(https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Blace-io-Marketplace-Creator/368797-48088)) is under pre-funding development. We are in discussion with the team responsible for the project as a possible base layer for out market place.
This project also has the support of the Cardano AIM team.
Estimated Timeline
We aim to reach a first MVP within first two months, giving us time to get the team together and for blace.io releases their first versions for testing. We then plan to work towards a new release each month (each 2 Sprints).
This first phase of the project will last around 4 months, to deliver a first version of the platform, with core functionality such as having mentor's profiles searchable, with filter criteria functionality, and a way to produce the match/communication between parties.
After the first 4 months, we will aim to produce new evolution based on the insights obtained during the first phase, the type of business model that end up being selected and the willingness/approval/adoption by the community.
Sustainability (Business Model) and Challenge fit
In this phase we want to provide a free version of the platform to help build up momentum and give back to the community the funds obtained to jump starting the platform.
If the experiment is successful we can either continue to provide a free version (funded by the community) or produce a fee based model - we are considering perhaps a small percentage of funded proposals. So in both models the Cardano's ecosystem will benefit from more and higher quality proposals and more proposers (specially from outside the ecosystem), thus aligning with this challenge goal. By facilitating better ways to be involved with developing value on top of Cardano. Also by generating a source of income for Mentor's we will incentivize that mentor's participation and in the future work towards bring more projects to Cardano through referrals.
Key Metrics
These can be measured by engagement fund to fund:
Number of mentors actively on the platform
Number of proposals onboarded through the platform
Number of successful proposals mentored through the platform
Costs structure
3 Developers/UX - USD 3000 per month each - USD 36.000
2 Founders/Project Leader fees, USD 2.000 each.
Infrastructure and other platforms costs, USD 1000.