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Catalyst lacks comprehensive & proposal-level event notifications, natural language tools for finding relevant proposal groups, and professional platforms to showcase your achievements and successes.
Expand catalystexplorer.com to to transform how you engage with Catalyst through intelligent notifications for events you care about, AI-powered proposal discovery, & professional portfolio building.
This is the total amount allocated to All-in-One Catalyst: Notifications, AI Lists & Portfolios.
Please provide your proposal title
All-in-One Catalyst: Notifications, AI Lists & Portfolios
Enter the amount of funding you are requesting in ADA
250000
Please specify how many months you expect your project to last
10
Please indicate if your proposal has been auto-translated
No
Original Language
en
What is the problem you want to solve?
Catalyst lacks comprehensive & proposal-level event notifications, natural language tools for finding relevant proposal groups, and professional platforms to showcase your achievements and successes.
Does your project have any dependencies on other organizations, technical or otherwise?
No
Describe any dependencies or write 'No dependencies'
No dependencies
Will your project's outputs be fully open source?
Yes
License and Additional Information
The code is already public and open source under Apache-2.0 license. www.catalystexplorer.com and it's REST json api will be available for free to the entire community.
Please choose the most relevant theme and tag related to the outcomes of your proposal
Governance
Describe your established collaborations.
Lido Nation is a near 5 year old company that has cemented its place in the Cardano community for creating tools that help make everyone, regardless of their technical expertise, make sense of governance. Our catalyst explorer tool with its recent transition to full open source is already a public good and core tooling for project catalyst participation.
Describe funding commitments.
If funded we will deploy the Lido Nation team to build on the already extremely successful www.catalystexplorer.com to enable following objects in catalyst (Fund, proposal, user, company) from the real world.
Describe your key performance metrics.
Our performance metrics will largely revolve around the tool uses and open source contributions.
Web analytics: We will track visits to the site and tooling use cases.
Please describe your proposed solution and how it addresses the problem
On average the catalyst explorer tool sees 300 unique visits every 30 days. During the voting period it sees 30k plus views every day. Catalyst Explorer has become synonymous with Project Catalyst itself.
We recently overhauled the entire app and open source the platform as it has become a core service for catalyst rounds, it only made sense for it to be a community owned product.
Moving forward, if owned, we want to add new modules to enable more members of the community to participate. Even those that have to joggle kids, or work, or 7 projects, for the busy catalyst contributor. For these co-horts we want to bring Catalyst to you so you won’t miss a beat. When you do make time to jump in, we want to use AI to help you very quickly find ideas and teams most relevant to your cares and passion.
To accomplish this, we are adding three new modules to the catalyst explorer:
The big idea is to allow the community to be notified when fine-grain events they care about happens. For the first pass we will support these notification channels:
The community will be able to subscribe to any number of these events:
Core Catalyst Events
Community Events - these are events revolving around funded projects
The big idea is to build on our list feature and let you generate an AI list. Put in a prompt, answer some questions like limit, Fund, etc, then it generates a list for you. Share the list, keep it private, do all current lists function. Remove items, add items, etc.
The big idea is to Allow people to create and showcase their catalyst portfolio:
We’ve been hard at work adding support for the Catalyst platform with support already a handful the new Catalyst Signed Document type and Immutable Ledger. Fund 14 proposal user data is already flowing into the catalyst explorer. We’ve also added the ability for the community sign into the explorer with their brand catalyst pass key. We also already have support for the new X509 Role Based Access Control.
This project will integrate with the new Catalyst platform as we make our way towards full catalyst participation support. By fund 15 we aim to have support for at least 1 write operation. We have our eye set on comments to start. This is particularly interesting to us because one way catalyst explorer shines is surfacing related proposals and entities, having a commenting function will allow the community to pose questions within the context of seeing a related entity.
Please define the positive impact your project will have on the wider Cardano Community.
Capability and 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?
Please define the positive impact your project will have on the wider Cardano community
Since its debut the explorer has orders of magnitude increased catalyst accessibility. The tool is still the only place to see:
The new notification system will let the community celebrate and audit funded projects without significant time commitment. This will lead to higher quality catalyst projects, greater collaboration and adoption of products and services funded.
The new AI list feature will vastly reduce the time it takes to find quality projects during the voting round. Too many proposals have often been cited as one reason for low participation. This feature will greatly move the needle on proposal review fatigue.
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?
The same team that brought you the existing Catalyst Explorer tool as well as www.1694.io is the team that will be delivering this project. Needless to say, governance tooling is kinda our jam. We deliver.
Milestone Title
Milestone 1: AI Lists
Milestone Outputs
Milestone Outputs
Acceptance Criteria
Evidence of Completion
Delivery Month
2
Cost
40000
Progress
10 %
Milestone Title
Milestone 2: Catalyst Notifications
Milestone Outputs
Acceptance Criteria
Evidence of Completion
Delivery Month
5
Cost
70000
Progress
50 %
Milestone Title
Milestone 3: Catalyst Portfolios
Milestone Outputs
Acceptance Criteria
Evidence of Completion
Delivery Month
7
Cost
40000
Progress
60 %
Milestone Title
Milestone 4: Native Catalyst Support
Milestone Outputs
Because catalyst voice and the Hermes platform is still being heavily developed we can only commit to prototyping with the stretch goal of going to production.
Acceptance Criteria
Evidence of Completion
There is a chance none of these will make it to UI on catalystexplorer.com. Evidence may be limited to code.
Delivery Month
9
Cost
50000
Progress
80 %
Milestone Title
Final Milestone
Milestone Outputs
The big idea of this milestone will be to open the beers, reflect, handle any gotchas, and socialize the work.
Acceptance Criteria
Evidence of Completion
Delivery Month
10
Cost
50000
Progress
100 %
Please provide a cost breakdown of the proposed work and resources
How does the cost of the project represent value for the Cardano ecosystem?
“Project Catalyst is the world’s largest decentralised innovation engine for solving real-world challenges.” For the engine to work and churn our impactful innovations, lots and lots of ideas have to be put, tried, and tested.
Having a tool to make sense of all this data, raises the usefulness and value of Catalyst in ways we can’t even imagine yet.
One concrete value we can imagine today is a much more informed voter.
Another is heavily decreasing the time commitment of Community participation.
Terms and Conditions:
Yes
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