Crypto Blockchain Talents Platform

[GENERAL] Summarize your solution to the problem.

A platform that will connect professionals with high technical skills in blockchain, DeFi, Crypto, Web3, Smart Contracts, NFTs, Metaverse and programming, with companies that seek these professionals

[GENERAL] Summarize your relevant experience.

The team will feature a journalist, blockchain and cryptocurrency content editor, videomarker and presenter. Conceived and produced by the CardanoFeed team, the largest media specialized in Cardano coverage. We already have over 800+ projects registered in the Cardano Ecosystem.

[IMPACT] Please describe your proposed solution.

We will develop a segmented and specialized platform to connect companies and projects with highly qualified professionals with skills and competences in blockchain, DeFi, Crypto, Web3, Smart Contracts, NFTs, Metaverse and many programming languages used in blockchain.

A powerful environment to find professionals with multiple search options and filters such as:

• Location
• Skills
• Competencies
• Industry/sector
• Language
• Job types
• Job title
• Educational institution
• Courses
• Companies
• and more.

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

We believe that a niche environment specialized in Web3 talent will bring a lot of engagement with these users and will attract companies interested in finding, hiring and relating to these people.

We observed that niche environments form large tribes that connect with the target audience and thus attract greater engagement in the use of the platform, bringing real gains and a lot of value to the entire market.

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

In our previous survey, we have 2 main challenges in the platform:

Challenge One: Bring blockchain professionals to list their professional information, skills and knowledge on a new platform.

What we will do: We will contact the professionals who are the target audience of the platform, through LinkedIn and we will show that we are a segmented platform specialized in professionals with the same performance as him, making a tribe/community. We will also provide the possibility of exporting and importing between platforms, in this way we will not give the user work and effort.

Second Challenge: Bring companies and projects interested in discovering, relating or hiring professionals who have the skills and competences to meet their needs.

What we will do: We will list the vacancies available in the companies for these positions and we will also seek to meet specific hunting parties within our database according to the personalized needs for each company.

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

Month 1:

• Start of platform architecture planning
• Gathering requirements and features
• Creation of the website wireframe
• Validation with key users
• Adjustments and adaptations in wireframe
• Wireframe finalization

Month 2-3:

• UX/UI studies for the website
• Creation of the first version of the interface with some screens
• Validation of requirements and features
• Adjustments in the first version of the interface
• Design and UX validation with key users
• Design tweaks
• Creation of all other screens and interfaces

Month 4:

• Attracting the first professionals profile
• Attracting the first companies
• Validation of requirements and features
• Platform validation with early users and companies
• Start of front-end programming

Month 5:

• Validation of front-end programming with users
• Start of front-end and back-end integration
• Inclusion of professional profiles in the application database
• Login and password release for users to verify the panel
• Completion of front-end and back-end integration
• MVP release as a beta version for early adopters
• Validation of feedback and platform improvements

Month 6:

• Official launch of the platform
• Communication with media partners, ecommerce content portals, crypto specialist sites.

Manage workload:

We currently have a team of 7 additional collaborators working together with our core project team. We already have other projects approved on Catalyst, so we were able to distribute and organize tasks and sprints within our development roadmap. And we also have a bank of technical professionals waiting to be hired according to the increase in projects.

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed budget breakdown.

Detailed budget breakdown:

Developer Front-end: 2,800 x 5 months = $14,000

Developer Back-end: 2,800 x 6 months = $16,800

Product Owner = $900 x 6 months = $5,400

Marketing Assistant = $600 x 4 months = $2,400

Social Media = $800 x 5 months = $4,000

Designer UX/UI =$900 x 5 months = $4,500

Marketing Budget = $800

Amazon AWS Services Maintenance (1 year) = $1,600

TOTAL: $49,500

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

Otávio Lima - https://www.linkedin.com/in/otavioaclima/

Founder & CEO at Cardano Feed

Entrepreneur and passionate about technology, I started working at age 16 when I set up my first technology company and I never stopped. I founded some internet startups, some successful and others not so much. Started my business for 6 months in Silicon Valley/Silicon Valley, California (USA) , in Rio de Janeiro and Belem.

I have practical and theoretical knowledge in B2B and B2C e-commerce, marketplace, digital marketing, UX/user experience, navigation tests, interface, information architecture, big data, data driven, data science, web metrics , BI (Business Intelligence), open innovation, crowdsourcing, ERP integrations, digital signage/digital signage and out-of-home digital media.

I actively participate in the cryptocurrency/blockchain, DeFi, cryptocurrency, enthusiast and fan of digital currencies such as Bitcoin (BTC), Cardano (ADA), ZCore (ZCR), B2U coin (B2U) and Binance coin (BNB).

Felipe Barcelos - https://www.linkedin.com/in/felipebarcelospro/

Full stack and software engineer

I started studying computers at the age of 9. Always looking for ways to solve problems and generate value. All of this took me on the journey of entrepreneurship and made me open my startup at the age of 18.

In recent years, my dedication has been to improve my technical expertise with Clean Code, refactoring, TDD, DDD, design patterns, clean architecture and languages like Javascript. Using frameworks like Next JS, Angular JS, Nest JS, Strapi and a few more.

Lucas Fernandes - https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucas-fernandes-silva/

Marketing Assistant

Founder of an Education startup in 2021 in São Paulo from an insight that our current teaching model is not aligned with the needs that the job market needs. Since then, my main purpose has become to create, share and connect experiences and knowledge with people around the world, offering new opportunities to develop the skills they will need for the professions of the future, today.

Today, my biggest motivation comes from showing that any dream is possible and that there are no limits for those who really dream big, have their feet on the ground and take one step at a time. We are certainly only at the beginning of a great journey.

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

No, we believe that the platform will become self-sufficient with the adoption of projects and users with monthly fees to be charged to users for using the application.

[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 will give the community some sort of progress report as we go along, in the form of a monthly news release on Cardano Feed, to measure the progress of our proposal.
• We will also provide a panel to be disseminated within Cardano Feed, with the evolution of the project according to the Catalyst KPIs
• Number of hits to the website: 50,000
• Number of registered users: 5,000
• Number of profiles available: 3,000
• Number of partners companies: 50

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

Success for this project can be defined:

• Number of talents founded
• Number of profiles contacted
• Number of registered skills and competences
• Validation of feedback and platform improvements

[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 project.