I have been thinking about the project, evaluating its viability and potential. I took a look at the existing Poap to see if POP really brings anything valuable beyond Poap. And so it is. Poap focuses on organizations that provide certificates of attendance, somewhat "centralized" in reality, as they require the organization to issue a ticket confirming attendance, and are limited to organized events only.
POP goes further and gives users the freedom to issue their Poap in any situation, going beyond a simple NFT by providing valuable metadata to confirm POP's claims. While Poap can also include metadata, it depends on the organization. Geolocating Poap for the organization may not make much sense, since the location of the event is already implied.
What POP brings:
Allows users to check events in real time anywhere; Geolocation is crucial here. Allows the association of images as evidence, such as attendance at an event. Your own selfie adds authenticity beyond the images provided by the organization. . It adds valuable metadata, with geolocation being an important asset: your photo with date and location. I think these aspects really make POP valuable, as it offers autonomy to create valid tests, something that Poap lacks.
I have been contemplating commercial applications as commercial viability often determines success. If you imagine its use in verifying car deliveries, for example, photographs showing the perfect condition of the car and an image of the key handover are valuable. In this case, geolocation may not be crucial; On the other hand, the date, time and images that demonstrate the condition of the car are essential.
To improve this, uploading a signed document, such as a PDF stored in IPFS associated with POP, could reliably document the delivery of the car, including photos, videos, date, and the document signed by the customer.
Considering additional improvements, for example for event attendance, having a timestamp and geolocation confirms that the user was at a certain location at a specific time, such as 3:00 p.m. Check if they remain in the same place at 7:00 p.m. reliably verifies 4-hour event attendance. Implementing this may not be easy, but it could be a significant improvement.
Perhaps there could be value in a POP startup process that allows images to be loaded at a specific time, wait until the user decides to close the process, add more photos with different timestamps before closing, and finally create POPs with these various images and timestamps. You could say: "I was here at this moment, at this moment and at this moment."
I'm not sure I can upload a new photo to an existing POP and have the new images with updated timestamps complement the existing ones. If successful, you could provide more information about your participation in an event, such as "This photo shows that I was there on the 17th at 9:00, 15:00 and 19:00. And on the 18th at 10:30 and 14:00: fifteen."
These are some reflections on how to enrich and strengthen the idea, taking advantage of its strengths and advantages.
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