Iconic Novels

Inspiration

Companies such as Webnovel and Royal Road provide an environment for authors to share their work and gain some support while providing its users access to many good web novels. However, they are highly centralized; and in many cases, provide unfair circumstances for its authors. Plagiarism is also abundant in the industry due to the nature of the work. So I developed the Iconic Novels to address these issues, using the power of the ICON Network.

What it does

Iconic Novels is a decentralized platform that lets authors publish their novels, have their readers see their work and support them if they wish to.

How we built it

The web application is built with Next.js, smart contracts written with Solidity and HardHat, IPFS pinning with Pinata, and version control with Git.

Challenges we ran into

As a developer very new to the blockchain development, I struggled a lot with all the unfamiliar configurations.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

I'm very inexperienced in the blockchain development, it was a tough process; but I managed to build most of what I wanted, for which I'm content.

What we learned

A lot of stuff on blockchain development!

What's next for Iconic Novels

• Implementing IPNS to get rid of unnecessary gas fees
• More flexible configurations, such as free chapter count
• Option to buy a specific amount of chapters instead of the whole book for much smaller price

Built With

• hardhat
• next.js
• solidity