, finance & marketing management.
Solution
Create smart contract based job services that actively offer developers right jobs, commit payment and provide them valuable data to grow.
This proposal was approved and funded by the Cardano Community via Project F8: Developer Ecosystem Catalyst funding round.
Proposal Assessor Reviews
Addresses Challenge
Does the proposal effectively addresses the challenge?
Community Reviews (5)
A great idea that fit the challenge and is well explained in the proposals. Having a good matching platform between developers and jobs could be attractive for developers as well as for projects looking for developers. At this point, it seems there are more projects than developers but having the matching platform will give the attractive projects the ability to reach developers. As a nontechnical proposer, I will use such a platform myself. The proposal clearly articulates how it will add value to the Cardano ecosystem. The proposal is able to scale to address future challenges but I would like to see more about the business model of the platform to make it self-sustainable.
Assessment Quality Assurance
Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_636
- Total QA Ratings
- 0
- QA Rating Outcome
The proposal aims to produce a market place for people seeking/offering job, paid via blockchain. I think such platform would be used by many, both people seeking and offering jobs, could accelerate the development of many products, form new collaborations and strengthen the community. I think it is a very good idea, which would find its application - yet - one question seems unanswered. The proposal states, that money is paid only when the product is delivered (for proposer), and that they guarantee the payment (for seeker). But who decides whether the project is delivered? It can cause disputes, and I could not find anywhere in the proposal how it will be solved.
Assessment Quality Assurance
Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_54
- Total QA Ratings
- 0
- QA Rating Outcome
I strongly agree that this proposal effectively addresses the challenge. The proposal wants to solve - "elephant in the room problem" - in project catalyst (not limited to this however). e.e.g Non technical proposers struggle to find developers who could help them with the implementation of their ideas.
The telegram, discords and other channels are filled with such requests, and there is just too many gap areas which needs to be addressed as soon as possible, so that we can match the right developers to the right jobs, making proposers succeed, developers earn and grow their skills, and help Cardano evolve at faster rate. This proposal essentially tries to address this area, and will come up with an application (both off-chain and on-chain) that will bridge the gap between developers and project proposers.
Very unique proposal, and good luck to the team.
Assessment Quality Assurance
Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_454
- Total QA Ratings
- 0
- QA Rating Outcome
This proposal is quite unique when compared to many others in the challenge. While most of them focus on bringing in more developers to the ecosystem and providing all amenities required for them, this proposal makes sure that the existing developers stay and tries to make them land the right job for the right pay, so that they are happy doing what they do. This in turn increases the productivity, user satisfaction, adaptability, and capabilities of the entire ecosystem. The proposer sure has read between the line, and come up with an intriguing scheme to keep the developers involved within the chain. Bringing more players is surely important but retaining them is equally important. Most projects have failed due to the unavailability of experts to guide them, and this proposal clearly addresses this issue to an extent by making sure that the right talents reach their deserved destination. The proposer knows what needs to be done and is also conscious about the challenges involved and makes sure that the community realizes that they have a plan to overcome them, which makes the proposal all the more trustable and effective for the readers.
Assessment Quality Assurance
Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_751
- Total QA Ratings
- 9
- QA Rating Outcome
Utilizing smart contract to handle the payment between developers and employeers in a open and free job martket place is a smart choice by proposers and this makes this job market place different with others. Though the problem statement targets only Cardano developers, it can be open to any developers all over the world. With this job market, Cardano developers have more chance to flexibly increase the income and improve the qualify of life
Assessment Quality Assurance
Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_1353
- Total QA Ratings
- 9
- QA Rating Outcome
Feasibility
Given experience and plan presented is likely that this proposal will be implemented successfully?
Community Reviews (5)
The proposer provides evidence (references, links, etc.) of relevant skills and experience needed to implement the proposal. The proposer knows, in an identifiable manner, the type and number of team members required to implement the proposal. The budget is outlined clearly and broken down into identifiable items.
You provide a lot of detailed information which is very good from one side, but at the same time could be very confusing and time-consuming for the CA to review. For example, with all the info it is difficult to understand the roadmap in connection to the budget. Would the budget be sufficient until the beta release? So the project is spread over 1 year (Q2 2022 to Q1 2023)? It would have been helpful to connect the budget with the timeframe and tasks.
