New set of daily tooling for Cardano developers

[GENERAL] Name and surname of main applicant

Michal Urbanek

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

Entity (Incorporated)

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

6

[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)

We create and make available a lot of features that developers will absolutely love! It will be a new version of Cexplorer with a perfect UX, accessibility and a set of everyday tools, we promise!

[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

The entire frontend will be open sourced.

Of course we will provide enough HW power to be able to make the api server open to developers in the long term (not for enterprise)

[METADATA] Horizons

Developer Tools

[SOLUTION] Please describe your proposed solution

We're completely redesigning the entire Cexplorer.io. It will be a perfect UX/UI experience for absolutely everyone. Responses will be many times faster than before, and we'll provide developers with lots of tools that will make their day-to-day work easier and save them time.

We are already working with developers to deliver the absolute best experience.

Friendly orientation in UTXO model, working with hashes, metadatas, datums, scripts, assets, numbers... All this and much more.

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

We promise to make life easier for all developers!

More satisfied developers means more projects and faster development. And that's the foundation for success.

[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?

We have been long-standing OG members of the Cardano community since ITN.

Some of our members and advisors are Cardano ambassadors.

Josef is the main project manager of Adapools/Cexplorer.

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

   A: Milestone outputs

• Front End dev-tools design and structure.
• Definition of required features and details
• Back End scheme/structure improvement

   B: Acceptance criteria

• Available evidence (Eg. Figma design), description of features

   C: Evidence of milestone completion

• Sharing the delivery of milestone 1 with the community + GitHub frontend design and structure, backend API call scheme.

   A: Milestone outputs

• Implementation of a new dev features, for example
• UTXO visualiser, schema
• Datum Inspector
• Address types
• Script stats
• Metadata reader, 3rd party support

   B: Acceptance criteria

• New functions and features are working on a preview website.

   C: Evidence of milestone completion

• Sharing the delivery of milestone 2 with the community on Twitter via link.

       Features from the milestone outputs are available on the website.

   A: Milestone outputs

• Public API with free starter/developer access

   B: Acceptance criteria

• Working and functioning public API for developers.

   C: Evidence of milestone completion

• Sharing the delivery of milestone 2 with the community on Twitter via link.
• Features from the milestone outputs are available on the website.

A: Milestone outputs

• SDK beta deployment (javascript)

B: Acceptance criteria

• Publishing an SDK to make it easier to work and interact with our API and generally work with addresses, translating, etc.

C: Evidence of milestone completion

• Sharing the delivery of milestone 4 with the community on Twitter via link.
• Github link provided.

A: Milestone outputs

• Finalized and fully working set of dev tools.
• Mainnet, Pre-prod, and Preview instances live publicly including the API server
• SDK v1 is available.
• Final project completion report and video demonstrating the use case in a real environment.

B: Acceptance criteria

• All dev-related features are fully working and tuned
• Documentation and manual related to tooling
• Delivered SDK + documentation
• API server available

C: Evidence of milestone completion

• Sharing final milestone outputs with the community via Twitter.
• GitHub contains the dev SDK library
• API server available

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

Michal Urbanek - CEO

Josef Taborsky - Project visionary and Manager, QA

Jaromir Tesar - Advisor on analytics, Education

Filip Balas - Product Designer, Marketing

Martin Miksanik - DevOps

Dominik Pollak - Developer

Kamil Hamernik - UX, Design

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

Milestone 1 - Designing: 54.000 ADA

       UX, coding (30 hours)

       Analysis (30 hours)

       DevOps (60 hours)

       Development (100 hours)

       Overhead (20 hours)

Milestone 2 - Development part 1: 70.000 ADA

       Development (250 hours)

       DevOps (20 hours)

       Overhead (20 hours)

Milestone 3 - Development part 2: 22.450 ADA

       DevOps (30 hours)

   Development (50 hours)

       Overhead (20 hours)

Milestone 4 - Development part 3: 22.450 ADA

   DevOps (10 hours)

       Development (70 hours)

       Overhead (20 hours)

Final Milestone - Development part 5, SDK, documentation: 31.100 ADA

       Development (80 hours)

   DevOps (40 hours)

       Overhead (20 hours)

       HW costs

   Marketing, Legal, and Accounting costs

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

Given our experience, we will not burn the resources entrusted to us inefficiently and ineffectively. We have a team of people who know what they are doing and we will use every dollar as responsibly as possible. After all, the budget we are asking for is relatively low considering the size of the outcome. A certain proportion of the funds must be accounted for in infrastructure - public API.