Crowd Founding Safe Apps - Next Steps

Community driven and community owned through crypto-token proof of ownership. Three was of earning your share in a project. 1. Planting the seed; (Investors); 2. Bring life to the project (Developers); 3. Harvesting the crops (content contributed/end-user).

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I’m more than happy to have the entire project under the crowdsafe.io banner (though I do like the term Crowd Founded, Founders, Founding) as long as we are clear that all the different projects don’t have to follow the same processes of token usages and if we are all working on the same script for what we as the community decide is the most important next steps. That doesn’t mean we can’t be working on different aspects of the objective at the same time for that particular month or quarter or however long we decide the iterations are. Though I think we would do better if we did things in a more serial way as to not dilute our efforts more than is needed. I also want to have weekly reviews that are a public processes.

Again, I’ll do a write-up on the MVP Definition OKR for April and publish the draft tomorrow or Tuesday, and we can talk through it and change it to match what we all agree on.

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I think we can make a place for that. Shouldn’t be that hard. It can definitely done in “other projects” but we can also think of a new category for it.

That’s a great offer but are you sure ;-). On a serious note, it would keep all the projects and ideas on the forum. Next to that projects can create their own Reddit etc. And if the App becomes so big of it’s own a separate forum can be created by the makers/owners of the App. We’ve seen that happening before.

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This could be an amazing idea to push the community and apps. In safe_examples we are considering an awesome site (like the many awesome github repo’s out there ( GitHub - sindresorhus/awesome: 😎 Awesome lists about all kinds of interesting topics ) and get folks to do pull requests there. It was suggested by @cretz (I think, sorry if mistaken) and I mentioned that to Viv. I suspect this will happena nd safe_examples will morph into an awesome list.

I just mention this as it may help during your write up.

Again great and I am sure there is something we can all do to help, personally and otherwise. I am on it :wink:

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What I’m planning to do is post the draft of the MVP (after the OKR draft) as a wiki post and we can discuss below and change it accordingly. Sound good? It has history just in case we need to look back. I’ll do the same for the OKR too.

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Thanks for your support sir!

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Things I’d like to see in the MVP of a app crowdfunding app.

  • Ability to search and sort apps by multiple criteria. That is by name, date, creator, purpose, description, hashtags etc.
  • Simple, asthetically pleasing and efficient UI. I don’t want to have to hunt for 30 minutes to find the settings tab or how to change my profile picture or safecoin address.
  • Cross referenced apps. So cross reference apps by purpose, creator, time, etc. This could hook into the search feature as well but could also be important when funding. Say I want to fund all apps that are associated with helping single parents. I want to be able to quickly cross reference that purpose and then send safecoin to all those apps at once. Or say I want to fund all new startup apps. I cross reference apps that are making less than x and are younger than y time period and send them z amount of safecoin. A script could even be set up to do this automatically.
  • Add scripting support for automatic donations. Also add contracting support so that app developers can reward donators for backing their projects.
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Loved the video Tonda posted about design

Good one to watch while pondering how it might work and what it might look like.

It needs to look very simple and intuitive on the surface imo. Even if there’s a lot of functionality underneath.

People gravitate towards things that are easy to understand and simple to use. Complexity scares people off.

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What if searching and funding apps was like pintrest? On pintrest your search terms BECOME your categories. So if you search for “red shoes” it’ll pop up red + shoes and you can search by red things or shoe things. And the more people post shoes and red things the larger the categories grow. Likewise what if you searched for apps the same way and when you found an app that wasn’t described the way you liked you could tag it with a new search term. So say you found an app that sold clothes and happened to sell shoes but was only tagged as selling “fashion + clothing” you could tag it with “shoes” as well. Or say an app that specialized in something that you thought should be forked you could tag it with “fork this + <~desired OS~> + <~desired specs~>”.

The other day I was sitting with my friend and we were doing a bit of career coaching one on one. He drew a diagram from a book he was reading. The illustration shows three intersecting circles with [Needs, Skills, and Passion]. Where all three of those things intersect is the sweet spot. I was looking for the image on the web and found out the Japanese have a similar concept and illustration. The sweet spot they call Ikigai or “a reason for being”

Finding that reason for being and being able to labor within it is what I mean by “Empowering the World to Labor in Freedom”. Are we doing what we love? What are we good at? What aspect of that love does the world need (The Market)? What can we be paid for? If we can be in that place where they all intersect we can labor in true freedom. That is what I want to see us build.

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The diagram leaves out a circle: A place to stand.

You could have all of those things in the diagram, but if you have no home then you’re unfulfilled.

I think I would just include that in what I love. “Home is where the heart is” kind of thing. My family is part of my loves. With the sweet spot I can be the provider my growing family needs and still be present…

They are part of both my passion and my mission.

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I’d say “that which you can be paid for” includes paying for the necessities in your life, including a home.

Thanks for posting this diagram, @chadrickm, it portrays how I feel everyone should live in the best way I’ve seen so far, by living the “Ikigai”.

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@chadrickm, @eblanshey What you’re saying is not really what I was intending to convey.

I was speaking of territory, homeland, a patch of ground that has ancestral association. This seems primordial to humans.