The proposer asked for multiple funding and for different models of the solution. It would have been good to further explain how each model is independent and how they work all together. If all proposals get funded is it possible to have efficiencies and cost reduction? if only one proposal gets funded, will it impact the success of the project? It will be good to share more information about it as they belong to the same project. It would be good to consider a business model and other funding sources for the future. The proposal offers a realistic timetable to complete the work. The proposer has considered challenges and risks relevant to a successful implementation.
Assessment Quality Assurance
Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_636
- Total QA Ratings
- 0
- QA Rating Outcome
The roadmap is set to end of Q1-23, and each Q is described in a large detail, with many tasks and plans to be done. Even tough I appreciate the list of all tasks and activities, for a better clarity, estimated time frame, at least for Q2 22 and Q3 22 tasks, could have been outlined (e.g. on a weekly basis).
The budget asked is 54 780 USD, but it is for the complete project. Suggestion - ask for funding on multiple rounds, dividing the job by 2 quartiles, and possibly look for another funding in the meantime. The budget is calculated based on tasks planned to be performed, using hourly wages, which seem fine.
The team profiles are posted, with stated required experience and skill, also with their LinkedIn and telegram profiles.
Nevertheless, there are some parts that might be contrary - 1. the demo displayed appears that most of it is already done. 2. Q2 22 - "project outline", "setup github" - I would say that these are already done. Or I have misinterpreted what I have seen?
Assessment Quality Assurance
Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_54
- Total QA Ratings
- 0
- QA Rating Outcome
The team is well versed in the technical capabilities that would be needed to fulfill the implementation scope of this proposal (with public profiles on github. The timeline is well split into Q2-2022 to Q1-2023, and every quarter deliverables are well explained. The team has put good efforts on writing up this proposal and this is visible as the technical implementation details and architectural deliverables are mentioned during the entire implementation phase of this proposal. .
As a senior developer myself, and based on the technical details provided I can say that budget requirements ($54780) are well justified. The budget is very well broken down to the little pieces including both technical and non technical split.
The team has provided detailed identified risks and additionally provided solutions to the those potential risks. e.g. Things like looking for off chain solution to the risk of limitation of current smart contract capacities to execute the complex payment model is one example of that team has thought through at a deeper level of potential risks.
Overall really good written proposal and hence i strongly agree.
Assessment Quality Assurance
Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_454
- Total QA Ratings
- 0
- QA Rating Outcome
The team has professional members who have been long time working in both software development and blockchain technologies. I have the confidence that they do not encounter technical difficulties implementing this project. 5 risks are forecasted but accompanied by appropriate resolutions.
Assessment Quality Assurance
Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_1353
- Total QA Ratings
- 9
- QA Rating Outcome
The idea and the detailed plan provided by the proposer have left quite an impression on me as a reader. The plan itself seems crystal clear and feasible in every way. The quarterly game plan with visible goals set at each stage makes the proposal practical and viable. The dedicated team put together for this looks apt for bringing this product to life. The experience the members have is immense and everyone seems to be an established identity in the ecosystem. The requested budget is very reasonable and the breakdown of it is very acceptable. The requested fund does not take up the majority share of the allocated fund making sure that equally effective proposals get a chance too. The proposer also mentions the project is a part of another project, which makes the chances of the team implementing very high. Thus, I would personally feel giving full points on the feasibility metrics is the only way to appreciate such researched and well-thought plan.
Assessment Quality Assurance
Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_751
- Total QA Ratings
- 9
- QA Rating Outcome
Auditability
Does the proposal provides sufficient information to assess and audit progress and completion?
Community Reviews (5)
The roadmap with milestones and a time horizon for achievement is presented for 12 months when the beta version will be launched. My experience in Catalyst, is a long time as Catalyst is more of an ideation platform, and I see an advantage in shorter cycles which also support Auditability so many of the users KPIs will be long before it could be evaluated by the community. You do provide also detailed information on how to evaluate the development process and mention “Weekly report that lets everyone be aware of the whole process.” The community will be able to see it Github?
