Detailed Plan
www.DragonDefender.com developed over the past 10 months and has been undergoing lots of testing with real YouTubers, and is now what we would call at MVP (minimum viable product) level. <https://www.dragondefender.com>
The system is comprised of multiple backend nodes that are centrally controlled by a cloud service and presented to the users with a web frontend.
The independently running nodes scan an on-boarded white list of YouTube channels and using a comment matching algorithm (that has been fine-tuned over 10 months) detects and removes 95% of spam messages and 99% of YouTube channel imposter's messages.
<u>The cat and mouse fight never stops</u>
Dragon Defender is Google YouTube Compliant
Google has been auditing our website and our tools to ensure we are using their Google YouTube API responsibly and have rewarded us with the Seal of Approval that means we can use their API with confidence.
We will continue to be audited and work with Google and together we will offer to our customers the fastest and most reliable service we can.
Dragon Defender History
DragonDefender.com was built from seeing a video from Charles Hoskinson back in 2020 stating how much spam and imposters comments he was receiving on his YouTube channel.
Now nearly a year on we have been building and testing the alpha then beta version and now monitor a selected number of Cardano based YouTube channels every 30 seconds and have deleted over 500,000 spam messages.
The biggest YouTube channel we look after has over 550k subscribers and has Cardano videos 3 or 4 times a week, we also look after other Cardano based channels that are growing at a fast pace such as:
"Kaizen Crypto" (22k subscribers) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyf3zGnYK9jcF_mlRc_ztEA
"Cardano With Paul" (53k subscribers) <https://www.youtube.com/c/CardanoWithPaul>
Project Catalyst History
I am proud to have been selected as part of the Founder 50 members in Fund 1 and my team and I have delivered the Fund 3 project <https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Visual-Studio-Smart-Contract-Plugin/333827-48088> and are currently working on the Fund 4 project <https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Visual-Studio-Code-Market-Plugin/341436-48088>
Roadmap
Please see our website for the latest roadmap
<https://www.dragondefender.com/roadmap.php>
Costs
Costs will follow.
We have self-funded this project for almost a year and although we will continue to fund dragondefender.com to have real impact the infrastructure needs investment. We can only scale about 30 YouTubers with the current model.
The current design allows for an unlimited amount of nodes so scalability has been built in however we need to incentivize people to run a node. We therefore want to build a Host-To-Earn model where we can reward node hosts to help the system grow.
Another major milestone is to move away from the central cloud hosting to be completely decentralized. We know how to do this but need funds to build and test.
It is natural to offer multiple services to our customers and we have started to build and would like to continue building a similar tool for Twitter.
What is success?
Success will be for the system to be able to expand and help 100's of YouTube channels and other social media platforms to fight the Spammers and Imposters.
The ultimate goal is to keep the service free to all Cardano Community members that promote the blockchain on the many different social media platforms.
IP
Unfortunately the IP cannot be shared, if the spammer and imposters knew our secrets the service would not work. We are keen to make some elements open source and work with others to help build the tools, and we are exploring ways this can be achieved.
What will the funds be used for?
Some of the funds will be used to scale the project and pay for additional hardware resources and the remaining will go towards adding an additional member to our team that will help to develop the software further. The funds will only last 3 months at which point we will continue to fund the "Free to Cardano Influencers" project ourselves, but the funding will be vital in allowing the project to get off the ground successfully.
