Symposium Futura

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  front page

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  animations

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  console for changing settings & calling functions from the smart contract

Inspiration

• Inspired by intellectual blogs that explore high level scientific inquiry (LessWrong, Gwern, SlateStarCodex)
• Symposium Futura's goal is to open the blog to the community (much like Lesswrong has done), to allow any user to create topics or posts, except we plan to implement a financial incentivization system using tokenomics to incentivize exceptional content.

What it does

• Allows each user their own profile
• Allows users to post and read content to the site

How we built it

• Built with React, a minimal css framework called skeleton, and typescript

Challenges we ran into

• Learning unfamiliar technologies (react, typescript, motoko) within the allotted timeframe

Accomplishments that we're proud of

• The site aesthetic, particularly the animations.
• The vision: site of community sourced content that has a financial incentive behind it.

What we learned

• Simple is always better!
• Minimum viable product first, then build iteratively on top of it!

What's next for Symposium Futura

• overhaul frontend with clojurescript, reagent-react, and tailwind
  • more elegant, efficient and maintainable code
  • add post archival system, sort by tags, date, author
  • edit posts, create comments
  • more fleshed out user profiles and UI
  • add sublime graphics and animations
• introduce tokenization mechanics
  • readers/authors can prompt certain posts, or their own posts
  • readers can add cash bounty prizes to posts
  • post voting for most profound content
  • tipping mechanism for exceptional content

Built With

• css3
• motoko
• react
• typescript