Grant Proposal: iKnowSpots

Community Grant Applications
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Grant ID: 8686ce7d9

Summary:

With a strong focus on inclusivity and communication, our platform encourages connections among individuals from various backgrounds and interests. We aim to foster a sense of togetherness in this new era of event hosting. Our platform also includes an RSVP escrow feature, which further enhances community involvement and trust.

We believe that creating a seamless and accessible platform for community leaders will have a positive impact on the broader blockchain community. By supporting this initiative, we can contribute to the growth and vibrancy of the blockchain ecosystem.

All the important links are as follows:

  1. PitchDeck: Pitch
  2. Website: https://www.iknowspots.com/
  3. Twitter: https://twitter.com/iknowspots
  4. LinkedIn: iknowspots | LinkedIn
    5.Whitepaper: I Know Spots Whitepaper.pdf - Google Drive

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Describe what your project does or is aiming to do in 50 characters or less:
We prioritize community leaders and organizers, providing them with user-friendly tools to create, manage, and promote events. We help them to boost their engagements with our ticketing tools and reward systems. Our platform fosters inclusivity, encourages communication, and offers RSVP escrow to boost community engagement. It’s about empowering and connecting people in a new era of event hosting.

If available, please enter a link to your project below:
http://www.iknowspots.com

How far along are you?:
The product is fully prepared and currently in private beta mode, showcasing its advanced capabilities in line with multi-chain standards.

Why did you pick this idea to work on? Do you have domain expertise in this area? How do you know people need what you’re making?:
Yes, web3 is all about communities and we know what kind of problems they face during expanding and finding talents to represent them.

What’s new about what you’re making? What substitutes do people resort to because it doesn’t exist yet (or they don’t know about it)?:

  • No present solution to authenticate identity participants & organizers to avoid scams.

  • Over 70% of event registrations don’t turn into event attendance.
    This causes monetary & resource loss for event managers

What’s your vision for how your project will impact The Graph and/or web3?:
Since everything is on chain, there will be having transcations for every action on the platform. This will benifit the web3 space and emerging blockchains in the space on which iKnowSpots is deployed on.

How will you measure success?:
By onboarding masses on our platform and making its UX so easy to use that one couldn’t able to differentiate between web3 and web2 product.

What milestones will you achieve in the coming weeks/months, with or without the grant?:
Q4 2023
Platform Robustness

  • Exhaustive platform testing
  • Market validation through hackathons and workshops

Q1 2024

  • iKnowSpots mobile app
    LAUNCH

Q2 2024
Protocol Development

  • Converting product backend into SDKs
  • Building infra of our core features
  • Protocol docs for dev support

Q3 2024

  • Public Profiles with I Know Spots

Please select who you think will benefit from your project?:
Curators, Delegators, Subgraph Developers

How much funding are you looking for? (USD):
10000

Provide a breakdown of your requested funding:
$5000
Design and Development

$3000
Smart Contracts Auditing

$2000
Marketing, Communtity tie ups and conducting workshops and sessions.

Have you applied for (or already received) funding from somewhere else?:
Yes

If yes, please describe where you’ve received funding from and how much you have, or will, receive:
We will be receiving $3000 from aleo blockchain as an ignition grants.

Can you share any information about current/past web3 experience?:
We have been in the space from past 2 years and won around 10 global hacakthons. Also been founding part of many emmerging startups in web3 space.

Why are you interested in contributing to The Graph and/or web3?:
Web3 is all about communities and our product increases community engagement. It’s very future proof to survive and build a startup.

Are you applying as a team or individual?:
Team

What type of grant are you pursuing?:
Long-term (continuous)

Please select the category your project best fits into:
Dashboards & Analytics




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#2

Thank you for submitting your proposal. After review of the content, this appears to be a tooling grant application and is therefore not within scope of community grants that the Graph AdvocatesDAO oversees.

You can submit your proposal directly to the Graph Foundation following this link: The Graph: Grants Application. Good luck!

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