PsyWORK.shop - A Project to Onboard Psychologists & Their Clients into Cardano Ecosystem

[GENERAL] Name and surname of main applicant

Dmitrii Bondarenko

[GENERAL] Email address of main applicant

demianbondarenko@gmail.com

Additional applicants

Anastasia Polozova

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

12

[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?

No

[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.” .

“No dependencies.”

[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.”

The frontend and the backend of the project would remain private, while smart contracts will be opensource.

[METADATA] Category of Proposal

dApp

[IMPACT] Please describe your proposed solution.

• How you perceive the problem you are solving?

1. One part of the problem is lack of Cardano adoption and awareness.
2. The other part - modern psychotherapy related problems:

The global psychologists market was valued at $381 billion in 2020 (that does not include developing countries). And the numbers are rising, especially after the pandemic and in the context of ongoing military conflicts, global recession and rise of inflation and crime.

However, many professionals cannot provide their services to international markets because of strictly defined, often outdated rules.

Competition of Old and Modern Methods

Psychotherapy is a new science (less than 150 years old). There are many effective approaches and methods, some of them are still created. Practitioners of old methods are trying to restrict newcomers from the market creating government-linked-associations that would issue permissions for practice. As a result, innovative psychotherapists, creators of new methods are left out.

Geo-political and Administrative Barriers

A psychotherapist from a developing country would not be allowed to practice online in a developed country, his education would not be recognized by the developed-country-government-linked-association of psychotherapists.

Lack of Transparency

While selecting a psychotherapist a client does not know much about him or her. How many hours of personal therapy does he have? Does he attend supervisions? How profound is his education?

Absence of Universal Professional Ranking System for Psychotherapists

It is often not clear why psychotherapist A charges X USD for his session and psychotherapist B charges X*3 USD. Is that because of experience? marketing? or other reason?

Marketing and Finding Clients for a Psychotherapist

It is often difficult for psychotherapists to promote themselves and find clients. Unlike in other professions working with friends and relatives is considered bad practice. On the other hand expert marketers even if not expert psychotherapists are able to find more clients.

Lack of Work Ethics

There’re many cases when a psychotherapist would try to take advantage of his client or his client's resources. Clients often don’t understand that a psychotherapist is breaking their boundaries or may not know how to deal with it.

• who will your project engage

ΨsyWORKshop will engage psychotherapists and their clients from different countries.

• how you will demonstrate or prove your impact

1. Create a portal where psychotherapists will be able to
2. Have video calls with clients
3. Write articles and promote themselves
4. Build their reputation based on the number of hours of therapy and in therapy.
5. The impact could also be measured by the number of registered/active clients and therapists on the portal and the amount of transaction in ADA/Cardano native assets between them.

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

ΨsyWORKshop aims to create a safe portal that would promote mental health, be a source of knowledge and a sandbox for experienced psychotherapists and beginners.

By using Cardano technology ΨsyWORKshop makes psychotherapists’ credentials transparent, yet preserves anonymity of clients and supervisors.

To reward psychotherapists’ knowledge and skill, and also to erase political and administrative borders ΨsyWORKshop introduces a psychotherapist ranking system that would be based on the verified amount of hours of personal therapy and other criteria.

ADA and CNA will be used as payment between Clients and Therapists. It is presumed that most users are not exposed to the Cardano ecosytem that is why ΨsyWORKshop will provide educational videos and text instructions.

As a result awareness about Cardano will grow as well the number of ADA/CNA holders, moreover users will get practical experience of interaction with the ecosystem.

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

Success of the project will be measured by:

• creation the portal
• number of users: both psychotherapist and clients
• number of transactions between clients and psychotherapists

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

The progress will be documented using the social media platforms of choice (Twitter or/and Discord) with regular updates (not less than once per month).

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

There're 2 aspects of the project:

• Web development
• Community building

Web development

As a frontend developer with +5 years of experience I have the knowledge and skills to build the project.

Tech stack that is being used:

Frontend: React.js / Redux / Typescript

Backend: Firebase

Smart Contracts: Marlowe

Onboarding psychotherapists

It would be very important to invite capable psychotherapists into the project, who would in their turn invite their clients and students to ΨsyWORKshop. For this purpose, ΨsyWORKshop will make partnerships with RUDN, MGI as well as with a few other colleges. As a psychotherapist myself, I know Russian psychotherapy market and some of the old guards who can help.

