[IMPACT] Please describe your proposed solution.

Platforms such as Galxe and Zealy allow for projects to create educational resources with tasks that guide users through their ecosystems. For example, a DEX with new and innovative ideas could use the platform to educate their users about new features they are releasing and require users to engage with their DApp. These platforms can confirm that the user has read their material and understood it enough to perform actions on their platform, all verified on-chain.

The problem with platforms such as Galxe and Zealy is that they do not have direct integrations with Cardano and with no plans to integrate

The team will design and build a website similar to the functionality of Galxe, where a user can perform certain actions such as performing a swap, staking ADA to a stake pool, providing liquidity to a certain pool or any other verifiable on-chain activity, and have it validated on the website in order for a user to earn rewards or unlock features on the website.

This project's core plugin will be open sourced and built on WordPress allowing anyone to build and adapt upon the base code and iterate their own version of the interact to earn platform directly into their website. Creating it as a WordPress plugin will greatly lower the barrier to entry for users that want to use or create a similar solution for their own project. The code is easily extractable and exported to other programming frameworks and built upon.

Our main website will allow projects to list and create tasks for their community and have these tasks verified on-chain where applicable. Since many projects will be using the platform, may different users will be drawn to the platform for potential rewards and an interesting and engaging exploration experience to discover new and interesting projects launching in the ecosystem.

Projects that want to have their own control of the user experience will be able to run their own instance of the platform on their own website install.

[IMPACT] How does your proposed solution address the challenge and what benefits will this bring to the Cardano ecosystem?

There are several benefits that our solution will bring to the Cardano ecosystem.

1. An interactive platform for exploring what is being created on the Cardano ecosystem
2. A platform to learn how to use various projects building on Cardano
3. Rewards earning platform for users wanting to engage with the platform, this also acts as a method for projects to distribute tokens to engaged users.
4. A code based that can be reused by other projects that wish to have the same or similar experience under their own branded assets

These four key benefits we believe will bring a lot of marketing and educational value to the Cardano ecosystem.

[IMPACT] How do you intend to measure the success of your project?

Understanding Web3 and decentralised finance is hard for many people. The more user that use the platform, the more users are educated on what is being built in in the Cardano ecosystem and how to participate in DeFi.

We will be measuring success of this projects based on users that decide to use the platform.

There will be two user types:

• Project owners
• General consumers

We measure the project as a success once we reach 1,000 unique wallets registered on the platform.

[IMPACT] Please describe your plans to share the outputs and results of your project?

We plan to share the results and various updates via our social media channels, website and the Learn Cardano YouTube channel.

This will be done on a monthly basis as well progress through delivering the project.

[CAPABILITY/ FEASIBILITY] What is your capability to deliver your project with high levels of trust and accountability?

Peter Bui has delivered on three previous Project Catalyst submissions and delivered on producing other extended plugins beyond the three Catalyst Proposals, such as extend roles manager for access via NFTs. https://github.com/CardanoPress/plugin-roles-manager

Please see our GitHub repo to see all the additional plugins we have created for the Cardano ecosystem around the CardanoPress platform.

Peter has also delivered online training courses for projects such as Minswap and consistently produces content and interviews for the Cardano ecosystem.

[CAPABILITY/ FEASIBILITY] What are the main goals for the project and how will you validate if your approach is feasible?

We will be measuring success of this projects based on users that decide to use the platform.

There will be two user types:

• Project owners
• General consumers

We measure the project as a success once we reach 1,000 unique wallets registered on the platform.

[CAPABILITY/ FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed breakdown of your project’s milestones and each of the main tasks or activities to reach the milestone plus the expected timeline for the delivery.

Milestone 1: Scoping (1 month)

Scoping phase will determine what type of tasks projects will be adding to the website and what integrations we should add for the build. We will also determine what on-chain actions would be useful for the platform.

Milestone 2: Design (1 month)

Once we have all of the requirements in regards to tasks and on-chain validations, the design team will go through the design stages of the site, creating the various layouts and workflows that are required for development. We will open this up to the community for feedback and testing.

Milestone 3: Development (2 months)

When the designs have been approved, the team will begin the iterative development process of the platform. Again, this will be opened up to on-going testing and feedback from users and the community.

Milestone 4: Testing / Deployment (1 month)

Final stage will be an open BETA testing of the platform where projects can start creating campaigns and tasks while users engage with the platform providing feedback and bug reporting. Once we've completed this stage we'll release it to the world to start creating campaigns and users to start learning and earning.

[CAPABILITY/ FEASIBILITY] Please describe the deliverables, outputs and intended outcomes of each milestone.

We've broken down the deliverables for the platform across the 4 main milestones of the project.

Milestone 1: Scoping

• Wireframes
• Design and research documentation

Milestone 2: Design

• UI & UX layouts of the site and platform
• Branding

Milestone 3: Development

• Code development of the platform

Milestone 4: Testing / Deployment

• User engaged testing and final delivery of the platform

  [RESOURCES & VALUE FOR MONEY] Please provide a detailed budget breakdown of the proposed work and resources.

There are two main components of the projects broken down into two areas.

UI/UX Design

• 65,000 ADA

Development

• 95,000 ADA

Hosting & Infrastructure (1 year hosting and API services)

• 10,000 ADA

  [RESOURCES & VALUE FOR MONEY] Who is in the project team and what are their roles?

This project will be completed by the project owner, Peter Bui, Designer Martina Kocian and WordPress developer Gene Torcende.

Peter is the creator and owner of the CardanoPress project. He is a Cardano YouTuber for the Learn Cardano Podcast and contributor to the Cardano ecosystem as a Cardano Ambassador and project ambassador for projects including:

• Genius Yield / Genius X
• Fluidtokens
• Project Newm

Peter has had over 15 years of experience designing and building websites for clients around the world, providing technical services, support and training for open-source powered website.

Martina has been working as a designer along side Peter for over 15 years, designing websites for clients such as the High Court of Australia, Australian Finance Review and many more high profile clients in Australia.

Gene is a well versed WordPress developer with over 10 years and experience building WordPress websites and plug-in integrations for various websites around the world.

Peter and Gene have been working together servicing clients in Australia for over 5 years.

[RESOURCES & VALUE FOR MONEY] How does the cost of the project represent value for money for the Cardano ecosystem?

The costs are determine by industry standard rates that we charge through our own WordPress & web agency from experience working with clients over the years.

Our rate is set at $110 USD.

This is a fairly average rate for a web agency based in Australia. The average salary for a senior PHP developer in Australia is $150,000 AUD per year.

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