Currently there are over 70 million Youtube videos on DIY projects, but no proper way to incentivize the Makers whom explain how something is made.
Youblob is an online makerspace for collaboration and blueprint sharing around all these ideas and creating an eco-system for idea sharing back to the industry in order to create new opportunities on new levels of interaction and data sharing.
We introduce several new incentive models to DIY projects and their makers, along with how e-commerce should be handled in the future when running alongside Cardano implementations.
Take ownership of your idea in the open source space, allow others to create iterations from them, show the industry who you are and what awesome things you can build with their products!
We are enabling open collaboration across all subjects and new combinations in our Blueprints, combine Electronics with Woodworking and some math f.ex, all while maintaining the high level of documentation around iterations and how something is made, along with creating incentive models on top of this to put the idea maker in the front seat of the whole solution. We even go so far that you can be incentivized by AI on what it produces in the future.
Our motto: Rapid prototyping made easy …even for AI
So what have we done so far… almost 10 years of iterations
2012 - Implementation of Drupal, investigating e-commerce (first time we did this)
2013 - Distribution agreement with Sparkfun, investigating distribution chains and order handling
2014 - Investigating sales and stock handling
2015 - Investigating manufacturing chain and BIM vs BOM
2016 - Implementation of blueprints and investigation around rapid prototyping, + migration from Drupal to Magento
2017 - Process analysis between manufacturer - distributor - sale - and Maker (missing link)
2018 - Includes analysis around physical makerspaces and other organizations and their pain points
2019 - We ran out of money and had to put everything on ice. During this period I started investigating what could define the next industrial revolution and in 2020 I have a 4 step plan to enable Industry 5.0, where Blueprints is the first step to enable this.
2020 - Still no money, but I started working as Test lead for a wind turbine simulation company.
2021 - Got money, hired a Designer to rework the old MVP/POC and continued development of the Magento platform.
2022 - Continuous development, and in March we finally had a hire for a Plutus dev :D
Discord;
Feel free to join our discord channel: <https://discord.gg/2Dz6E8ng8t>
Currently ongoing;
Development on our Magento 2 platform with alignment to rapid prototyping
Implementation of smart contracts and light wallet
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- Registering account; Light Wallet automatically generated for User
- Creating extra profiles for organizations and companies; Light Wallet automatically generated for Organizations and Companies
- Creating teams for collaboration on blueprints; Owner of Blueprint can set % revenue to other team members
- Ledger access; User is able to see all sales, purchases, revenue and incentive streams through personal account for ledger UI
- Product Incentives; Once a sale is done through a Blueprint and received with reseller, THEN IF there is added a Revenue % on product, then this shall split the payment and send Revenue % to Blueprint owner [Maker], and the rest to reseller. IF Blueprint is created by a Team, then the total Revenue % shall be split between the set Team % allocation.
- Add Blueprint as NFT; If a User converts their Blueprint over to NFT, then this shall lock the Blueprint and no other edits can be done on the Blueprint, and it shall enable a purchase option of the Blueprint.
- Salesprice on Blueprint NFT; User must be able to set their own price on Blueprint NFT. Later we will add an algorithm to present the user with current expected value of NFT, based on sales through blueprint, visits, linked blueprint iterations etc.
- Blueprint NFT sold; When a Blueprint NFT is sold, it shall transfer all ownership of the Blueprint to the new owner. Sales and other revenue streams generated after it is sold shall be given to the new owner. If Blueprint had a Team of collaborators, and the Blueprint is sold as NFT, the sale price shall be split between the set Team % allocation.
- Revenue stream from the Youblob AI; Based on the algorithm that the AI engine uses and which Blueprints it has based its final solution on that leads to a sale, shall generate a revenue stream back to the Blueprint owners. Youblob will charge a 5% of the sale, to further enhance and develop the AI engine.
- Transactions on the Youblob platform; As Youblob is free to use, we need to have some sort of income to further enhance the services provided and further development of the platform. To keep it simple we charge a 5% for transactions done on the Youblob platform. This includes sales of products, services, event tickets and NFT sales.
- Organization - Subscriptions; If User creates an organization/makerspace etc on Youblob, They shall be able to handle subscription fees to their organization through Youblob.
- Referral payments; As a User I can earn Tinker Tokens by using my referral link and inviting other people to Youblob.
- Tax handling; We need to investigate on how to set this up properly through a smart contract to handle tax % set for different countries and include it to the ledger system for easy tax reporting.
We want to simplify the way to run a business legally and help users without the technological know-how.
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Please note that these are the first smart contracts that we will add.
We have several other features being worked that will help the Makers out there which will be handled through the Youblob platform, incl. separate unique solutions for both the industries and organizations.
3-6 months: Implementation of the new design, along with initial smart contract functionality and light wallet.
6-9 months: Extended smart contract functionality which Adaptive payments from external vendor currently can not handle, along with NFT handling on Blueprints.
Risks;
- Marketplace not used by distributors.
- Makers stick with Video explanation only and are content with just commercial income.
Our value proposition we provide around rapid prototyping solutions, incentive models, ease of access into digital currency and NFT's without the need for know-how of the technology, along with the understanding of what products have been used for after they are sold is how we try to mitigate these challenges.