Vowch

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Inspiration

ok, so the inspiration came from my life, itself. So my name is Akil Saji, as of right now i am working, in the intersection between, ai, marketing and development. So basically i am from a middle class background, so when i first came to the city Banglore, it was hard finding the job, India as you know, is a country with high population, and high unemployment rates, so it was hard to finding a job, even after getting a Engineering degree, so then did many blue collar jobs, like, washing dishes at Taco Bell, driving Uber, food delivery(Zomato), i mean, my thing was to, go explore life, but learnt a lot about life, too. That is the space where i discovered gig work, because, if i am facing this problem, then sure as hell, many students, many people, no matter the age, face these problems too, and yes, gig work was on rise too at that time, so that is when i decided, if one day, i get to a point where, i can do something, to solve this problem, i will... so hustled hard, learnt all, i can, in development, ai, marketing etc. So yes, basically you can say, this is my inspiration

What it does

So my app is called Vowch, where it is marketplace for gig works, but with referral, so yes, it is liek many other platforms, but here, the person, who can do the gig work has to be vouched by someone, hence, filtering the right set of people, so basically, it its more aligned towards, lets any, skilled gig work, but with a network. each and everyone in the network, is vouched by someone, already in the gig network, hence maintaining the quality and trust.

So i have built a client portal as an web app, where the the person, you want the job done can post a gig work, called poster, and the person who doe sth work can login, into , and also, there is an app too, as app cannot be hosted, i have pushed the code for it.

So, basically, if anyone has to join, they can scan. qr or should be referred by someone, so as a builder, i have a skill passport, where each an everyone is verified though. Skill passport, so that is the skill, and each and everyone has a skill passport number which is unique. So after sign in, anyone can pst a gig, but if a perosn has to do a gig, then he has to be vouched by someone, and only with the skill passport, that guy will be able to complete, a gig, and qr code verification is there, for everything... for verifying the network, and to identify, the correct, gig person has reached the poster, and thing like that. and if that voucher behaves inappropriately, then the Cred will go down. So, in the beginning, each and everyone will get a Cred of 500, then everything depends upon the cred and the work they do

How we built it

So, i used Codex to built, with mostly with the Codex 5.6 Terra model, the bakcend is in AWS, hosted in Vercel, and pushed though Githb for version control, then used Expo for locally hosting the app and testing,a dn also used Mapbox, for getting the map coordinates for the gig work.

I had some sort of architecture in my mind, but making that into a system and product was the hardest the web app.... screen flow and everything

And integrating the autonomous AI agent Sentinel, run by Llama 3.3 70B model for taking actions

Challenges we ran into

Payment and escrow, was the hardest and verification on how we can verify the gig worker, is genuine as he say he is or vouched by the guy. So it is the first time i am building an app, so the app screen flow, , it was entirely new to me, couldn't figure out half the things, but still with the help of Codex and MCP, which i connected taught me a lot and helped me

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Building the entire backend, two web portal, and an app, obviously and, turning our idea into an MVP

What we learned

Verification and payment still is an edge case, it will take a lot of fine-tuning an refinement, and the vouching part which is the main feature of the product is still unexplored, if this app get traction, then we may have to do something with the referral part, because, that is like an blocker, and a filter system i have used to block out the unqualified people, and frauds.

What's next for Vowch

Scaling up.............. building an elite community, for skilled market professional, who will get gig through vowch.

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