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Based on market research the product seems viable; the end product will be an application and web-based solution for aggregating existing tools in the web 2 space and sourcing work for the Web3 space.

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F8: DApps and Integrations, F8: Miscellaneous Challenge

Inspiration

I have four years of experience in the blockchain and e-commerce space. I am about to graduate from college in a couple of months and for the past 8 months I have been looking to start my career in the blockchain space but sadly I am not a developer, yet, so the job search has been tedious.

Recently I attended the Cardano Summit and EthDenver events and discovered that I wasn't the only one having difficulties understanding the needs of this emerging industry. Even experienced professionals are having difficulties understanding what differentiates blockchain technology from others and many computer scientist aren't sure how to showcase their talent, what certifications are available, or where to learn Solidity or Haskell.

This need is what inspired this project.

What is it and why is it needed?

As a point of reference, this projects MVP can be thought of in two parts. One as a career recruitment application for Web3 specifically. Two, as a hub for accessing and posting to social media tools such as Twitter, Discord, Telegram, Reddit, and others.

The first and most important part of this application is its function as a recruitment tool for the Web3 space.

There are many different recruiter websites already; LinkedIn, Indeed, Career Builder, etc. but these existing recruiter sites address multiple established industries. There are also many different “Web3” based recruiter webpages that have sprung up within the last year, with postings such as “CEO of DAO needed”, “Lead Blockchain Developer”, “VP of Treasury” and many more bogus job postings. From my perspective the most legitimate of these web pages is web3.career but it only serves as a forwarding site for job postings to other career pages some of which are out of date.

There is no main player in this space and none of them address the issues I and many others have had to navigate such as:

  1. How do I find developers that are available and who come with recommendations from trusted sources or are vetted in some way?

  2. How do I learn to code, where do I start, or what coding languages should I know for different projects?

  3. What other roles are needed in the space besides being a developer?

  4. What exists in this new world how do I see all of them at one time and how can I keep up to date with everything that’s occurring is a reasonable way?

There are people eager to learn who don’t know where to start and there are people eager for talent but can’t find it, this solution aims to bridge that gap.

The second portion of this application aims to address the practical factors of this space.

Out of a test group of 51 people, 50% said they were looking for work in the space, 80% said they had over 10 different tools or webpages that they used to track their favorite project or learn about new ones and 39.1% said they had extreme difficulties finding work related to their skillset.

This data, although it is a very small test group, does help to illustrate the demand for structure in this space. This tool can provide that by being an aggregator for all the different tools us as individuals use while catering to individuals needs. For example a day trader is going to have different interests and needs than a developer, this tool will cater to individuals separately.

Revenue Structure

I got into the blockchain world because I have been on the advertising side of social media and because I want to create and be a part of a new set of tools that respect privacy.

This tool will be guided by those morals.

I would like to build this application as a DAPP on the Cardano blockchain and incentivize staking on the platform by rewarding users for their watch time which would be increased due to their usage of the dashboard which connects to traditional Web2 application.

The overall revenue structure as of now is based off businesses and consumers staking ADA in order to access different features of the application while keeping publishing algorithms fair and consistent.

There are two different staking structures one for consumers and one for businesses looking to advertise or have priority messaging/advertising on the platform.

For general consumers the structure would be gamified. For example the more ADA you stake the more perks or access to unique feature you would receive such as animated banners or profiles.

For businesses focused on recruitment or advertising, staking fees would be higher and there would be a randomized shuffles in terms of advertising priority. There would be set limits on how much ADA and entity could stake and a smart contract would determine where messaging was pushed out to so that consumer data is protected and governed by a smart contract. Depending on the click through rate or levels of user interactions on a post only so much ADA would be reallocated back these businesses and the rest would be distributed to its users as staking rewards.

For now this is just a concept, it need to be thought through more.

Conclusion

Overall I believe their is a need for this product in the space and as well as demand. This is a product that I would love to create and have in my life, thank you for your time.

Built With

  • haskell
  • react.js
  • spss
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