Get incentivised for contributing

[GENERAL] Summarize your solution to the problem.

A platform where developers get incentivized for contributing to open source projects, earn ADA and Skills NFT for every approved pull request, access to exclusive events, hackathons with your NFTs

[GENERAL] Summarize your relevant experience.

We are small group passionate experience Developer, PM, Marketer

Co-founder (Dev): https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxlibin/

Co-founder (Community): https://www.linkedin.com/in/harithbakri/

Co-founder: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ongweiyee/

[IMPACT] Please describe your proposed solution.

PRToken is a platform that allows any developers to find open bounties, participate in the repositories that matter to you, and contribute to solving some of humanity’s most pressing coordination problems.

Every approved and merged Pull Requests will be minted on the blockchain(Cardano) and reward you with Skill NFTs, showcase your NFT on your profile or embed to Github, and get recognized by the industry.

Access to exclusive hackathons, invite-only repositories, or projects, online courses, private discord channels, or special rates for different tools and events by holding NFTs.

Our goal is to provide a community-supported sustainable financial model through web3 technologies (including blockchain, DAOs, etc.), forming a virtuous circle for builders.

After our successful proposal from F5 (https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/350780) we developed our first MVP on prtoken.io

You can find out more about PRToken here:

[IMPACT] Please describe how your proposed solution will address the Challenge that you have submitted it in.

The proposed solution is to foster developers(established or new) to contribute to open-source projects and create more opportunities for open-source developers to earn an additional passive income, gain unique valuable skills and experience when contributing. With the NFTs as a token to access to hackathons, events, and private discord channels, allowing companies to access to developers with guaranteed of specific skills of their request. PRToken is open to every developer regardless of their background and location.

[IMPACT] What are the main risks that could prevent you from delivering the project successfully and please explain how you will mitigate each risk?

Resource and financial support, although we have a passionate team, but we definitely still need developers(Haskell) to work on the smart contract part, although we can slowly bootstrap but it will take longer, we need designers to improve the design, UX, designing NFTs of each skill etc, we need distribute some tokens to partners to train them and guide them to use this platform.

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed plan, including timeline and key milestones for delivering your proposal.

What we have done

You can check our platform on prtoken.io

• We have a working MVP, where user can connect their Github account, sync Issues, pull requests, and activites with our platform.
• You can assign ADA bounties with each issues, assign to someone, add lables and all these information are automatically sync to Github.
• We have added Yoroi wallet integration where you can transact ADA and bundle with NFT through our platform(currently testnet)

What we want to do next

• We want to add smart contract to each issue when an bounty was assigned.
• Improve yoroi wallet integration such as showing skills NFTs earned by the user.
• Partnering 20 companies or projects distributing ADA for them to test out
• We are also working on a campaign call "Do your first contribution and earn NFTs" we will airdrop 100 ADA * 10 users from these pioneer users.

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed budget breakdown.

• We need 1 developer to work on the smart contract part planning for 3 months (3000 * 3)
• We need 1 developer to improve the wallet integration, improving the experience of transactions (3000 *3)
• We need a designer to improve the overall UX and designing skills NFTs (3000 * 3)
• We need a marketer to write articles, promote the project, and sell to companies (3000 *3)
• We want to distribute tokens to repo owners to test the system, 100 ADA * 20 company
• We want to airdrop users at 100 ADA * 10

Total: 39,000 for 3 months

*None of me or my cofounders are paid.

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide details of the people who will work on the project.

We are very small team, but we have a big passion and dream in making this project successful.

Co-founder: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxlibin/

Co-founder: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harithbakri/

Co-founder: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ongweiyee/

[FEASIBILITY] If you are funded, will you return to Catalyst in a later round for further funding? Please explain why / why not.

Yes, we will be back for other collaborations, we need to add more features to the product in next round, catalyst is also a good place to collaborate and get advice which also help us pivot our project.

[FEASIBILITY] Are you or any member of your team working on any other proposals in this Fund9?

[FEASIBILITY] Are you or your team working on any other proposals from previous Funds?

[AUDITABILITY] Please describe what you will measure to track your project's progress, and how will you measure these?

We track the user counts and activities(transactions) happening in our platform as our key metrics.

[AUDITABILITY] What does success for this project look like?

• We are looking at users activities as key metrics, we want to bring in a 1000 new users(developers established or new) within this 3 month if we got the funded.
• We want to make sure that we have at least 20 companies using the system with at least 2 transactions.

[AUDITABILITY] Please provide information on whether this proposal is a continuation of a previously funded project in Catalyst or an entirely new one.

This is continue from F5: https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/350780

and in F8. we did a proposal too and very disappointed where we are voted to fund but due to lack of treasury(short of 2k) and catalyst decided not to fund us https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/396597

hopefully, we get the fund this time 🙏