Project Name: StarBoard
Project Track: Artistry
Team Name: Crypto Artisans
Team Member(s): 1 and @aarya54
Devpost Project Link: coming soon
Project Goal:
The goal of StarBoard is to revolutionize the way users discover, share, and monetize creative content, including NFTs, through an open and permissionless platform. By addressing the shortcomings of current interest board sites, StarBoard aims to provide a decentralized space where users can explore, collect, and create NFTs while incentivizing content creators and curators through micropayments and social validation. Through prioritizing originality, fairness, and community engagement, StarBoard seeks to empower creators, inspire users, and foster a thriving ecosystem of creativity.
Project Value:
StarBoard aims to provide several key values to its users and the creative community:
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Decentralization and Permissionlessness: StarBoard creates an open and permissionless platform for NFT discovery and interest boards, ensuring users have control over their content and interactions without centralized authority.
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Originality and Fairness: Addressing issues of ad-based revenue models and clickbait, StarBoard prioritizes original content and fair exposure for creators, fostering authenticity and equity in the creative environment.
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Community Engagement and Empowerment: StarBoard fosters a vibrant community where users actively engage with and support creators. Users can create boards of their favorite NFTs, vote for preferred StarPins, and collect NFTs from others, promoting collaboration and empowerment.
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Incentivization and Fair Monetization: StarBoard implements micropayments for pinning content and voting on StarPins, inspired by platforms like Brave and Mirror. This ensures fair compensation for creators and incentivizes users to curate high-quality content. By providing direct rewards to creators, the platform reduces reliance on ad-based incentives and promotes genuine, original content.
Project Info:
StarBoard revolutionizes the way users discover, collect, and create NFTs through its open and permissionless platform. By harnessing the power of blockchain technology, StarBoard empowers creators and users alike, fostering a vibrant community where creativity thrives.
Key Features of StarBoard contains:-
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Board Creation: Users can create boards by uploading images, which are stored on BTFS. NFTs are generated for each pin and attached to a newly created board contract on-chain.
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Micropayments for Pinning: Users can pay a small fee to pin content they like into their own dashboard, encouraging engagement and supporting creators.
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NFT Discovery and Collection: Users can create boards of their favorite NFTs and collect NFTs from other users, enabling promising NFTs to rise to the top and allowing the community to generate income.
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Voting and Discoverability: Users can vote for their favorite pins to enable discoverability, promoting engagement and interaction within the community.
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Pinning and Incentivization: Users can collect pins from other boards by paying a small fee to the pin’s NFT owner, with 75% going to the owner and 25% to the board creator. This incentivizes the creation of high-quality boards and pins
Project Website: coming soon
Project Test Instructions: coming soon
Project Details:
StarBoard creates an open, permissionless platform for NFT discovery and interest boards. Traditional interest board sites rely on ad-based revenue models, where big brands pay for space and pinned content is often unoriginal or sourced from third-party content. Clickbait and unsafe links are prevalent, and original work struggles to gain exposure due to poor market visibility. Additionally, new NFT projects face challenges in gaining exposure without resorting to engagement farming marketing tactics on other social sites.
To address these issues, StarBoard leverages web3 social tooling and blockchain technology to change payment incentives at scale. Inspired by web3 platforms like Brave and Mirror, StarBoard implements micropayments to reward creators for their content. By incentivizing original content creation and fostering a community-driven approach to discovery, StarBoard aims to revolutionize the way users engage with and monetize creative content on social pinning sites.
StarBoard offers an intuitive platform for exploring, collecting, and creating NFTs. Creators can mint NFTs for their images, providing immutable proof of ownership. User-generated boards promote engagement and support creators through small pinning fees. Voting mechanisms help users discover new and trending NFTs, fostering a vibrant community. With a commitment to fairness and transparency, StarBoard aims to create an inclusive ecosystem for NFT creators and enthusiasts worldwide.
Smart Contract links: coming soon
Project Milestones:
Milestone 1: (1st April - 8th April)
Aim: Gain insights into the NFT market landscape and plan project development.
- Conduct thorough market research to understand existing platforms and user preferences.
- Define project objectives, finalize features, create project flow, and select the appropriate tech stack.
- Develop a detailed roadmap and timeline for project execution.
Milestone 2: (9th April - 18th April)
Aim: Develop smart contracts for NFT creation and marketplace functionality, and create wireframes for frontend design.
- Develop smart contracts.
- Create wireframes for all pages including dashboard, board creation, and NFT browsing and other components.
- Begin designing frontend interfaces based on wireframes and finalize design elements.
Milestone 3: (19th April - 4th May)
Aim: Complete frontend development, integrate smart contracts, and deploy them to the blockchain.
- Implement frontend interfaces on all pages including dashboard, board creation, and NFT browsing and other components.
- Integrate smart contracts with the frontend to enable seamless interactions.
- Test smart contracts on a testnet and deploy them to the blockchain.
Milestone 4: (5th May - 7th May)
Aim: Conduct comprehensive testing, optimize performance, and refine user experience.
- Test the platform for functionality, security, and performance on various devices and browsers.
- Identify and fix any bugs or issues discovered during testing.
- Optimize platform performance for speed, scalability, and responsiveness.
Future goal:
In our future goals, we aim to enhance the StarBoard platform to offer even more collaborative and personalized experiences for our users. One of our key objectives is to introduce Collaborative Boards, where multiple creators can come together to contribute and collaborate on a single collection, fostering collaboration and creativity within the community. Additionally, we plan to implement Follow and Favorites functionality, allowing users to follow their favorite artists or collections and receive notifications about new releases or updates, further enhancing their engagement with the platform.
Finally, we plan to add social sharing features, allowing users to easily share their StarBoards and StarPins on other platforms, expanding their reach and promoting their work to a wider audience. Through these future enhancements, we are committed to continually improving the StarBoard experience and empowering our users to discover, collect, and create NFTs in an inclusive and collaborative environment.
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