Ad Bounty

Creating new contrat offering templates
No SQL backend
Front end- deployed contracts

Inspiration

Advertising as part of content has been rising- think of a Youtuber endorsing a product as part of a video instead of an automated Youtube ad. This application intends to connect content creators and advertisers over the blockchain, allowing automated payments without traditional overhead.

What it does

Allows an advertiser to make "Contract Offerings", which specify an amount of Ethereum to award to a content creator based on a set threshold of views.
Allows a content creator to sell space on their content by creating a contract out of these offerings.
Allows an advertiser to "approve" of the content creator's endorsement.
Uses a Chainlink Oracle to automatically send payment to the content creator after an external adapter monitoring content (like a Youtube video) view count triggers.
Refunds any payments not made ## How I built it
Solidity for writing a main smart contract.
Truffle (Chainlink Truffle Box) for compiling the contract.
web3JS to inject the contract into Javascript
Angular to build the web app itself.
AWS for hosting and infrastructure management
DynamoDB for off-chain state management (tracking contract offerings, etc).
API Gateway-> AWS Lambda for the backend.
Terraform for managing cloud infrastructure. ## Challenges I ran into Solidity was more limited than expected, because I originally wanted to have multi-tiered view count thresholds and payments. However this proved too complicated, so scaled back to single threshold/payout per contract. ## Accomplishments that I'm proud of About two weeks ago I had never built anything on blockchain before. Feels great to have made so much progress! ## What I learned How to build on blockchain, the basics of how smart contracts work. ## What's next for Ad Bounty So much! I plan to continue building it, especially the components I was unable to finish (contract approval mechanism, automatic off-chain polling mechanism). Would love to push this on to mainnet if I work the kinks out!