GameChanger: The onboarding wallet

Cardano already has a highly humanized and gamified wallet commited 100% to lower the entry barrier for students, entrepreneurs, junior developers and people in general around the world. It's called GameChanger and it's primary goal is to allow people focus on what really matters rather than loose attention on infrastructure, language complexities and high level coding skills requirements.

GameChanger current key features:

• Light-client, non-custodial, fully responsive progresive web app (PWA) wallet, ready to be used in any device without installing. Coming from an emerging country, we know that is hard to make users install applications on their phones and even computers when they sometimes won't have storage left or an adecuate and clean environment to install executables.
• Mainnet, and Testnet wallet as well to allow developers and students to test without spending real value.
• First deeply gamified wallet in the Cardano Ecosystem, where your balance is like a game inventory, and you move assets (coloured cards) as they were tangible objects, allowing you to make the simplest transaction to even multi-asset, multi-output transactions with the same intuitive interface. We are truly unleashing Cardano's potential by allowing even newcomers to send the most advanced transactions with the easiest UI in the ecosystem and breaking more than a decade of inherited UI trends that are inadecuate in front of Cardano capabilities
• No more manually settings for fees and minimum ADA values, the wallet calculates all this for you. Sending a single token has never been easier, just pick the asset you want to send and the wallet adjusts the rest.
• Native NFT and tokens support with visual representation from day one. Token avatars helps you identify same minting policies to quickly discover fake tokens and visually respect NFTs collection similarities. Token registry verification check.
• Strict audit stage for any transaction sending request, letting the user to review their actions prior sending.
• Builtin NFT Creator, drag and drop any file type, (not just images) to mint a single NFT or even a profesional collection in an automated way. Make NFT drops with the same gamified UI with final review stage.
• URL-based dApp connector, allowing social networks, blogging sites, landing pages and even emails and e-messaging to carry payment links, donation buttons, metadata, tokens and NFT minting links on Cardano Blockchain. We plan to cover smart contracts and other features soon so please stay tunned.
  Here is a simple "minter tweet" to try this out:
  https://twitter.com/GameChangerOk/status/1433861451618426880?s=20
• Builtin Playground (IDE): dApp connector editor and HTML and URL generator. GameChanger Script editor, a JSON-based dApp connector scheme that already has been succesfully coded by non-developers proving that to help developers focus on building, we must simplify our coding languages and tools. Users can start coding this scripts by editing all the demos already integrated in the editor. Implement payments, NFT drops and complex transactions in a couple of minutes ending up with a ready to use autogenerated HTML dynamic dApp integration or a static copy-and-paste URL.
• (e)UTXO model visually exposed, ideally for devs and students to audit and learn how Cardano works. This plus Playground materializes our commitment to students and junior developers.
• Code based on Emurgo's cardano-serialization-lib, the core of Yoroi Wallet.
• Private key isolation inside Web Workers, read-only mode, and more.
• Open source, community driven API backend, using IOHK's cardano-graphql and relying on Dandelion APIs, whom infrastructure efforts has allowed us to put our wallet online because we can't afford our own infrastructure yet as we have been supporting this development with our own savings and the required cloud hosting is very expensive in our country. Because we lack fair infrastructure capabilities and we are a very small team we are working closed source for now looking to reach sustainability first.

Why GameChanger:

I believe that Cardano is the real game changer here otherwise I would't choose it to build with, but I must confess I didn't planned to build this wallet at the beginning. I faced a month of language communication issues, lack of documentation, delayed answers, expensive to deploy infrastructure and bugs while trying to build on Cardano. And it's ok, because it's a rising ecosystem and it's totally understandable, I knew soon this would change for good. But I thought it was a shame, so much potential in front of us and I couldn't reach it at the moment. I learned from this and I developed GameChanger to help others focus on materializing their projects on Cardano much much faster and with a smoother experience.

Proposal:

Help us to prepare ourselves to onboard new users at scale and improve GameChanger Wallet to fully adapt to it's upcoming third party application ecosystem while contributing back to Dandelion APIs to let them help others developers as well with the API's, some of them being developers building dApps with this wallet: A very productive feedback loop.

Proposed plan (5 months of work):

• Support other feedback loops that are in the talks with communities such as Gimbalabs, and individuals, by offering support and adding new frequently requested features.
• Add smart contracts capabilities
• Improve overall wallet, bug fixing, refactoring.
• Add more demos to Playground
• Docs, tutorials.
• Add a Dapp Discovery Hub or Marketplace to make all existing dApps available within the wallet
• Prepare the code for internationalization
• Talks, debates, and educative events side by side with community partnerships such as the one taking place next Tuesday 24/8 on Gimbalabs Discord
• Grow user base by reaching potencial users/startups and try to cover their needs
• Cover for 1 year our own infrastructure costs while also contributing to Dandelion APIs to potenciate a feedback loop and with a stronger infrastructure help them and us onboard more developers with the open source APIs.

Budget breakdown:

• Lead, Fullstack Dev + support for dApp teams [400hs x $40] $16000
• Sys. Admin. (ext. collaboration and inside role) [200hs x $30] $6000
• Landing Website Front End (demos, tutorials,docs, maintenance) [200hs x $30] $6000
• Marketing efforts ( Explainer videos, campaigns, talks, events ) $3000
• Graphic design $2000
• Self Dandelion Infraestructure (mainnet + testnet) [12 months x $600 ] $7200
• Shared Infraestructure collab. to Dandelion and backup (mainnet + testnet)  [12 months x $600 ] $7200

Auditability and metrics:

• Metadata: we can use metadata to have some usage metrics but always while preserving our users privacy.
  How this can be gathered? by executing a query like this one already showing real GameChanger dApp transactions in testnet: https://postgrest-api.testnet.dandelion.link/tx_metadata?key=eq.73&json-%3E%3Etype=eq.tx
• Dapp Discovery Hub: number of dApps implementing GameChanger
• Social networks for interaction with users and their feedback
• Weekly reports

How success looks like since funding event?

1. Day zero BC (Before Catalyst): Wallet is already online, some other features and improvements will be taking place prior to the funding as they have been requested for dApp teams that needs them and are common use cases.
2. After 3 months: Proposed development will have already started, self and shared infraestructure setup will be online and orchestration with Dandelion network will begin (IAN network). Talks and new feature support with third party dApp teams will be taking place. DApps will be integrated already using what's available for them, helping the Cardano dev ecosystem to grow, easing the learning/developing curve on tasks like payments,NFTs drops, token issuing, metadata, payments on marketplaces, passwordless logins powered by Cardano, etc.   
3. After 6 months AC (After Catalyst): Proposed development will be finished, some new features implemented to allow better dApp integrations, all backend infrastructure will be online, many dApps will be using GameChanger already, growing Cardano ecosystem even more. Smart contracts will be added to the feature list, allowing a wave of new dApp teams to join the ecosystem.
4. After 12 months: dApp discovery hub will be populated with real use-cases on Cardano, a user-base will be formed and the ecosystem will have months of grow, moving ahead to new ideas and challenges to make it bigger.

Other proposals that would need this one for scaling, quality and new feature set:

• https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/GameChanger-IPS-Program/370237-48088
• https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Easy-Use-and-Wallet-Implementation/369529-48088

Thanks for your time.