Kitabay

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Inspiration

As an avid reader who frequently travels, I find it challenging to carry physical books with me. Although I own a Kindle, I believe there is still room for improvement in the eBook ecosystem to capture the essence of a physical book. Physical books offer the joy of gifting, the opportunity for book exchanges, and even the possibility of reselling. So I developed Kitabay :)

What it does

Kitabay allows users to Publish or Buy a Book as an NFT, once a user has the NFT of a book, he has access to the book's content which can be traded, gifted or resold. Simple Right?

How we built it

• I have used Next + Charkra UI + Typescript for the frontend with the sweet SSR.
• To interact with the Smart contract Rainbow and Wagmi are used.
• For Smart contract development and Testing Foundry is utilized.
• Polybase is used to save user's data, and the library of books.
• Lighthouse SDK is used for token gated content.

Challenges we ran into

• The FVM ecosystem was new to me.
• I built this application solo with was pretty challanging

Accomplishments that we're proud of

• The entire application was built within a timeframe of 10 days.

What's next for Kitabay

• Better dashboard for authors.
• Custom PDF readers

Built With

• chakra
• foundry
• fvm
• lighthouse-sdk
• next
• polybase
• typescript
• wagmi