No Code Creative Launchpad “DropFlow” + Creatives Voting + Spotlight “Drops.Fund)) + BOS Gateway “Creatives Planet” + Builder Community & Education
Howdy CreativesDAOers,
Some of you might know our project GenaDrop, a no code, open source, multichain marketplace + nft creator, now converting our entire stack into BOS.
GenaDrop App by genadrop.near on BOS (WIP) Check the clip in the town hall here.https://twitter.com/NEARProtocol/status/1677339253963882496
Overview
As part of this proposal we are shipping the following products and initiatives
- DropFlow.xyz: build a composable no-code customizable page builder for Creatives DAO members on BOS. The Webflow for creatives to drop.
- CreativesDAO Gateway (Creatives DAO Planet): Design and run a Creaties DAO BOS gateway to streamline the experience
- drops.fund: A platform to highlight artists’ work, with community voting to prioritize top creative NFT drops, and fund the initiative.
- Creatives Builder Group: A community centric group to facilitate the development of open source / public goods of Creative centric projects.
- Education & Engagement: facilitate the onboarding of creative communities into public good products.
Originally we were just proposing to build “DropFlow”, but after talking to the Creatives DAO council we were asked to do much more. The following a proposal to have our Dev Team working on 3 main Creatives DAO open source - bos native solutions, bolster the Creatives DAO communities, and be on calls as a development team as well as foster a development team. .
Section 1: Background Context
Proposal Objectives
- Onboard more creative communities into BOS through multichain experiences
- Create Creatives DAO branded products, open source, composable public goods powered by GenaDrop
- Allow for customizable BOS pages for Creatives
- Provide a voting platform for artists to get their art bought on a monthly basis
- Provide educational supports to creatives & help with outward facing onboards & start a builder group to continue to maintain products and build
- Serve as a development art of creatives DAO for 6 months as we ship out these products
Our Mission
- To make creating and monetizing NFTs as easy as easy as posting to Snapchat
- Continue to maintain GenaDrop as an open source tool where people can monetize on the blockchain of their choice, and build NFT minting tools that users want, leveraging the Blockchain Operating System for rapid community based development and deployment
- Create educational resources for others to easily build NFT experiences combined & use this new form of digital assets to empower minority communities.
Existing Features
Here are some already existing features of GenaDrop on the dApp
- Generative Collections (Save Sessions, Generate Preview Gifs, Choose Rarities, Customize Layers with metadata, Omit Bad Renders, Choose Resolution, Add Blanks, Choose Number of Combinations, Select New Renders from Batch, Export As Zip), Mint Entire Collection with All Metadata
- Auto IPFS upload for Asset + Metadata (Free)
- Photos → Directly in App
- 1 of 1s (Digital Graphics)
- Audio
- Video
- Shorts → Short form GIFs
- BeReal (Selfie + Photo)
- Proof of Vibes
- Proof of Sesh (BluntDAO)
- Mint to Another Address
- Add Custom Attributes
- Soul Bound NFTs (Non Transferable NFTs)
- Mint to 7+ Blockchains (Polygon, Arbitrum, Avalanche, Aurora, Celo, Algorand, NEAR, Optimism)
- Marketplace (List, Buy)
- See Transaction History and Metadata on NFT Details Page
- Mint from Existing IPFS Link
- AI Generated Art
- Open Source (GenaDrop: No-Code Generative NFT creator, minter, & marketplace)
- AI Generated Text Generation
Some BOS Features on Gateway or that we are making on BOS
- Gateway Built to Look LIke Original DApp GenaDrop
- GenaDrop NEAR Minter Near Social
- AI Generation Text to Image Near Social
- Multi Listing (List to multiple marketplaces at the same time: Mintbase, FewnFar, Tradeport + Custom Marketplaces) Near Social
- NFT Transfer
- NFT Holders with BOS Profile GenaDrop NFT Holders by genadrop.near on BOS
- NEAR NFT Details Near Social
- List on EVM
- Indexing through Indexer (Aptos & Sui & Stacks)
- GenaDrop NEAR Explore Near Social
- NFT Gallery View (EVMs - Aurora) Near Social
- View Single Eth NFT Near Social
- NFT Gallery (Aptos, Sui, Stacks, NEAR) Near Social
- Mint a Soul Bound token to another address
- The Graph Integration
- BOS AI Minter Genadrop-Ai-Minter by 0xprometheus.near | Near Social
- GenaDrop SDK on BOS Near Social
- GenaDrop Multichain Minter Near Social
We are also sponsoring the upcoming #BOSHACKS alongside Creatives DAO and Indexer.xyz to encourage more Creatives, NFT solutions merged with the social graph.
