Trendie

Some have said that art is what makes us human. The emphasis in the recent past has been on economic growth and financial prosperity, yet, our planet is aching. Art is created from nothing and inspires future progress. We can create, share, and grow with art. With Trendie we intend to:

create an economy based on art
empower people to contribute by providing learning materials
help communities get toghether and exhibit art

This project could be huge. An economy for an artist is not just creating, provenance, and selling work. We intend to sell digital rights, create virtual galleries, have community based galleries, connect local artists, provide teaching resourses to buy and sell, curate trend boards, and so much more.

The application was built using React, IPFS, Bootstrap css, Google maps, and EOS Studio. The initial app was built using Svelte, but we ran into problems with certain npm modules so needed to switch to using React. IPFS needed some CORS settings in order to upload files too.

Another challenge was learning a new blockchain technology. EOS however is very developer friendly. Compared to other blockchains, to get a basic contract running did not take too long. As technology moves very fast some of the learning resources we used were not relevant, so some time was wasted there. C++ is a new language so that was a learning curve. The EOS platform itself is super flexible and performant. We also wanted to create our own token, and use that for the buying and selling of digital rights. Also to use as gamification regarding to teaching and learning. We worked on a branch integrating tokens but ran out of time. This is something we will integrate next.

My team has done an amazing job building and implementing what was necessary. I have learned that learning new technology can advance any project, the next step for Trendie is to Promote, Market and deliver on it's potential.