Goals:
Expand nft-maker.io into a full-scale trading platform with the option to sell, buy & mint NFTs Switch to a completely decentralized model for trading & minting once smart contracts go live on the Cardano mainnet A complete redesign of nft-maker.io Complete rewriting of the nft-maker.io code to make it more scalable and expandable Allow for more file formats & more customizable NFTs (music, videos, 3d models) Integrate social features (liking, following artists, rankings, tags, etc.)
Timeline:
We're planning to have all the above-mentioned goals completed at the latest 2 months after smart contracts launch on the Cardano mainnet (so But we're a very fast and agile team and definitely aim for a launch date very close to the smart contracts launch.
The first big product launch will include a minimum viable version of the redesigned page, including a decentralized market place & support for the most important file formats. This will happen shortly after the launch of smart contracts on Cardano. After that, we will deliver updates on a regular basis until all the above-mentioned features have been successfully been included on the page. Once we've reached all goals of the proposal, we'll continue to gradually improve the page & scale it up to make it a real competitor to existing big NFT platforms on other blockchains. With the combination of the power of the Cardano blockchain & our development team, we're confident that we can create one of the strongest NFT sites on the market.
The team:
Developer: Patrick Tobler, founder of the BABEL stake pool, founder of nft-maker.io, computer science student, in the Cardano space since 2017.
Website: https://www.tobler.io/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-tobler-6593b912b/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Padierfind
Email: [email protected]
Designer: Fahim Popalzai, founder of nft-maker.io, Lead Designer at a successful startup.
Website: https://fahim.design/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fahimpopalzai/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/fahhh1m
Email: [email protected]
Product Designer: Peter Jaschkowske, the guy between Development & Design.
Website: http://peterjaschkowske.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/P_Jaschkowske
Email: [email protected]
Technical Information:
We'll be utilizing a mix of traditional technologies that we feel very comfortable with and some new technologies for interacting with the Cardano blockchain & to stay on top of the current technological advancements:
C# (Blazor) for the Webserver
MongoDB for the Database
HTML, Javascript & CSS for the Website
Plutus for the Smart Contracts. We're also part of the Plutus Pioneer program.
Python (Flask) for building a second layer and the API
Definition of Success:
After 3 months:
A fully functioning web app where creators can easily create new NFTs for their visual art, music, videos & more. Using this web app creators can sell their NFTs on an auction-style marketplace via a completely decentralized model (smart contracts). Users are able to visit the page & discover new interesting NFTs, register an account, follow their favourite artists and finally buy NFTs from them directly via bidding into a smart contract.
After 6 months:
Stable & growing userbase
Specialized collection pages
Partnerships with companies & artists
Financially independent
After 12 months:
One of the biggest NFT pages in the crypto space
Innovation on NFTs as DRM solutions (e.g. only users who own a specific NFT can access a certain type of content - like an ebook for example)
A plan for the tokenization of real-life objects into NFTs
Use of Funds:
Pay founders for 4 months to allow them to work on the project full-time until it becomes financially independent: 4 months x 1.500$ x 3 founders = 18 000 $
Server costs & other technical infrastructure = 2 000 $
Marketing = 5 000 $
Pay for legal requirements to set up a company = 2 000$
Pay for freelance developers = 13 000$
-> Total: 40 000$
Definition of Success
Received emails from [email protected], How my proposal impacts the challenge metrics, Broken down my budget requirements, Defined expected public launch date., How I address the challenge question, Submitted this proposal to only one challenge, Definition of success after 3, 6 and 12 months, Included identifying information about all proposers