[CLOSED] Naksh’s Participation at NEAR Con 2022

Hi @Dacha , our marketplace is not on Beta anymore, we are live.
We are building the 2nd version of the product where artists can self mint, post that we can accommodate artists with more followers and community (famous).
Auto reach out to this kind of audience, it’s necessary for us to be present at these events specially Near con, to target the internal community and projects.

I would request you to reconsider your decision.

Please, add your marketplace to the dapp radar.

Thanks

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I’m also agree. I can’t support as well.

I can’t see any roadmap on your website. and how much time it’ll take? Do you need anything for develop? My DM is open.

DM that community. there are many ways to connect

Also seeing your NAKSH proposal on Harmony as well did you get audience?

Hi!
Thank you, we were not aware of this but we have included this in our second version and are working on it. I have just submitted Naksh on DappRadar anyway.

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Please check our newsletter that is tagged above it mentions our timeline and roadmap.

Being able to meet a community + representatives in person is way more effective according to the experiences that we have had. We met the NEAR community during ETHDenver and we were able to make great connections then. We recently met the NEAR Team again during ETHCC and were able to make a proposal regarding a grant for V2 of Naksh as well.

We are looking forward to meeting the larger NEAR Communities and smaller projects like ours and making connections which will lead to collaborations and partnerships.

And let me reiterate, that this also helps us find VCs who are interested in projects on NEAR.

As for harmony, we wanted to be on an EVM chain as well, but as you may know, harmony is going through some structural changes hence, our product launch is on hold.

You can’t fully setup your marketplace and without strong marketing on near you send proposal on harmony as well.

I think Naksh takes funds only and didn’t do any development. share some development which has been done on NAKSH in past 2 months.

Share Link here I didn’t see newsletter or roadmap in you website

THANK YOU
HINA

We are a grant project which has depended purely on organic marketing and services from NEAR like the flying rhino guild, stars guild, kalakendra DAO, and NEAR NFT Club for marketing and onboarding. With limited funding, and having never taken a large amount of funding from NEAR for our activities we have always tried to do what is within our budget but always focused on product and quality first.

First of all, building on NEAR and building on Harmony are very different, we sent a proposal on Harmony so that we could be on an EVM chain as well. I hope you understand that building on harmony is like building the project from scratch since the backend languages are completely different. We have already spoken to Aurora regarding integration but they did not have a bridge for NFTs yet.

We have designs for V2 ready, but it is not something I am willing to share publicly yet since our design is our USP as well. We have not taken any funds in the past two months either.

It’s published on our Medium. I noticed that it hasn’t been added on the website, will do it ASAP.

Congratulations on entering the Hackathon and thank you for updating your proposal.

Considering my experience at previous conferences and hackathons, where accomodation is quite close to venues and there is A LOT of food provided by conference, seems to me like $50 per day is quite a lot, specially considering Portugal is an quite affordable.

I would be willing to support this proposal if the Living, misc. item were removed (-$600)

In regards to other comments and observations on this thread;

  • If the team in interested in expanding to EVM, I would encourage you to be looking into Aurora.
  • I can understand the frustration of some community members, I’ve been explicitly told by several influendtial people that ‘there is nothing happening on NEAR’. Some of it may be a challenge of Marketing (hence we have funds available to best initiatives to help us grow) and some of it is the need for projects and developers to be ambitious and deliver. Unfortunately, some feel like this is a leisurely walk around the park while everyone continues to get paid for minimal work.
  • The comments above are not intended as Naksh specifically, but rather to provide context on some of the challenges that we are facing. We don’t have a funding issue, we have a performance issue.

Thank you!

We did not know what the living expenses in Portugal would look like. We saw a few approved proposals on the forum and just mimicked the amount. Same with the hotel recommendations as well.

We have brought the living and Misc expenses down to 300$ in total, if not for food then at least for transport and volatility.

Our first go-to when we wanted to expand to EVM was Aurora, we have been in contact with them since Jan 2022, but their product to bridge NFTs has not been developed yet.

We completely understand, we have been in the NEAR Ecosystem for over a year now. We are extremely grateful to everyone who has been giving us constructive feedback and supporting our project despite knowing that our development has been slow the last two months.

We completely understand and realise what our weaknesses are as a project, and will try to be more focused on delivering what our project is capable of!

Thanks again for your feedback!

