Sober Rewards

A new year resolution app for people who are joining Alcoholics Anonymous. It rewards the users who maintain good attendance, and we built an automated texting service to keep them on track.

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🍾 Inspiration

Quitting alcohol comprised a significant 34% of resolutions for Americans this year, with people possibly having evaluated their drinking habits and realized there was room for change.

🤝 What it does

Uses Web3 smart contracts to incentivize people in recovery to attend all their scheduled AA meetings.

  1. users can lock up however much they want; it can be a pledge AND also a way to invest and make money.
  2. Donators can donate/ lock up their funds; if they hit x amount of money locked or y amount of time locked, they get a corresponding NFT to show proof, and possibly we track data, so maybe in the future, governments will give tax breaks.
  3. We combine user funds + donator funds to return 5% a year on the entire pool.
  4. At the end of the year/term, users who get good attendance get rewards.

They get:

  1. their initial deposit + 5% apy
  2. an equal cut (amongst other people who have good attendance) of all the profits of the entire pool from whatever is leftover.

For example:

  1. Users + donators deposit into the pool. There are 20,000 users. Let's assume users pledge random amounts each. The collection has $70,000,000 in it. $2,000,000 of it is pledges.
  2. 1 year goes by. $70M turns into $73,500,000, and 15,000 students have good attendance.
  3. So, about $ 21,000,000 is given back to all users. Approximately $1,000,000 in profit is given to users who have good attendance.
  4. Users who do not have good attendance get their original pledge back only.
  5. Donators are also given back their original deposits.
  6. Donators are minted NFTs corresponding to how much or long they have donated
  7. Users who have good attendance get part of the pool's leftover profit. ($3,500,00 profit - $1,000,000 pledge winners = $2,500,000 leftover profit) $2,500,000 is distributed evenly to 15,000 users who have good attendance. $2,500,000 / 15,000 = $166 per winner if User Amir pledged $10,000, they would receive $666.00 profit at the end of the year. If User Bob promised $1000, they would receive $216 profit at the end of the year. If User Mary pledged $0, they would receive $166 profit at the end of the year.

Twilio Chat Bot We made a chat not to mimic the response an AA sponsor might give to a struggling client. TEXT +1(205)882-4108 to try it out. An AA sponsor, or alcoholics anonymous sponsor, is a person that guides you through the Alcoholics Anonymous 12-step program. The bot only works by searching your text for common words and phrases.

👨‍💻 How we built it

Our landing pages was created on velo by Wix and the Adim and User pages were made in react. Data was stored on Firebase. The smart contracted was written on solidity and the polygon blockchain. The chat bot was created using Twilio.

🫥 Challenges we ran into

We were unable mint deso NFT(s) on solidity. Additionally, we had many people come in and out of our group. People would join a little while later, saying they couldn't be part of the team anymore. This led us without a 4th group member for a while, as we could only trial-run one person at a time. This constant uncertainty led to a bit of anxiety amongst the group, yet we maintained our composure and confidence until we, fortunately, found our permanent 4th member.

🔏 Accomplishments that we're proud of

Completing the smart contract:

user connects wallet to website -> website connects to smart contract -> user writes to smart contract.

📍 What we learned

For the majority of us, we hadn't used Wix before, so we learned the ins and outs of navigating Wix and how collaboration works best when Wix only allows for one editor to be editing the page at a time. We also had a lot of discussion about design and user experience and how the product works together to create meaningful experiences for users.

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