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Every single thing is based on transparency and anyone can easily access all the code.\n\nAccessible Documentation: We provide comprehensive documentation for users and contributors.\n\nLicense Compliance: Our open-source licenses ensure continued accessibility and freedom.\n\nEcosystem Contribution: We contribute to the broader Web 3.0 ecosystem by promoting collaboration and interoperability.\n\n Stogram embraces the principles of open-source development, making our project a strong candidate for the funding round's criteria.\n\n\n\n\n", "hidden": false, "question": "Please explain how your project meets the round-specific eligibility criteria", "questionId": 11}, {"type": "paragraph", "hidden": false, "question": "If you've participated in past grant rounds, please share any new updates or milestones from the prior months", "questionId": 12}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Stogram, is a critical aspect of evaluating its success and ensuring that our objectives are being met. We employ a combination of qualitative and quantitative metrics to comprehensively gauge the project's influence. Here are some examples of how we measure impact:\n\n##  User Engagement and Satisfaction:\n\n- **Active Users** : Tracking the number of active users on the platform gives us an understanding of how well Stogram is retaining its audience.\n\n- **User Feedback** : Gathering user feedback through surveys and comments helps us assess user satisfaction and identify areas for improvement.\n\n## Data Privacy and Security:\n\n- **Data Breaches**  : Monitoring for any data breaches or unauthorized access incidents, aiming for zero breaches to ensure user data security.\n\n- **Privacy Settings Utilization**  : Analyzing how often users modify their privacy settings can indicate their level of comfort and control over their data.\n\n## Creativity and NFTs:\n\n- **Number of Minted NFTs** : Counting the number of posts minted as NFTs provides insights into how well the NFT integration is being received by users.\n\n- **Transaction Volume** : Monitoring the transaction volume of NFT sales on our platform showcases the economic value generated for creators.\n\n## Community Engagement:\n\n- **Donations** : Tracking the amount of donations made by users to posts and artists indicates the community's involvement and support for creators.\n\n- **Collaborative Projects** : Measuring the frequency of collaborative projects among users showcases the growth of a vibrant and engaged community.\n\n##  Ethical Impact:\n\n- **User Reports**  : Analyzing the frequency of user-reported content for ethical violations demonstrates the platform's success in promoting responsible sharing.\n\n- **Advertisement-Free Environment** : Ensuring a completely advertisement-free environment aligns with our ethical goals, which can be measured through user satisfaction.\n\n## Global Reach:\n\n- **Geographical Diversity** : Monitoring user distribution across regions indicates our success in creating a globally inclusive platform.\n\n##  Technical Innovation:\n\n- **Technology Adoption** : Assessing the adoption of advanced technologies like IPFS and NFTs indicates Stogram's role in driving innovation within the social media space.\n\nThese metrics collectively offer a comprehensive view of Stogram's impact. They allow us to track user engagement, data security, creative empowerment, community growth, ethical considerations, global reach, and technological advancement. ", "hidden": false, "question": "How do you measure the impact of your project? Please provide examples and/or standard metrics. This might be used in future impact reports", "questionId": 13}, {"type": "paragraph", "hidden": false, "question": "Anything else you'd like to share about your project, previous work, or other project affiliations? Anything you'd like to add that may help in determining project eligibility?", "questionId": 14}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "Yes", "hidden": true, "question": "Would you like to opt-in to future messages from Gitcoin for updates, information, and/or interviews?", "questionId": 15}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "Yes", "hidden": true, "question": "Would you like to opt-in to us sharing your information with select third-parties for investment opportunities?", "questionId": 16}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "Asia", "hidden": false, "question": "Location/Region where the project is based", "questionId": 17}], "project": {"id": "10:0x8e1bD5Da87C14dd8e08F7ecc2aBf9D1d558ea174:916", "title": "Stogram", "logoImg": "bafkreidfqrob7q4v56ku7yn26rg2h5u2wcuypbd4oyh2wqdfiiidfntetm", "metaPtr": {"pointer": "bafkreieawplcocx4vmjbkwlo5n4qnya5t5ttz7p4yi65mqek34jvut6sy4", "protocol": "1"}, "website": "https://stogram.vercel.app", "bannerImg": "bafkreifm6cc7m27mjh4mj24fbigertcke3ho5edfxrgyyid3k4krxhexdq", "createdAt": 