The feeling is that you tried to include all the information and it could be confusing especially for nonprofessional CAs. While you can have a detailed white paper/project doc, my suggestion is to focus on key most important parts in the proposals and have the rest as an attachment (ppts, doc, github…), too much info could be actually confusing for the audit.
Assessment Quality Assurance
Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_636
- Total QA Ratings
- 0
- QA Rating Outcome
I strongly agree that this proposal is highly auditable. The team has provided a working demo on how the front end may look like, which gives a good impression on that from features perspective what deliverables and big picture team is targeting.
Additionally, the public links to the github repositories and project website are given. Also the detailed breakdown of functionalities therefore will be easily auditable. Additionally KPIs and how success looks like considers not only the implementation but also the performance of the features sets so that the app is actually usable under high load conditions. This will be easily auditable as more users will onboard.
Overall very auditable project and I wish good luck to the team.
Assessment Quality Assurance
Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_454
- Total QA Ratings
- 0
- QA Rating Outcome
Since the project will be open-source on the github, we can check the progress directly there, and I find it sufficient for progress tracking. Also, they plan to deliver weekly reports as well, increasing the auditability. For progress quantitative tracking, numbers of tasks/fucntions/benchmarks/ commits can be used.
The success of the proposal is defined as having approx 200-500k users (I think it is quite large interval), and basically a working product, finished all tasks and met their KPIs. Also they plan to measure satisfaction of users, among many other metrics.
Overall this section is very vast, and anyone interested on how it can be audited fill find an answer to their question. I tried to point out to those, which I find the most relevant for voters.
Assessment Quality Assurance
Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_54
- Total QA Ratings
- 0
- QA Rating Outcome
Both the individual success metrics from the development and business point of view are clearly mentioned hence making the auditable process easy and fruitful. The detailed breakdown of how and where every penny of the budget goes makes the auditor's job more joyful. The proposer provides a lot of quantifiable metrics that can be used along with the development tracking metrics that can be used to audit the progress of the project regularly. The Git can be used as a visible repository to manually track the development activity as the proposer mentions doing automatic push regularly. The success KPIs and the well-defined success metrics at various levels such as product development, product delivery, and business outcome standpoint make it measurable from every angle possible. With such a detailed plan and team being an already proved player in fund7 and with many proposals in fund8, the entire proposal has all the traits of being a winner and making the entire developer ecosystem merry soon.
Assessment Quality Assurance
Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_751
- Total QA Ratings
- 9
- QA Rating Outcome
The project plan is elaborated in 4 phases each has the duration of 3 months with thorough description of execution tasks and expected output. Proposed KPIs are explained thoroughly and contains both qualitative and quantitative indicators which match with project outputs. Estimated cost is divided into major software modules then break down into smaller work items that required to complete the module.
Assessment Quality Assurance
Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_1353
- Total QA Ratings
- 9
- QA Rating Outcome
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Is there anything else you would like to share about your project? * Please see updated at: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VZGS9ZvaTWWvKaMRopD0THfLCsXTPiNep3d0qnzB2rc/edit#gid=1471126097
Please see our code and commits at: https://github.com/saigonbitmaster/bWorksPublic
Please try our dev servers at with user/pass: master/123456: http://bworks.app:4001/emp/ http://bworks.app:4001/jsk/#/ http://bworks.app:4001/emp/#/
Please visit following to see detail progress we did on july: Git hub: https://github.com/saigonbitmaster/bWorksPublic Git commits: https://github.com/saigonbitmaster/bWorksPublic/commits/master
ScreenShoots: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1QrdgMvj9V2tkgD1st8TUus_PfW92kEtx
Staging servers (master/123456): http://bworks.app:4001/cms/#/ http://bworks.app:4001/jsk/#/ http://bworks.app:4001/emp/#/
In July we have done tasks with backend, frontend and common libraries and utils: Develop common UI components "- Layout container: Menu, AppBar
- Redux app state management.
- Redux integrated Input components: TextField, DateField, NumberField, ReferenceField, ArrayInput, HTML input filed, timeRange filed, booleanField.
- Redux connected React HTML components: DataGrid, TextField, NumberField, DateField, ArrayField, BooleanField" done "https://github.com/saigonbitmaster/bWorksPublic/tree/common-libs
Commits: common UI components" Develop common libraries "- REST fetch liblary for web & mobile client: - Perform various REST query types: getList, getOne, Post, custom get, custom post - Format data: text, html, date, number … to let data is able to load to UI components.