Would love your support as well @Klint @so608 @cryptocredit

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Thanks for revising the amount. Happy to support. Happy hacking!

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  • Yes, but your social media are not active (telegram, discord, Twitter (last post 7/21 about participating in Paris ethcc);

  • and milestones 2, 3, 4, 5 not achieved according your roadmap;

  • Since the marketplace launched, you onboarded only 20 artists (mostly from India);
  • looking forward to seeing Naksh on dapp radar to see actual statistics; or you can connect with Metabase team and add your marketplace in our dashboard.
  • how many artists and new users did you get at SDNFT Con ? NYC NFT week? Paris Eth? Do you have a weekly meeting ? Monthly plan of activities?
  • As I know, in May, you requested a list of artists from Creatives DAOs, the list was provided, but Naksh team still hasn’t contacted the people.
  • What the plans on Web3India conf?

  • it would be great to see reports from the events.

Aslo Naksh received $10K grant from DAOcubator. Unfortunately, couldn’t find any reports.

You have $2100 in your DAO.

Thanks.

The milestone chart you are looking at is the first one we made when we set up Naksh. We have completed all the milestones set, since this was the basis on which the first NEAR grant was given to us, we have not updated the chart since, but will do so. As for SDNFT con, as mentioned in the report, it was mainly for creating awareness and was an event where we were not physically present. But we did establish our presence in the western region.

We have met quite a few artists but they only create digital art and as of V1 of Naksh, we have only focused on physical artwork and traditional art from India. We have spoken to graffbase and a few Filipino artists are waiting to mint on Naksh once we open up self-minting.

Even though we have onboarded physical artists we are not able to get more of them onboarded because our contract is not editable and hence have to wait for the completion of the self-minting feature to onboard the current interested artists.

We had not requested any artist list not were we given any from the Creatives DAO.

Again, for web3conf, Naksh has not requested any personal funds unlike other DAOs, it was in general for Near India and the focus has also been that.
But definitely since we are attending, Naksh will make the most of it in getting more artists on board.

We will share the reports once the event is over!

So there were no reports given because we have not utilised any money, we received 10k$ which depreciated soon after, so we were not able to use them, and are waiting for the market to stabilise for us to utilise those funds again.

We wouldn’t have asked for support if we had enough funds in our DAO.

When we can see that in Naksh?

May be it’s your responsibility to convert in Stable coin

Thanks
HINA

We are expecting our NF Grant to go through now, this feature should be live in September.

Yes, but since the funds were in our DAO we did not think of converting it into stablecoin. Another thing is we did not need the funds then, so we did not want to unnecessarily take them out.

But, yes I agree it was a mistake on our part, we have learnt our lesson and once we are able to recover bits of the fund now that the market also is slowly recovering, we will covert partial into stablecoin.

Thanks

Great editing work.
Loving the support :expressionless:
Thank you for the very constructive comment.

What i don’t understand is Naksh have all the time to attend the events, but what they dont have to onboard new artist to their platforms?

what they are actually lacking as talent is not one of the things.

When they can receive funds for nearcons as hacker, they have the capability but are they not using it to push the product even better??

What benefit Naksh is getting if new artists are not able to get onboard from all this events?

Hi, if you have followed Naksh or even have read a little bit about us, you would know that both the founders are not developers and we have developers who are working on the product.

And as mentioned above and time and again, that we are onboarding artists but are not able to put out their work yet, since the back end development is not complete.

And I am sure you would know that getting quality RUST developers is not an easy task.

What we Aim to get from these events is awareness of the existence of a platform like Naksh. And definitely we are in touch with projects which can eventually use Naksh as it’s whitelisting marketplace but they have mostly been EVM projects.

We do want to reach to out some these projects which are on NEAR as well. Which is one of the reasons of us wanting to attend NEAR Con.

And I would like for you to refrain from mockery before actually showing what your contribution has been to the ecosystem, as a matter of fact even then it doesn’t give you any rights :slight_smile:

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You can find RUST developers from here Telegram: Contact @neardev
it’s not that hard as you think. :slight_smile:

Thanks
HINA

Hey guys, can you confirm if you’ve been accepted to the Hackathon, please?

HI @nidhi and @Srilakshmi – thanks for the proposal. I applaud your efforts to build on NEAR. Be on the lookout for a message in your DMs regarding this proposal. Moving this to closed for now.

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