Please describe your proposed solution.

We intend to create a job portal that would allow people in the CNFT community to find the talent their team is missing.

Creator Facing Job Postings

The ability to create job postings through a new portal on JPG Store. Anyone in the CNFT community would able to apply directly through the portal without doing KYC. We would have filters to make finding interesting jobs easy, and screening applicants straight forward.

User Facing Job Applications

Using JPG profiles users would be able to define if they are looking to get hired and define their area of expertise.

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

Our tool would allow the growth of the community and help speed up development of new projects. The job platform would also allow individuals who currently trade CNFTs to transition into full time contributors to the Cardano ecosystem.

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

The biggest challenge for the project is creating a job portal free of email dependencies while providing legitimacy and security through Twitter and Discord verifications.

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

The project would be executed over a time period of 4 weeks. This time period is divided into further sections as follows:

1. Wireframing and Structure Development - 0.5 Weeks
2. Core Functionality Development - 1.5 Weeks
3. Design Implementation - 1 Weeks
4. Testing & QA - 1 Weeks

Please provide a detailed budget breakdown.

Our budgets are divided over two major categories, employee costs and overheads for the duration of execution. Our costs for both are as follows:

Employee Costs: $5200 USD/week

Overheads: $1300 USD/week

Overheads include hosting, unexpected delays, marketing costs, tutorial development and more.

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

To execute the proposal we will be using 2 core resources dedicatedly while other employees of JPG will assist wherever need be. The main 2 resources would be 1 Full Stack Engineer and 1 UX/UI Designer.

The exact team members working on the project are decided as we go through the 4 stages but you can learn more about all our team members and their expertise at https://www.jpg.store/team

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

The submission is a one time funding request to execute the proposal. We do not foresee us returning to Catalyst for further funding in regards to this proposal.

Please describe what you will measure to track your project's progress, and how will you measure these?

We build our tools and features in a modular manner while testing each part as it is built and retesting as it starts to communicate with other modules. We will be tracking these milestones internally and inviting our beta testers to provide feedback on usability and functionality as soon as our project reaches a state of readiness.

We are also driven to run the project in a user-centered manner, listening to our users and various stakeholders throughout the process to ensure the end product is what the community at large desires.

What does success for this project look like?

We are aiming on looking at three main metrics for evaluating the success of the project:

1. Creation of jobs by creators wishing to create on Cardano.
2. Volume of applications for jobs on the platform.
3. A minimum success matching ratio of 30% increasing over time.

Please provide information on whether this proposal is a continuation of a previously funded project in Catalyst or an entirely new one.

This is an entirely new proposal.