Following Chains Supported on BOS
- EVMs: Aurora, Arbitrum, Avalanche, Celo, Polygon, NEAR
- Indexing Aptos, Sui and Stack NFTs through indexer.xyz
Current BOS Tech Stack (for all products)
- BOS Front End Components
- Chains Support on BOS: Minting & Listing: NEAR, Aurora, Arbitrum, Polygon, Avalanche
Section 2: Product + Deliverables
What we will do
- Dedicated to building BOS components
- Work with marketplaces and infra to support them as well like Mintbase, Indexer, the Graph
- Leverage existing builder communities to pipeline into Creatives Community
- Keep track of existing components, Build DAO, and other components
- Be community centric in our approach to product development, be open to support any questions and provide non technical and technical people to get involved in the process
- Build in public
- Coordinate with Keypom to allocate $500 in deployment fees for drops for artists
- Keep up with gateway and VM changes
Creatives DAO Gateway
A gateway is a dApp that leverages the socialDB to have access to the social graph and multichain composable front ends on BOS… We have a history of maintaining gateways, working with Jutsu, GenaDrop as own gateway, NDC, Proof of Vibes, and maintaining gateway page BOS Viewer Directory. The Creative DAO Gateway would serve as
Features
- Branded Landing Page & gateway components
- New User Onboard Flow
- Educational Checklist
- Join Existing DAO
- Create Artist Profile
- Get educated on how to create a DAO
- Learn how to mint an NFT
- Join CDAO Near Social
- Join CDAO telegram group
- Get an onboarding completion NFT
- New User Onboard Flow
- Domain / Subdomain Maintenance
- Aggregation of All DAOs paid out by Creatives DAO & display of their work / custom pages. Automatic detection based on treasury addresses
- Ability to be maintained by Creatives DAO as FC call or by admin
- Pages to highlight and curate work based on past community upvotes (ex; drop fund)
- Featured Communities / DAO (that DAO can set)
- Feature NFTs
- Featured Discussion
- Membership Mint
- Application feed of original NFTs minted and created by artists for council members to mint SBTs in the flow
- Mint an Original Art and reference in feed
- Post embed check if verified owner
- Display NFT in posts
- Create Page
- Add NFT Mint
- Store Front Deployer Mintbase
- Funds Tab
- Creatives DAO Funding Tab
- Custom Social Feed of Creatives DAO SBT Holders w/ Features like
- Mint Post as NFT
- Multichain NFT Embeds
- Embed all creative related products into the flow
- Clear concise flow for Creatives DAO journey including all relevant links
- Custom Creative Profile w/ DAO, Project, Community Affiliations
- Community Based Calendars
- Keypom Trail Accounts
Important to Note: Scope Creep: in the duration of this build and our time as essentially contractors for Creatives DAO the BOS Web Engine / VM is expected to upgrade. Additionally, the VM is changing and requires maintenance. As part of this agreement, budget has been allocated to maintain this and keep the gateway up and running. To combat this, we will be building much of functionality as components in a BOS based application that can be accessed by any gateway. This means external packages, like camera plugins, etc maybe out of the questions. We are shipping a minimum viable product for this build and want this build to be easy as possible but also be realistic about the engineering hours it will take to be the first gateway for a DAO. It is also important to recognize we will be keeping up with the latest DAO, NFT, Social integrations on BOS.
drops.fund
Creation of community based voting tech where every month community can vote of their favorite art minted as a NFT on NEAR
- Allows for exposure of artists and for them to rally their community
- A way to engage and onboard members into Creatives DAO
- A way for artists with the most engagement in the community to get rewarded and compensated
Why Build This
- individual artists don’t have any means or mechanisms to sell their art without direct promotion through traditional marketplaces
- Community has no means to participate in supporting other artists without directly buying this art or voicing their support for creative work on a regular basis
- Creatives DAO membership tends to be DAO to DAO funding but yet to represent individual voice
- Creatives DAO doesn’t have a recurring community based showcase to show diverse amount of art
- Featured NFTs sections across marketplaces are not community curated
- Creatives DAO as an entity does not fund art directly and has disconnect to eee
- No tooling or system to let community participate in voting for their favorite art
- No solid promotional system to directly attract artist from other ecosystems
- Make more members/artists participate and ask members and friends to engage in voting
- Create more online transactions
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- Not having the power in a few hands who can choose what art should or shouldn’t receive funds.