- Backend library to use for NONE CRUD query (search, customized app logics): Perform server logic then return to client:
- Accept the client query via REST with data and query params.
- Connect mongo Database and other data sources like file, amazon s3, other REST or SOAP data sources
- Perform logics then return data.
- Format data before return to client to let it has uniformed data." done "https://github.com/saigonbitmaster/bWorksPublic/tree/common-libs
Commits: Develop common libraries" Modeling Mongo data schema "- Job types
- Job seeker, employer user models
- Job skills
- Job Post
- Job Bid" done "https://github.com/saigonbitmaster/bWorksPublic/tree/backend
Commits: job skill, type models" Backend "- Create CRUD APIs:
- Job types
- Job skills
- Job post
- Job bid
- Other functions & logics:
- account & session, token management for job seeker and employers, admin" done "https://github.com/saigonbitmaster/bWorksPublic/tree/backend
Commits: job skill, type models data models" Job seeker frontEnd "- Job seeker submit:
- submit account
- verify account
- supend account" done "https://github.com/saigonbitmaster/bWorksPublic/tree/cms
Commits: bworks account management" Employer frontEnd "- Job seeker submit:
- submit account
- verify account
- supend account" done "https://github.com/saigonbitmaster/bWorksPublic/tree/cms
Commits: bworks account management" CMS frontEnd "- Job types, skills management
- Job seeker, Employer accounts management" done "https://github.com/saigonbitmaster/bWorksPublic/tree/cms
Commits: job type, job skill & account management"
This month, we are focusing on building an algorithm to select posted jobs for a job seeker, and select bids for an employer.
What we have done: Develop an algorithm to find matched jobs for job seekers, and find the best bids for employers.
- ranked jobs for given job seeker abilities:
- offer matched jobs for a job seeker
- ranked bids for a given job:
- let employer easy to select matched bids Look at some screenshots: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1TcIFxwrdZzR7myxs97ygqr9bG8soiLDF
We are programming for some features: 1-Post a job: 2-Bidding jobs: -Develop an algorithm to select a job for a job seeker and select a bid for the employer. -Check user wallet to meet smart contract requirements 3-Matched jobs: Analyze the GitHub Repos code of a user to rank the match with the given posted job 4-Skills Index all programming languages (662 languages) that support from git detection to DB use to rank developer skills
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Develop data provider, authentication provider:
- Store token after login, append token for each of request
- Perform client query to backend with stored permissions.
- Adapt with new hook based client code. Git commit: https://github.com/saigonbitmaster/bworks_2.0/commit/a10f110affcf45e34d88f75b13450ae1de67ee74
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Integrate API, frontend with extra tools to employer and job seeker apps to help:
- Employer to quick identify job seeker practical abilities by can its code repos.
- Jobseeker to quick identify employer finance capacity. https://github.com/saigonbitmaster/bworks_2.0/commit/30abe708e6cb2d841bdc2dba271c38dee73e22c8
3.Common bWorks project tasks which apply to all bWorks projects to help better product quality code management: - Migrate Api from strong loop to nestJs to earn advantage of micro-service architecture. This to earn the abilities to deploy micro-service based at backend to isolate sensitive data and services from public internet access e.g: Cardano wallet management, smart contract submit & monitor. - Migrate frontend app to react 17 to separate from whole app state to single UI state management to use hook based at frontend project CMS, JSK, EMP. - Switched project to strict typed typescript to achieve much better quality of the apps: stabilities and speed. - Implement responsive to all the screen across all frontend apps CMS, JSK, EMP. - Prepare data and test cases for logics, performance and secure test.
Please see more detail at GitHub repo& shared screen shoot folder: https://github.com/saigonbitmaster/bworks_2.0 https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ocWghogWjeGrURbkjQnMKACRX76YOtrb
cReport
Functions: Develop functions to fetch data from external source and import to db. This to let cReport data to be continous updated and let external users have abilities to update data and admin to validate data before import.
Frontend: - Develop UIs to let admin perform import fund, challenges and proposals data through public google sheets.
