On Chain NFT Notifications

[GENERAL] Summarize your solution to the problem.

Build out a web app for receiving updates on projects and native apps for iPhone and Android to receive notifications from projects.

[GENERAL] Summarize your relevant experience.

The team has 19+ years combined in software development, coding, web design, and IT services.

[IMPACT] Please describe your proposed solution.

Anybody who has bought an NFT knows that there are many issues with verifying when a message is actually coming from a team member or not.

One example of failed verification would be the constant DMs of individuals claiming to be part of a project asking for a transaction to be sent to their wallet or making outright claims about the project to spread FUD.

We believe a solution to this is to build a web app and native apps for iPhone and Android that give the user 100% confidence in who messages are coming from. Our proposal would lean into leveraging standards that already exist on chain to build an app to easily verify that a real team member sent the notification.

We hope that building out tools to help validate the source of a message will help to mitigate rug pulls and future scams in a way that helps the Cardano ecosystem as a whole.

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

We would be creating a system to increase transparency within the NFT ecosystem and minimizing risks to users who participate in it. This will lead to increased trust of users in the NFT space.

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

The main challenges would be funding and creating the web and phone apps. We have a couple of individuals who are ready to build the dApp, but funding is needed to keep these individuals employed with Provenance Systems. This is why we are seeking Project Catalyst funding. Ensuring that the web and phone apps are created in a timely manner will require that the individuals involved in the project are able to devote their time to it.

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

The full timeline for delivery on this web app is 12 weeks or 6 full sprints for a dedicated front-end engineer. With the backend tools we have been building over the past year, there is minimal work needed here.

Phase 1: Build Web App

• (Sprint 1): Frontend UI/UX design finalized.
• (Sprint 2 & 3): Begin frontend development.
• (Sprint 4 & 5): Dev load testing of web app.
• (Sprint 6): Launch early access Alpha of the web app.

Phase 2: Build Phone App

Phase 3: Deploy Smart Contracts

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed budget breakdown.

Front end developer: 3 months, fulltime = $35000

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

Justin Pfeifer - CEO/ Founder

Well before all the talk of metaverses on the blockchain, he dove head first into programming by building a fully fledged rewards system in Secondlife, realizing he could use his newfound skill to drive community engagement in the game. He currently maintains a legacy contract for efficiency tools with C.H. Robinson. He is proficient in many programming languages including: SQL, Python, and Java Script. He was in the second cohort of the Plutus Pioneer program and the first cohort of the Atala Prism Pioneer program.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-pfeifer/

Twitter: @JustinPfei

Discord: Corlian #8404

Jeren Sisk - Developer / Co-founder

After jumping headfirst into software starting with a technical trade program in 2013, Jeren has since accrued 9+ years of experience as a full stack developer in a broad range of business domains, including railway, e-commerce, and law. His experience ranges from new development, to system maintenance, to total refactors of existing systems. Recently, he's been focused on a large scale refactor and decoupling of a monolithic system into a domain driven, microservice architecture. When he's not working on enterprise systems, he's probably doing game development.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jerensisk/

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

We will most likely have to apply for further funding in order to complete all of the anticipated phases of the 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?

Project Management:

Timeline for completing the web app and phone apps

Platform Tracking:

·        daily number of users

·        number of projects

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

We will be setting up a dedicated domain to all of our proposals. We will give as close to real time updates as possible. We should have the domain up in the next week at which point we encourage people to visit and audit our progress. - https://catalyst.provenance.systems

We believe that users shouldn’t have to know the technical to know a notification came from a project.

Our measure of success starts with delivering a user-friendly experience that does just that.

Additional metrics to look at will be how many test users have we engaged? Our hope is to draw in engagement during the process to help address any concerns. 

[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 a new proposal on Project Catalyst.