FAN DAO

Inspiration

The world needs a decentralised autonomous Patreon / Only Fans / Kickstarter (with on-going community).

What it does

MavinDAO enables creators to build subDAOs for their community and fans. Fans then have the ability to vote on the path the creator will take. Imagine a musician who lets you vote on what songs they will play at their next show? A TV show like Bandersnatch that lets you vote on the storyline. An artist that lets you have a say on their next NFT drop! An indie game dev that lets you decide on characters and levels.

How we built it

View our smart contract code here: https://github.com/MavinDAO/MavinDAO/blob/main/smartcontract.sol
Creators can deploy smart contracts via our website using web3.js. We used web3.eth.Contract https://web3js.readthedocs.io/en/v1.2.11/web3-eth-contract.html
Moloch: https://github.com/MolochVentures/moloch
Polygon: for cost efficiency
Web3.js
DigitalOcean: cloud for developers <3

Challenges we ran into

It's expensive to create a DAO using services like Aragon, Alchemy, Moralis etc. due to gas fees. We used Moloch instead. We wanted to do Solana development and spent the first few days learning Solana (got the dev environment up and running and were able to build out our first SOL dApp). We then decided to pivot and use Polygon because one of our team members has more experience with it.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

One of our engineers built their first every dApp (using Solana). She hadn't built anything with blockchain before that but she was able to pick it up in 1 day (Solana dev docs rock!).

What we learned

Gas fees are one of the hurdles when doing development work. It'd be nice to have more ways to do development without having to pay gas (testnet is good... need more tools like that). Main struggle was that it is expensive to create a DAO using services like Aragon, Alchemy, Moralis etc. due to gas. We used Moloch instead. https://github.com/MolochVentures/moloch