Summary
This proposal is for a grant of 241,704 ECO ($4880) (rate: $0.02019 26th Jan 2023) to fund the development of a general purpose Eco ID Dapp playground, referred in this document as the minimum valuable product ( MVP )
Mission
At the time of writing, Aside from the Eco id Claim DApp (which only covers one specific use case of Eco ID: identity verification of Discord and Twitter accounts ), there is no other way to interact with the Eco Id protocol than the smart contract itself. There is a need for better accessibility.
Providing better accessibility to the Eco ID protocol is key to fulfilling its growth and vision: provide a fully decentralized and permissionless identity and reputation system that is simple, but maximally flexible.
Goals
Accessibility has two distinct meaning in a product context :
-
the quality of being easily understood
-
the quality of being easy to use.
Trying to optimize over one of those qualities might go in contradictions with the other :
-
improving the quality of being easy to use by abstracting the complexity might result in lowering the quality of being easy to understood the inner system for its end users.
-
improving the quality of being easily understood by breaking down the information flow might result in lowering the quality of being easy to use.
Each of this qualities are essential to fulfill, but easy to prioritize due to the context this proposal lives in :
As the Eco Id protocols has been publicly released only a few weeks ago, there is only a few community members which fully understand how it work and what it has to offer. The priority is therefore to invest in education tools and material to increase the numbers of Eco ID advocates within the community.
The Eco ID playground ( MVP ) aim to be an education tool ( Dapp ), improving the accessibility of the Eco ID protocol by focusing over the quality of being easily understood.
The Eco ID Dapp (V1) aim to be improve the accessibility of the Eco ID protocol by focusing over the quality of being easy to use.
If the V1 will be developed from the MVP, the two versions will continue to be live and be developed independently as compare to what we can encounter in a traditional product life cycle.
The playground (MVP ) will be hosted on IPFS and not rely on centralized components, and therefore will stay and remain a fall back solution if the Eco id Dapp was to cease to function properly at any point of time.
Roadmap
The development of the MVP started on the 2d of January 2023, is expected to be delivered on the 1st of February 2023, and being improved upon for 30 days thanks to community feedback which will be conducted over the Eco Community tools - Beta test discord server
| product version | stage | start date | end date |
|---|---|---|---|
| MVP | planning | 2023-01-02 | 2023-01-13 |
| MVP | development | 2023-01-16 | 2023-01-31 |
| MVP | release | 2023-02-01 | |
| MVP | feedback, bug correction, improvments | 2023-02-01 | 2023-02-28 |
| V1 | planning | 2023-01-02 | 2023-02-10 |
| V1 | development | 2023-02-10 | 2023-03-01 |
Team
The current team in charge of the MVP is composed of two developers :
| Name | Discord | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Pauline | LinaHello#3433 | Junior developer |
| Jeremie | Jeremie#7539 | Senior developer |
Here’s a list of potential additional contributors for the V1 scope
| Name | Discord | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Saulo | Saulo#9999 | Senior Designer |
| AndyRv | andyrv#1408 | Designer |
| Fact Parade | facts parade#4191 | Content writer |
| Omiage | OMiage#4996 | Senior Business analyst |
Funds usage breakdown
Here is the breakdown of the worked hours (accounting for project analyses and development, excluding the prior research stage ) corresponding to the MVP.
| Name | Worked day | Worked hours | Hours rate | $ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jeremie | 8 | 64 | 50 | 3200 |
| Lina | 7 | 56 | 30 | 1680 |
| TOTAL | 4880 |
MVP Features
This Dapp will cover the most basic needs to interact with the Eco ID protocol and decompose the steps of an Eco ID creation :
-
Filling Attestation details
-
Signature
-
Attestation download
-
Attestation registration and mint
as described in the 4 users flow in the following interactive mockup link:
This Dapp will also require its user to manually share the attestation with each other
This Dapp will interact with the Ethereum mainnet and goerli testnet to allow its user to experiment with the protocol without having to spend real ETH for gas fee.
The logic, build on stately.ai, allow its user to explore an interactive statechart while using the Dapp. This offers real support to share business logic between product and tech collaborators, facilitate collaborations and provide a reusable piece of code for any other project which would like to build on Eco ID.
Further development
The features/ tasks to be included in the following proposal are not defined yet ( as not part of this proposal ), and presented here as ideas open to discussions.
| Version target | Category | Value prop description |
|---|---|---|
| 1.0 | Product | Store and retrieve Pending signatures via a centralized backend |
| 1.0 | Product | Eco ID - User profile |
| 1.0 | Product | Decentralized notifications via Push protocol |
| 2.0 | Product | Eco ID - directory MVP |
| 2.0 | Product | Dapp UI/UX |
| 2.0 | Product | Decentralized wallet to wallet chat via Push protocol |
| NA | Marketing | Pitch Deck: Why you should build your business on top of Eco ID ? |
| NA | Marketing | Article around Eco ID |
| NA | Education material | EIP-712 showcase video on eth.build |
| NA | Education material | video : revocable attestation showcase with Eco ID |
Here’s a first estimate (TBD) of what the following proposal could include
| Name | Role | Hours rate | Expected Worked hours | $ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jeremie | Project lead / senior developper | 50 | 160 | TBE |
| Lina | Junior developer | 30 | 160 | TBE |
| ? | Senior Designer | 50 | 40 | TBE |
| ? | Senior Business analyst | 50 | 40 | TBE |
| ? | App Copy writer | 30 | 10 | TBE |
| ? | Article Content writer | 30 | 20 | TBE |
| TOTAL | TBE |
Specifications
As living documents, the two product specifications are not part of this proposal, but can be found on notion through the following link :
https://coconut-harrier-5b4.notion.site/Eco-ID-Dapp-902a583520584a278cd0755ff36244a1
