Smartists - Private Art Studios on the Internet of Value. about grants-program HOT 12 CLOSED

Nice project Georgina et al - best of luck!

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Nice project Georgina et al - best of luck!

Thank you, Mike!

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Review Committee Feedback from 9/8/2020: We'd like more information on your proposal.

Thank you for your application! You have a clear vision of an application that you can bring to the world and we're excited to see your plans.

The full build of the application is a large project, larger than what the grant amount could fund, so we were hoping you could break things down into smaller milestones. Here are two different directions we suggest for an updated proposal:

1. Scope a mock-up of your application as milestone 1 and scope the funding down for that size. By creating a UI mock-up it will help provide context around how Smartists will work within the application, how they can meet their needs, and be the first step towards building out a technical application. Through creation of the mock-up you can showcase: the actions users can do in the MVP; the user flow through the app; get feedback from potential users on the design; scope out what types of functionality is required (ability to upload images, video, etc.)?

2. Develop the MVP of the Smartist smart contract first. You listed this as part C but work on this type of marketplace smart contract could be useful to the whole ecosystem as code that could be reused in different marketplaces. What would be the mock-up and functionality of this smart contract? Are you able to design the interaction as a milestone 1? Then you could apply for additional funding to develop out the smart contract if the design is clear.

We're excited to see your app come to life on Blockstack. Although the grant program does not provide direct funding for independent apps, pieces of your application could be useful to the broader ecosystem and would add to a showcase of use cases. Designing what the new ownership of art could look like using the Stacks Blockchain is really interesting.

If you would like to update your proposal with the above feedback, you may do so as a reply to this comment or edit the original application entry above.

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After talking with the team, and considering your suggestions, we agree and are ready to make a few changes to the application.

A UI mock-up for testing (suggestion #1) is already available completely for Phase 1 and needs to be worked for Phase 2 and Phase 3. We have actually been testing this prototype with potential end-users(artist community). Nevertheless, we would like to have the chance to show it to the committee and community for feedback and eventually improve it if necessary. As suggested we would like to apply for this with 800 $ grants. Duration is 2 to 4 weeks (including community review and feedback).

Also, we want to apply for another grant for finishing Phase 1 of Smartists, that includes "Upload the artists/art-users to the platform and allow them to set up their own studio", since the prototype is already ready and tested with artist community people - For this phase to be completed, we will integrate Blockstack Connect and Gaia + front-end react UI. For this grant requested grants are 3000 $. Duration - 8 to 10 weeks.

For the Smartists smart contract (suggestion #2) further research is needed, and it is beyond our possibilities right now.

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Unexpected changes in our team have come up, and we can no longer can commit to the milestones as explained in the application. In such circumstances, we can only apply to the $800 for the UI mock-up (2 to 4 weeks duration, including testing for feedback).

At this moment, we need to find a new developing partner, and any help in our search will be welcome.

I will edit the original application above accordingly.

I am sorry for the timing, and apologize for the inconveniences, but I only got confirmation of these news a few hours ago.

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Review Committee Feedback from 9/15/2020: We'd like more information on your proposal.

Hi @SmartMirlo thank you for the update, things happen, no worries. My name is Raffi and I'm working with the Foundation on the grants program. We'll need to sync up to discuss whether it makes sense to provide the grant for just the mockup. A couple questions that will help us decide, would it be low-fi or hi-fi, and what are you using, figma or another tool? Also, could you please share previous design work where you've created UI mockups, personas, etc?

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Dear committee,

After thinking it through, at this time I cannot make a new mock-up just to follow the suggestion of the grant. It was my mistake to ask for it, and I am sorry for that.

I am very respectful for the time of all of us, so I think the correct thing to do is to step back and close this issue.

May my previous comment, answering Raffi, serve to know each other better.

Thank you.

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Hi @SmartMirlo, perhaps it's best to get on a call to talk through the best way to scope the proposal. We're excited about what you can showcase to the community. Could you send some time availability that overlaps with EST working hours to grants {at} stacks {dot} org email address. We can discuss further details to determine scope and grant fit.

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I just sent the email. Thank you very much, @blocks8.

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Just a quick followup, @blocks8 ! I wanted to share with the committee a video of the prototype so you can see. Is this possible? I remain open to talk as you suggested and I hope you received the email. Thank you!

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