Backend: - Develop APIs and logics to authenticate and fetch data from public googleSheets, validate data and import.
Output:
- Admin is able to import data from googleSheet through cReport CMS UI.
- Admin and external proposers are able to import/update data through public googleSheets then this data will be use to import to cReport db.
List of git commits for this month: https://github.com/saigonbitmaster/creport_2.0/commit/b2c8c3678dce0514b88db81f3821d3de0521ab03 - import googleSheet UI https://github.com/saigonbitmaster/creport_2.0/commit/caca664f56f493087e40e58cfa6970359a94a5b9 - fetch data from googleSheet logics https://github.com/saigonbitmaster/creport_2.0/commit/a0d0d626b0cf6621ec567344d5e04be6f8831b41 - validate and import/update funds, challenges, proposal data from googleSheets. https://github.com/saigonbitmaster/creport_2.0/commit/c99eba1c5e4355eae5a091b93a6d75845d294569 - validate data types.
Please see more details at: Our git repo: https://github.com/saigonbitmaster/creport_2.0/commits/master Our screenshoot folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Nrlr6-KRUB8y2VBI5gGqTipvNu8OWFiq
Develop API and UI/UX for task management function for job seeker and employer applications. This to let employer and developer have common place to manage a contracted jobs, communication and change during the contracted time: - APIs to get, create, update task for individual user. - UI/UX to create/update and shows task for individual user on given contracted job. - API permission to load right task for given contracted job and per right employer, job seekers.
Git commits: https://github.com/saigonbitmaster/bworks_2.0/commit/bed965d5ad3f1cabc46bf33ae8355f935012bd76 https://github.com/saigonbitmaster/bworks_2.0/commit/c3d4b63fec3c34006c9bed531ca747b593c24cc8 https://github.com/saigonbitmaster/bworks_2.0/commit/965c642cf4f2e61c9fe5039d82145f4586b9a1f2
Output:
- Employer and jobSeeker are able to create/update tasks for contracted jobs in seamless UIs.
- Employer and jobSeekers are able to communicate and keep updated during contract perious.
Common bWorks project tasks apply to all bWorks projects: - Develop underlying service to interact with Cardano blockchain: load smart contract to bworks backend, perform smart contract actions. - Develop dApp connector UI/UX and logics to connect bWorks app with external wallets e.g yoroi, nami … to show wallets status and perform delegate actions.
Output:
- Users are able to load their wallets into bWorks UI and perform Cardano activities in a seamless UI.
- Users are able to manage tasks for contracted jobs and perform communication to manage works.
Please see more detail at GitHub repo& shared screen shoot folder: https://github.com/saigonbitmaster/bworks_2.0 https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ZI7fYcKKPXhPCiiYIfBKkzO7aE2nc-uJ
Develop API and UI/UX for to load plutus compiled smart contract in to backend server, - APIs to get, create, update smart contract. - UI/UX to create/update and shows smart contract.
dApp for employer and job seeker are able to interacted with loaded smart contracts.
Git commits: https://github.com/saigonbitmaster/bworks_2.0/commit/77119e9c11bfba29e88f7560313985f4a886a572 https://github.com/saigonbitmaster/bworks_2.0/commit/0b6c789cf1e5325299ea0a0156d54c9c6d755d17 https://github.com/saigonbitmaster/bworks_2.0/commit/047546916a6bbcdbd0db3578cc6c2f0860e4c041
Output:
- CMS users are able to load plutus smart contract to backend after compiled into cborhex and created address.
- Employer and jobSeekers are able to communicate their wallet with deployed smart contract.
Common bWorks project tasks apply to all bWorks projects: - Integrate user wallets with applications to perform lock/unlock cardano asset through smart contract. - Load compiled smart contract to bworks users to let user able to select contract for their transactions.
Output:
- Users are able to select smart contract to lock/unlock cardano asset for each job bid. Application is able to get wallet UTXOs, collaterals from wallets to interact with plutus smart contract.
- Admins are able to load and edit smart contract via CMS.
Please see more detail at GitHub repo& shared screen shoot folder: https://github.com/saigonbitmaster/bworks_2.0 https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1ulDLDjM67kTITsG19V9mAiSR4MZGIl9X
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