- Creatives DAO will hold the IP for NEAR ecosystems first community based voting system for creative projects.
Features
Submit
- Require art be NFT minted by and owned by artist on NEAR (NFT selector) to submit to a specific voting period
- Accessible through drops.fund/submit
- Ability to have monthly recurring art submissions automated (open/closing for submission period, or submission automatically referencing round based on date)
- Close off period for submitting art automatically (Monthly art submissions by artists between 1st to 20th every month)
- Do not allow voting period to coincide with submission period
- When submission period over, should direct users to vote page
- Only allow 1 submission per CDAO member per voting period
- Only allow submissions from Creatives DAO members (based on SBT) (Error messages you need a SBT to submit → get SBT here, you can only submit 1 art work per)
Active Vote Page
- Ability for CDAO (FC gated) to disqualify submission with reasoning (For ex; won the last two drops or NFT is fake)
- See number of valid submission this month (green vs red)
- See total number of voters out of total number of voting population (creativs DAO) in progress bar with percentages
- Show disqualified submissions with reasoning (Ex; flagged by CDAO for reasoning: —----, artist no longer owns their art)
- Ability for members to vote for x amount art submissions
- When vote is not active then should show past drops or submission page
- Artwork can be voted on by the community from 21-30th
- In case of fraudulent activity is noticed, Ambassador DAO can veto (by creating a DAO social post) with proof of collusion
- Error message on front end when someone tries to submit and they already submitted the month before
Past Drops
- See all past drops and whether each pearson ahs been paid with transaction receipt (manually marked by DAO)
- Filter drops based on monthly drop period
Payment Page
- For CDAO council members to see all past winners and aggregate into payments
- See how much at payment amount is due for each artist and propose a function (option gated if you are no t council member)
- Streamlined DAO proposal for winners, for CDAO to propose based on monthly pot / vote weight
- Distribution of payments calculated based on monthly pot divided by percentage of votes from the top x submissions)
- Ability to buy
Future Features (out of scope)
- 50% of funds granted can be utilized only within the ecosystem to create an internal economic environment vs monthly draining of funds (Trial accounts to CDAO whitelisted contracts)
DropFlow
Why Build This
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We enable collectors, artists, and content creators to create, collect, and monetize a variety of content across 7+ blockchains. However, just like an artist wants their own style and brand, they want customization of their experiences on BOS. Rather than just creating their own marketplace and linking this, creatives want to engage their fans in a unique way with their own brand.
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With the advent of what happened on Few N Far, marketplaces like Paras going multi chain, there needs to be NFT tooling that is decimated to building BOS components. .
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Currently artists from different chains have a hard time creating customizable landing pages
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Outside of profiles creating your own BOS page is difficult
Features
- No code pages for creatives to curate their own page.(Powered by CDAO) Form based and editor based components.
- 3 Custom Artist Page Designs. Ability to toggle between page designs.
- Include display selected NFTs that you own, that you have minted on NEAR & supporting chains
- Mint NFT → Embed in Post (Custom Post View + Compose)
- Option To Token Gate Pages
- Integration with own BOS profile
- Show affiliated transaction history
- Choose Your Own Tabs: Tabs Can Include
- Discussion
Feeds - NFTs (Choose Chain(s)
- Token Gated Audience Polling
- Portfolio
- DOCS
- Collaborators section (add your collaborative custom pages)
- Discussion
- Portfolio data type on Social.near contract with File Uploader
- Ability to deploy discussions?
- Ability to choose landing page
- Linktree style
- Set NFT as profile image from any chain
- Show DAO memberships on page (for selected creatives pages)
- One Click Deployment for Artist Gateway
Future Room For Collaboration
The following are features not covered in this scope but ideas post hitting our milestones that would be great.
- One Click Deployment gateways and subdomain support for creatives in collaboration with jutsu.ai
- Link Drops for deployments with Keypom
- DAO collaboration with Astra++ being built by NDC contributors (custom DAO based function calls like listing, NFT minting, etc built into DAO interfaces.
Section 2: Budget, Payment, Deliverables
Reporting Procedures
We do not want money upfront, our first source of payment is agreement to support and alignment with Creatives DAO. Every major milestone will be broken down to the following categories published on #BOS through the drop.sputnik-dao.near brand account.
Budget Request + Payment Schedule
We are requesting $15,000 (see full budget breakdown below - percentage indicates how much to be paid of total amount once finished) paid out to creative design, ship forkable BOS components and UX tailored to creators, hold workshop & onboard creatives to their own landing page, maintain gateways, facilitate community feedback, developer group building, community voting platform. This will cover development for almost 6 months (our timeline to completion will be far quicker) and allow us to work closely with the Creatives DAO for BOS related needs.
