CitizenHacks2019

Instachain

https://thirsty-roentgen-965c99.netlify.com/

Problem:

Companies have control over users’ personal data. They can exploit this and sell it for monetary gain.

Solution:

We are trying to prevent this by decentralizing users’ personal data using blockchain.

Purpose:

Social media website where users can write text posts and look up other users’ profiles to see their posts.

Description:

Instachain uses blockstack, which is a decentralized computing platform. Blockstack encrypts data. This removes the potential for breaches of privacy from outside parties and the company itself.

Instachain follows the 7 principles of privacy by design

We took actions to prevent ownership of data at a centralized organization.
Users’ personal information is encrypted by blockstack by default
Privacy measures are not tacked on at the end, but instead embedded into our code and design.
Instachain does not sacrifice functionality for privacy. For our website privacy is an advantage, not a burden
We secured people’s data end-to-end through blockstack and give people freedom to their own data
We don’t have ownership of the data and we won’t be able to use your data in any way such as advertising
Users of InstaChain and their privacy are our top priority

Challenges and how we solved them

Had trouble displaying logo
* Trial and error
* Played around with the numbers (ex. background-size, width, height)
Issues viewing other people’s profiles on InstaChain
Input field would not pass properly, it always returned a null
* Looking for solutions online
Components of web page would be out of place
* Look for solutions in existing code and tried different approaches until the webpage looked the way we wanted
Didn't know a good way to implement image posting
* This would be a next step(mainly css framework struggles as we have very little experience)