When MVP is ready we'll be hiring community/onboarding manager to facilitate the process.

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

1. Build ΨsyWORKshop MVP that would let users:
2. Create an account.
3. Learn how to pay with ADA or CNA
4. Request psychological help.
5. Have a video call with a psychotherapist.
6. Pay for the session with ADA or CNA.
7. Onboard psychotherapists & teach them how to use Cardano:
8. Partnerships with colleges.
9. Create educational videos and text about Cardano.
10. Marketing to attract more clients:
11. PsyJournal.
12. CNFT partnerships.

[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.

1. Web Development Major Features // 1Q 2024:
2. Auth / Registration (Firebase).
3. Connect frontend endpoints to Firebase.
4. Video calls (WebRTC) - for psychotherapy consultations.
5. Smart contracts - payments between clients and psychotherapists.
6. Calendar - timetable to display available time for psychotherapists.
7. Psy requests - create request for psy help / display lists and types of psy requests.
8. PsyJournal - verified psychotherapists can write articles to promote themselves.
9. Admin panel - to manage psychotherapists' ranks and moderate PsyJournal.
10. Integrate educational videos and texts about Cardano into ΨsyWORKshop.
11. Onboard psychotherapists & teach them how to use Cardano // 1Q-2Q 2024:
12. Partnerships with colleges. The idea is to invite experts and fresh graduates into ΨsyWORKshop where they will be able to easily find clients and work their way up the professional ladder guided by experts.
13. Create educational videos - a mini course in English & Russian for psychologists about Blockchain and Cardano.
14. Marketing - attracting more clients // 2Q-3Q 2024:
15. PsyJournal - PsyJournal is website page where articles or videos created by psychologists will be displayed. Articles will be duplicated into social media. Here psychologists will be able to share knowledge and promote themselves and the project.
16. CNFT partnerships - Initiate partnerships with NFT creators by offering them to add utility to their NFTs: 1 NFT = 1 psychotherapy session. More info about it can be found on the website.

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

Build ΨsyWORKshop MVP that would let users:

1. Create an account.
2. Learn how to pay with ADA or CNA
3. Request psychological help.
4. Have a video call with a psychotherapist.
5. Pay for the session with ADA or CNA.

Progress can be measured by new features added to the MVP.

Onboard psychotherapists & teach them how to use Cardano:

1. Partnerships with colleges.
2. Create educational videos and text about Cardano.

Progress can be measured by the number of users in the site database.

Marketing to attract more clients:

1. PsyJournal.
2. CNFT partnerships.

Progress can be measured by the number of partnerships and number of people who would make accounts at ΨsyWORKshop.

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

I'm estimating that, to reach the desired results and deliver high-quality MVP, I will need more or less 2,5-3 months of full-time work, which will be spent on programming. (The landing page and part of the frontend + architecture are ready, but it has to be integrated with the backend. Smart-contracts still need to be completed).

Frontend development:

400 hours * 30 $/hour = 40,000 ADA (assuming a 0.3 $ ADA)

Smart-contracts development:

100 hours * 40 $/hour = 12000 ADA (amount of hours and price can change)

Localization costs (target languages: English, Russian)

10 hours * 15 $/hour = 500 ADA

Onboarding: (create educational videos and check-lists: English, Russian)

30 hours * 15 $/hour = 1500 ADA

I'm adding an extra 6000 ADA which should cover the following expenses:

• Firebase fees and hosting for 12 months.
• Unforeseen expenses and extra costs.

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

Within 6-12 month from launch ΨsyWORKshop plans to onboard +1000 psychotherapists; an average fulltime psychotherapist has 80-100 sessions per month with 10-20 different people. Minimum psychotherapy session price is about $50.

ΨsyWORKshop will onboard about 15,000 regular users and assets circulation worth of about $750,000/month into Cardano ecosystems within 6-12 month after MVP launch.

The potential of the project, of course, is huge since the global psychologists market was valued at $381 billion in 2020 and that does not include developing countries.

My intention is to continue building ΨsyWORKshop because as a psychotherapist I see how little we as people enjoy the precious gift of life; how little mental health we have left, how little we know and understand ourselves, our emotions and feelings; and how easy it is for corporations to play us: make us give way to rage or fear... Psychotherapy is one of the ways to get inner balance, be more resilient to stress, productive at work, kind and understanding to ourselves and those who we meet on our life journey.

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I Accept