Milestone 1: Announce & Scope Any Community Features (10%) - 2.5 Weeks
- Showcase GenaDrop BOS gateway MVP and experiences
- Public Post on #BOS, Twitter, and LinkedIn about these experiences
- Have A Workshop with Creators Eliciting Requirements
- Work on Subdomain Deployment of v1 Landing Page gateway
- Ship landing page for drops.fund
- Work on initial frames for Creatives DAO gateway
- Start initial designs for drops.fund
- Start initial designs for dropflow.xyz
Milestone 2: Building Initial MVP (30%) - 1 month
- Create wireframes and initial designs for Drop Flow
- Build out rudimentary BOS front ends (functional) based on aforementioned features
Milestone 3: Iteration on Flow (20%) - 2 weeks
- Public feedback board made available at genadrop.io/creatives-feedback
- Iterate flow based on feedback
- Improve styling
- Initial Launch of Creatives DAO Planet Gateway
Milestone 4: Launch of Creatives DAO Gateway (10%) - 3 weeks
- Aggregate drops.fund and dropflow.xyz into Creatives Planet Gateway
- Clear user flow and branding pages for new members coming to creatives dao
- Showcasing funded DAOs on platform
Milestone 5 Ship Drops.Fund (10%) - 4 weeks
- Contract deploy (if contract part of final architecture)
- Page for past votes
- Admin page for Council
- With user testing
Milestone 6: Education, Product Rollout, and Community Onboarding for DropFlow (20%) - 3 weeks
- Conduct 3 educational workshops; for users, for builders to improve. Cover
- Amplification of features through NEAR Media partners & NEAR Town Hall
- Posts on LinkedIn, BOS, Twitter
- Onboard 15 Creatives to Custom Community Pages
Outside of Milestones
- Maintenance of Gateway
- Maintenance of Builder Group
Support Needed Outside of Funding
- We need marketing support from CDAO communities for launch of drops.fund and rounds around this with prices
- We need support for coordinate creatives dao domains with DevOps engineer
It is important to understand the necessary staffing to make this happen. Additionally we are based in America, and what we are asking for is way under budget, however, in line with our mission to support creatives.
DAO https://app.astrodao.com/dao/drop.sputnik-dao.near
| Staffing Requirements | Role in Project | Estimated # of Hours | Traditional Hourly Wage (based on Levels.fyi) | Estimated Total Cost Per Line Item |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Voting Contract Development | Developing voter contracts | 10 hours | $80.53 an hour | $805.30 |
| UI/UX Designer | Design drops.fund, dropflow.xyz, creatives dao gateway with iterations / feedback | 80 hours | $72.12 an hour | $5769.60 |
| Graphic Designer | Create graphics/illustrations in the application, social media announcements | 10 hours | $50 an hour | $500 |
| Product Manager / Solutions Architect | Project management, proposal writing, daily scrums with the team. Holding engineers accounts. Developing specifications for products. | 60 hours | $70 an hour | $4.200 |
| Community Manager | Organize community calls, moderate builder group telegram, elicit requirement for user | 15 hours | $40 an hour from Europe | $600 |
| 2 Front End Developers | Develop gateway, dropflow, drops.fund, also BOS components | 300 hours | $50 an hour | $15,000 |
| DevOps / Backend Engineer | Maintain gateway, upgrade VM changes. Maintain web applications. | 20 hours | $70 an hour in Europe | $1400 |
| Total | $28,274.60 | |||
| Total Actually Requested | $15,000 | |||
| Discount | $13,274.60 |
Disclaimer: we have not received funding for building out #BOS components for NFTs, we want people to fork and build custom solutions and push towards the mission of making NEAR truly a blockchain operating system. We are dedicated to adopting all NFT solutions on BOS and expanding these use cases
About Minority Programmers
Minority Programmers Association is an international network of developers unifying together to build socially impactful software products and spread STEM + Web3 education to marginalized communities. We are Ethereum Enterprise Alliance Partners and have been building across different EVMs, Layers 1s like NEAR, Solana, Algorand, Casper to name a few. We are full of developers, product/project managers, designers, consultants, and Web3 enthusiasts and are excited to be pushing our way into the creatives ecosystem. Established in 2019, we have trained people from all over the world with alumni going to organizations like Salesforce, Booz Allen Hamilton, Amazon Web Services, Zoom, to name a few.
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