ChainLobby - Marketplace aggregation & purchase API

[GENERAL] Name and surname of main applicant

Daniel Lewis

[GENERAL] Email address of main applicant

dan@adadigies.com

Additional applicants

none

[GENERAL] Please specify how many months you expect your project to last (from 2-12 months)

3

[GENERAL] Please indicate if your proposal has been auto-translated into English from another language.

No

[GENERAL] Does your project have any dependencies on other organizations, technical or otherwise?

Yes

[GENERAL] If YES, please describe what the dependency is and why you believe it is essential for your project’s delivery. If NO, please write “No dependencies.”

All of our work has been self funded from the inception of the platform. We have already created a live NFT-gated beta that is currently being worked on daily. Blockfrost hosts the necessary infrastructure to help speed up rendering times of NFTs for the platform, and Digital Ocean hosts the website servers.

[GENERAL] Will your project’s output/s be fully open source?

No

[GENERAL] If NO, please describe which outputs are not going to be open source. If YES, please write “Project will be fully open source.”

Would be a commercial model to access the API to keep it sustainable

[METADATA] Category of proposal

NFTs

[IMPACT] Please describe your proposed solution.

Our mission is to create a central place for web 3 communities to share resources, learn, & engage with communities & people. We want to help bridge the gap between blockchains; helping new people into the crypto & NFT space by providing the help and support they need to understand the ecosystem through the power of community.

Community members connect their wallets and create a personalised profile. With the profile we would like to be able to access an API that aggregates all of the wallets associated with NFTs that are locked in smart contracts on Marketplaces. We would like to create the ability within ChainLobby for someone to display their marketplace NFTs with the ability to buy them their and then, without leaving ChainLobby. The profile would be a great way for individuals to share their NFTs for sales from all the different marketplaces in one place.

[IMPACT] How does your proposed solution address the challenge and what benefits will this bring to the Cardano ecosystem?

Our solution allows for an individual to share a profile of all their NFTs for sales in one place from all the different marketplaces. This streamlines the user experience in sharing their NFTs for sale and allows the buyer to buy there and then without needing to go to another site. This creates the concept of social selling, rather than the traditional way of marketplaces and all NFTs aggregate into one place from multi marketplaces. 

[IMPACT] How do you intend to measure the success of your project?

Objective

• Ability to obtain NFTs for sale from wallet address
• Ability to send high levels of NFT data via API in a fast scalable manner
• Integrate the API in to profile & create UI/UX experience 

[IMPACT] Please describe your plans to share the outputs and results of your project?

We will be creating a number of ways to monitor and share the product performance.

• Monthly development report
• Twitter spaces with wider community to talk through product
• Bi-weekly product demos taking feedback (Already happening)
• Product driven interviews using product activity data and community insight to improve value

[CAPABILITY/ FEASIBILITY] What is your capability to deliver your project with high levels of trust and accountability?

• Dan is the Director of product for a FTSE100 tech company and built multiple products in web2. Dan has run several successful tech businesses in his career
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/danlewistech/
• Kirsty(Dev) runs a successful international software development agency specializing in web and mobile applications. Kirsty has been delivering digital products for 20 years for a multitude of venture backed companies of all sizes. She holds a First-class honors degree in Computer Science.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamskirsty/

https://stacktiger.co 

https://github.com/kirstywilliams 

• Rachel has a honors degree in Computer Science, and has experience developing React and React Native applications for international clients.
• Helena has a Masters degree in Computer Science, she is CTO of a software development agency and has been building and shipping React Native apps since it was first released. Helena has experience managing and working on engineering projects of all sizes, having worked at giant IBM and venture-backed startups. She is a maintainer of multiple Open Source libraries.
• https://linkedin.com/in/helenaford
• https://github.com/helenaford
• https://ford.dev 
• Maynard is the Community Ambassador to Chain Lobby - He is responsible for running Twitter spaces, connecting with projects and the founders, and bringing awareness to what we are building. Maynard has over a decade of public speaking and runs his own business as a master of ceremony and speech writer. He owns two successful businesses of his own and started applying these skills to blockchain since his start in 2020.
• Chainlobby(Beta) already delivered (Gated by NFT access)

[CAPABILITY/ FEASIBILITY] What are the main goals for the project and how will you validate if your approach is feasible?

Our main objective is to solve;

• Ability to aggregate NFT locked in smart contracts on marketplaces into one profile
• Ability for an individual to buy the NFT from a profile
• Ability to mint an NFT with their profile

[CAPABILITY/ FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed breakdown of your project’s milestones and each of the main tasks or activities to reach the milestone plus the expected timeline for the delivery.

Ability to obtain NFTs for sale from wallet address

Ability to send high levels of NFT data via API in a fast scalable manner

Integrate the API in to profile & create UI/UX experience 

• UI/UX = 5 days
• API design & integration = 3 days
• Data points = 1 day
• Frontend development = 9 days
• Testing = 2 days

[CAPABILITY/ FEASIBILITY] Please describe the deliverables, outputs and intended outcomes of each milestone.

• Market aggregation tool
• API to share the data
• UI/UX experience to show NFTs and be able to purchase them

[RESOURCES & VALUE FOR MONEY] Please provide a detailed budget breakdown of the proposed work and resources.

[RESOURCES & VALUE FOR MONEY] How does the cost of the project represent value for money for the Cardano ecosystem?

Costs have been driven from the day rates of contractors in the UK. Rate card detailed in budget.

We believe that this service could be used in many use cases, not just our own. This service would allow for people to have one profile with their NFTS for sale to share publicly, and the ability  for anyone to buy there and then.

[IMPORTANT NOTE] The Applicant agreed to Fund10 rules and also that data in the Submission Form and other data provided by the project team during the course of the project will be publicly available.

I Accept