vision

a suite of tools for a literal “token of appreciation” that begins as a tipping bot and social graph—and grows to issue VCs as context companions for raw transaction data.

brief

• create a “thank you” token that represents my subjective assessment of how much an individual assisted in my aim towards a specific project.

• a THX token for every major project i’m undertaking.

• tools to “tip” people with my various tokens, so that I can draw a social graph of the people that were helpful to me.

• when a major project ends, do a snapshot of token holders and issue ERC-721’s that record their final stats and commemorate the project.

• be able to tip from Discord, Twitter, and Telegram.

• integrate with Disco to retrieve wallet address from platform usernames.

• create a new VC for specifying a “tip wallet,” which is a preference that the suite of tools would respect.

• issue a VC to accompany every on-chain tip, to provide a mechanism for pairing context and user-specified information with raw ERC-20 transfers.

wild success

a trail of VCs will be able to tell the story of how my friends helped me accomplish one of my goals, and acts as a rudimentary scrapbook of a major life event of mine that occurred primarily online.

my friends enjoy giving out their own “thank you” tokens, and cataloging their own projects with VCs and token tipping.

final thoughts

i like the idea of pestering my friends for their wallet addresses so that I can send them something silly on-chain. for that reason alone, this oughta be fun enough to keep me going.

i think the social graph aspect of this will be pretty easy to pull off.

the mvp can probably be done completely no-code.

i’ll want to keep in mind that this is a social experiment, and the goal is not necessarily to build a product, no matter what the above brief implies. i want to see how people respond to getting a “thank you” token before I try to create a frictionless UI for something nobody enjoys.

oh, and um… i’m pretty much gonna be learning to program again throughout this.

so that should be fun.

vision

a suite of tools for a literal “token of appreciation” that begins as a tipping bot and social graph—and grows to issue VCs as context companions for raw transaction data.

brief

• create a “thank you” token that represents my subjective assessment of how much an individual assisted in my aim towards a specific project.

• a THX token for every major project i’m undertaking.

• tools to “tip” people with my various tokens, so that I can draw a social graph of the people that were helpful to me.

• when a major project ends, do a snapshot of token holders and issue ERC-721’s that record their final stats and commemorate the project.

• be able to tip from Discord, Twitter, and Telegram.

• integrate with Disco to retrieve wallet address from platform usernames.

• create a new VC for specifying a “tip wallet,” which is a preference that the suite of tools would respect.

• issue a VC to accompany every on-chain tip, to provide a mechanism for pairing context and user-specified information with raw ERC-20 transfers.

wild success

a trail of VCs will be able to tell the story of how my friends helped me accomplish one of my goals, and acts as a rudimentary scrapbook of a major life event of mine that occurred primarily online.

my friends enjoy giving out their own “thank you” tokens, and cataloging their own projects with VCs and token tipping.

final thoughts

i like the idea of pestering my friends for their wallet addresses so that I can send them something silly on-chain. for that reason alone, this oughta be fun enough to keep me going.

i think the social graph aspect of this will be pretty easy to pull off.

the mvp can probably be done completely no-code.

i’ll want to keep in mind that this is a social experiment, and the goal is not necessarily to build a product, no matter what the above brief implies. i want to see how people respond to getting a “thank you” token before I try to create a frictionless UI for something nobody enjoys.

oh, and um… i’m pretty much gonna be learning to program again throughout this.

so that should be fun.