GameChanger: Spanish and Portuguese

We want to bring professional translation and ensure proper language is used on each section of the Wallet. All components, messages, texts and user interactions will be translated and use proper expressions. The internationalization settings will change based on user browser settings or user preference.

Extended relevant experience:

Cardano users can already benefit from having a highly humanized and gamified wallet, which is 100% committed to removing the entry barriers for students, entrepreneurs, junior developers and newcomers around the world. It's called GameChanger and our vision is to allow our users to focus on what matters rather than investing time and energy in infrastructure, language complexities and having higher level coding skills.

GameChanger current core features:

• Light-client, non-custodial, fully responsive progresive web app (PWA) wallet, ready to be used in any device without installing. We know how hard it can be for users in emerging countries to store applications on their phones and even computers when there's not enough space or resources to use the executables.
• Mainnet and Testnet versions available as well, making it super easy to play and make tests with, specially for developers and students to test without spending real value. Integrated one-click multi-asset airdrop for getting started.
• We're the first deeply gamified wallet in the Cardano ecosystem, where your balance becomes like a game inventory and move your assets (as coloured cards) as if they were tangible objects, allowing you to make from the simplest transaction to even a multi-asset, or multi-output transaction with the same intuitive interface. We're truly unleashing Cardano's potential by allowing anybody, even newcomers to interact with the most advanced features of the ecosystem, breaking with more than a decade of inherited UI trends that we think are obsolete.
• 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 visual representation from day one. Token avatars help 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 review their actions prior to sending.
• Builtin NFT Creator, drag and drop any file type, (not just images) to mint a single NFT or even a professional 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 tuned. 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 successfully coded by non-developers proving that to help developers focus on building, we must simplify our coding languages and tools. Users can start coding these 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 auto generated 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

Extended problem statement:

GameChanger wallet founder team and part of the community is LATAM based and specially in some emerging countries, not having the wallet translated to Spanish or Portuguese can act as a entry barrier for new users. Despite having an advanced rich set of features, some users will not be able to benefit from the whole user experience until everything is properly translated and users can use our product with their native language.

Describe your solution to the problem:

Integrating i18n with the 2 main languages spoken in LATAM -Spanish and Portuguese- and providing full translation for all the user interfaces, components, user facing messages and in fact any visible text to the user.

Use cases and customers:

Translate all the GameChanger wallet interface and components and ensure any user in LATAM emerging countries can onboard and use the wallet with total ease and using their native language.

All this backlog has been constructed after obtaining user feedback on real life use cases. Some examples of real case scenarios would benefit from having translations:

• Our "LATAM GameChangers", our users and supporters such as Juan Sierra, and many more twitter followers.
• ALDEA CNFT drop. 500 unique NFTs minted with GameChanger Wallet.
• ITZA SPO and CryptoJuan, who ran multi-output transactions with Playground (in-wallet IDE) and SmartSend UI for a reward distribution and a giveaway respectively.
• From Chile, Individuo Digital + CHIL SPO Youtube channel covered the wallet in an incredible interview with Adriano, receiving one of the most positive feedback waves the wallet have received in this last months. It caused a substantial LATAM userbase growth that in many cases ended up asking for a Spanish translation

Meet the team:

Adriano Fiorenza is Entrepreneur & Senior Full Stack Developer from Argentina, with 10+ years of experience in IOT and software development. Founder and the main Lead Developer behind GameChanger Wallet, participated in 1st gen Plutus Pioneer Program and is currently contributing as Core Team member at https://gimbalabs.com

His Linkedin profile can be found at https://ar.linkedin.com/in/adriano-fiorenza

Javier Ribó, Technical manager working in the flight industry and for the past years has successfully built and scaled different projects. Also worked for more than 7 years in the Hosting & Cloud industry. Currently going through the "Emurgo Developer course" Batch 52 & contributing to GameChanger Wallet as Senior Developer.

His Linkedin profile can be found at https://www.linkedin.com/in/index

Roberto C. Morano is a systems integrator and DevOps advocate with over 15 years of experience. Ex-Emurgo DevOps Lead. Gimbalabs Co-Founder. Dandelion Founder and Operator. GameChanger advisor.

His Linkedin profile can be found at https://www.linkedin.com/in/rcmorano/

Current Status:

The GameChanger Wallet, is already a product officially released (in english) in an early stage to the public with a big set of unique features unleashing the potential of Cardano and its underlying library: cardano-serialization-lib (Yoroi's library).  It's also important to clarify that unlike other wallets in the ecosystem, GameChanger Wallet offers users the ability to combine several Cardano features at once into single transactions, for sustainable blockchain usage and reduced fees. The wallet builds these complex low level transactions, not the dapps. We take the hard work to allow dapp builders to focus on building faster and easier projects. Sometimes we have been referred to as an easier cardano-wallet-cli web alternative.

Key features/goals:

Ensure that any LATAM user can onboard and use our wallet with full ease and using their native language (Spanish or Portuguese), but we'll for sure extend this internationalization list in a longer term.

Roadmap:

The initial estimation is about 3 months. Depending on other proposals interrelated to this one, deliverables will be finished earlier. 

Unless upcoming use cases lead us to prioritize something differently, we will address the backlog this way: 

1st month: Setting up i18n our product that is expected to be under heavy development for the next months.

2nd month: Work together with translators for a first translation batch, integrate those changes and make couple more iterations to complete all the translation.

3rd month: Wrapping up and testing phase.

Key Performance Indicators for the first 3/6 months (KPIs):

After 3 months a Latam users growth will start to take place organically after this update get published, also increasing the current ongoing social media presence in spanish and starting for the first time to witness portuguese users and social media coverage.

After 6 months we expect to earn Latam users trust and hearts by demonstrating them that this wallet helps them to 

understand the Cardano blockchain without loosing real value (testnet + get-started-airdrop+gamified UI)

reduce fees by combining many Cardano features into single transactions

free them from having to install mobile apps and browser extensions when is hard to do so in developing countries due to lack of proper infrastructure (low end or old smartphones with little storage for apps)

Budget:

 1 Full-Stack developer ($2000 x 1 months = 2000$)

 2 technical translators ($1500 x 1 month = 3000$)

Total: $5000 for a 3 months period.

Related proposals & other projects:

More information in general about all our participation and co-proposals in Catalyst can be found on our website.

https://gamechanger.finance/catalyst

We also want to contribute to the overall Catalyst experience and we have created Project Catapult for all the not-funded proposals and helping on Catalyst Community Tools On-Chain!