RE: STEMsocial app development
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My suggestion to make your proposal more appealing to the community is to lay a roadmap covering your business plan to make this a sustainable project. Of course this shall have some milestones, deadlines, etc.
Otherwise, what will be the main source of income when the founding period ends? More funds fron the DAO?
As a chemist I think that the number of use cases for a platform backed by a dedicated scientific community are gigantic... But we need to integrate the interest some companies have for paying for research, lab services, and other related activities, with the potential this decentralized and global community has. Also, you can develop a platform integrated with Hive for coursera-like paid courses, this also might drive outside money I side the Hive platform.
Very good suggestion. I can't at all speak for the current only developer, @lemouth, but I imagine it's difficult to put a reliable roadmap that supporters can completely depend on while the funding is so low (zero).
Speaking for me though, I have many potential avenues for further sources of income once the platform is up and running in a way that we can be proud to share to a more mainstream audience while functioning smoothly, onboarding quickly and so on.
I would consider this 'phase 2'. Until then, we simply have to refine the current platform into something awesome. then we can look into integration, coursera concepts and beyond - this is where my ideas come in, basically.
In the meantime, I'm sure we can come up with some more specific deadlines and so forth. Let's see what lemouth has to say!
Great, then let's advertise those ideas you have. Put those stages (at least the broader concepts of them) in some kind of flowchart. If you make a great presentation of your proposal is easier to catch big players support.
I already supported the proposal, not much but still every tiny bit adds up at the end
Thanks a lot for this suggestion. This is a great one. As said by @mobbs below, I am currently the only developer and I cannot move fast (we have zero funding, etc.). The idea behind the funding request was actually to accelerate that.
We will re-organise the items into a roadmap, both concerning the development of the app (which is why we ask funding for) and about what we aim to do to make the entire project sustainable. However, this may take some time, as I am heavily COVID-busy... I will try to deliver this by the end of the week.
We fully agree with you on the need to make the platform attractive. We will try to include that in the roadmap.
Great! I would love to contribute to the platform with the spare time I can manage to get out of the daily work... For now, I voted with my little HP to support your proposal... As I wrote in my comment to mobbs the way you present your proposal is very important, if you have a solid idea (as I am sure you guys have) all it takes for it to take of is to have some of the spotlight it deserves.
Kind regards.
Little by little, we will get there. This is what we do (with the support we have) for almost four years.
Thanks again for the suggestion. We will update this post most probably on Tuesday (let's rest for the Easter week-end ;) )
For the follow-up, the roadmap has been posted here.