45B - Ideascale<>Catalyst community browser extension utility

[GENERAL] Name and surname of main applicant

Pedro Lucas - 45B

[GENERAL] Are you delivering this project as an individual or as an entity (whether formally incorporated or not)

Entity (Not Incorporated)

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

8

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

No

[GENERAL] Summarize your solution to the problem (200-character limit including spaces)

Simple and handy util to help Cardano Catalyst Community users to navigate, favorite and share proposals.

[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?

Yes

[GENERAL] Please provide here more information on the open source status of your project outputs

Project will be fully open source.

Apache 2.0, MIT License https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

[SOLUTION] Please describe your proposed solution

We're building a simple and handy util to help Cardano Catalyst Community users to navigate, favorite and share proposals. Some highlights of functionalities include:

• Quickly hop up and down when navigating sections
• Collapse all of the chunky thumbnails throughout the page
• Save your favourites and add your rating and notes
• Prepare a copy/paste for you to share your favorites on socials or a google doc
• Additional features and improvals (discovery in Milestone 3)

Further breakdown in the Milestones section below.

Creating a peer-to-peer (user to user) way of gathering/rating/sharing proposals is something that could serve as a decentralized layer of proposal evaluation and promotion that will be of value even in a post-Voices era.

[IMPACT] Please define the positive impact your project will have on the wider Cardano community

This is make the proposers and evaluators day to day live easier within the Ideascale portal.

Also, facilitating the gathering of favourite proposals and grooming, adding notes/ratings, and sharing of personal lists can greatly foster true peer-to-peer community review and surfacing of valuable propoals to be voted on.

[CAPABILITY & FEASIBILITY] What is your capability to deliver your project with high levels of trust and accountability? How do you intend to validate if your approach is feasible?

45B is a Cardano-focused group of diverse Web3 professionals collaborating towards the onboarding of end-users and SMBs. We do training, asset management tooling and find/implement Web3 solutions for our clients.

This project's team is composed of senior IT product, design, development and support professionals accross the whole project lifecycle (detailed in the team section of our proposal).

[PROJECT MILESTONES] What are the key milestones you need to achieve in order to complete your project successfully?

MVP and user surveying

Highlight key terms in section headings

Quickly hop up and down when navigating sections

Save your favourites

Prepare a copy/paste for you to share your favorites on socials or a google doc

Release a Beta version and gather user feedback

Full initial features

Collapse all of the chunky thumbnails throughout the page

Open each favourite from the browser extension

Add your rating and notes to your favourites

Export and Import your data

Additional features and improvals

Survey users for aditional features to add

Build aditional features

Implement fixes and improvals where necessary

Share learnings with the community

Gather learnings and resources

Make learnings and resources public in a friendly format

Discuss learnings and resources with the Catalyst community both asyncronously and on a public call

[RESOURCES] Who is in the project team and what are their roles?

• Product and Project Management - Pedro Lucas, Tech Product Manager (details on https://45b.io)
• Design, usability and frontend - Bruno Arinto and Pedro Taínha, Jr and Senior UX Devs (details to be shared on https://45b.io)
• Logic development - Duarte Lopes, Senior Web Dev (details to be shared on https://45b.io)
• Community survey and interaction - (Interim) Pedro Lucas, Tech Product Manager (details on https://45b.io)

[BUDGET & COSTS] Please provide a cost breakdown of the proposed work and resources

Product and Project Management

101 hrs x ($/hr) 50 = 5050

Design, usability and frontend

40 hrs x ($/hr) 50 = 2000

Logic development

120 hrs x ($/hr) 50 = 6000

Community survey and interaction

60 hrs x ($/hr) 50 = 3000

Total in USD 16050

Total in ADA, valuing ADA at $0.30 53500

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

Unlike most proposals who simply aim for the max amount in that Category, we are providing a reasonable estimate for the effort we will put in.

The value in having a more fluid usability within Ideascale and to bring the process of gathering favourites and rating+sharing them to your friends and peers will result in surfacing quality of the voted+approved proposals and greater community coheason.