1691925494706, "userGithub": "ayush035", "credentials": {"github": {"type": ["VerifiableCredential"], "proof": {"jws": "eyJhbGciOiJFZERTQSIsImNyaXQiOlsiYjY0Il0sImI2NCI6ZmFsc2V9..g-wukO-xKRPo-j526vKMNGP0ZrQkfXNUCYhF1WkYJGoJ_gDPStJKIoUkKKKpO3k_khzSyrIZbn0o7REldefIBg", "type": "Ed25519Signature2018", "created": "2023-08-13T10:04:34.383Z", "proofPurpose": "assertionMethod", "verificationMethod": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC#z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC"}, "issuer": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC", "@context": ["https://www.w3.org/2018/credentials/v1"], "issuanceDate": "2023-08-13T10:04:34.383Z", "expirationDate": "2023-11-11T10:04:34.383Z", "credentialSubject": {"id": "did:pkh:eip155:1:0xC72fa67241b2Ab95776DB23Cb27A845d4290d75B", "hash": "v0.0.0:EKklgXqevCV8FX/uWoZahgBlFYA7Hr1mquMR8O8zndI=", "@context": [{"hash": "https://schema.org/Text", "provider": "https://schema.org/Text"}], "provider": "ClearTextGithubOrg#StogramHQ#75483021"}}, "twitter": {"type": ["VerifiableCredential"], "proof": {"jws": "eyJhbGciOiJFZERTQSIsImNyaXQiOlsiYjY0Il0sImI2NCI6ZmFsc2V9..Cxviqz4DHOulePG8AfKQA4QIqLwSjkvtBkSxkYGpYBzciDIHvUSJBjU9QGxgMoWJu8UR3D39kYRfy8HuGMAiAg", "type": "Ed25519Signature2018", "created": "2023-08-13T10:01:49.263Z", "proofPurpose": "assertionMethod", "verificationMethod": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC#z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC"}, "issuer": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC", "@context": ["https://www.w3.org/2018/credentials/v1"], "issuanceDate": "2023-08-13T10:01:49.263Z", "expirationDate": "2023-11-11T10:01:49.263Z", "credentialSubject": {"id": "did:pkh:eip155:1:0xC72fa67241b2Ab95776DB23Cb27A845d4290d75B", "hash": "v0.0.0:bVJEXdE3A4CiE+eXjw5Qu1hpcluCXuljpAJnNiousvY=", "@context": [{"hash": "https://schema.org/Text", "provider": "https://schema.org/Text"}], "provider": "ClearTextTwitter#StogramHQ"}}}, "description": "# Stogram\n\nStogram is a decentralized social media platform. By utilizing Web 3 Storage solutions provided by IPFS (InterPlanetary File System), Stogram aims to provide users with a privacy-focused and advertisement-free experience.\n\nThe platform allows users to post various types of media such as pictures, videos, and gifs. Instead of relying on traditional storage methods, Stogram leverages IPFS to store the users' data. This decentralized approach ensures that Stogram does not need to store user data or utilize cookies, enhancing privacy and preventing potential privacy exploitation. Hence preventing your privacy and user experience from getting exploited.\n\n## Some of the key features of stogram are :\n\n1. **Decentralized Architecture** : Stogram harnesses the power of Web 3.0 by utilizing IPFS for storage. This decentralized approach ensures data integrity, availability, and privacy, eliminating the risks associated with central servers and preventing our users from data exploitation.\n\n2. **Enhanced User Experience** : Our platform is designed for intuitive navigation and interaction. We're investing in professional developers and UI/UX designers to provide an engaging and user-friendly environment. Providing  users with easy accessibility \n\n3. **Seamless Communication** : Stogram is more than just posts. With our upcoming messaging and calling feature, users can connect and converse effortlessly, fostering meaningful connections.\n\n4. **NFT Integration** : We're merging art and technology. Stogram users can now mint their posts as NFTs on the Filecoin network, thanks to our IPFS-backed NFT storage solution. This introduces new revenue streams for creators and collectors.\n\n5. **Supporting Creativity** : Our donation feature empowers users to support artists directly. By allowing users to donate to posts they love, we're cultivating a community that values creativity and rewards it.\n\n6. **Privacy Empowerment** : Stogram ensures that users have control over their data. Our decentralized approach and encryption protocols put privacy back in the hands of our users.\n\n7. **Community-Driven** : We're more than a platform; we're a community. Stogram encourages collaboration and engagement through features like shared wallets and customizable privacy settings.\n\n8. **Empowering Content Ownership**  : Users retain ownership of their content. Stogram's decentralized structure ensures that no single entity has control over user-generated posts.\n\n9. **Future-Ready** : As technology evolves, so does Stogram. We're committed to staying at the forefront of Web 3.0 advancements, ensuring our users always have access to the latest features and innovations.\n\n10. **Ethical Platform** : Stogram's advertisement-free environment ensures that users' experiences are not exploited for profit. Our commitment to ethical practices sets us apart from traditional social media.\n\n## Impact on society\n\nStogram's innovative approach to social media is poised to make a profound impact on society by addressing some of the key challenges prevalent in today's digital landscape.\n\n- ### Empowering User Privacy and Control:\nIn an era where user data is frequently exploited, Stogram champions data privacy by utilizing decentralized storage through IPFS. This empowers users to control their personal information, fostering a sense of ownership and restoring trust in online interactions.\n\n- ### Fostering Authentic Connections:\nStogram's messaging and calling feature promote genuine conversations, fostering meaningful relationships. By eliminating intrusive advertisements, the platform nurtures authentic interactions, driving a shift away from superficial engagement towards more valuable connections.\n\n- ### Supporting Creative Expression:\nThe integration of NFTs on Stogram offers artists a novel platform to monetize their creations. This empowers creators by enabling direct financial support from their audience, encouraging artistic endeavors and cultivating a thriving creative community.\n\n- ### Encouraging Ethical Content Sharing:\nStogram's commitment to an advertisement-free environment safeguards users from manipulative tactics often associated with profit-driven platforms. This encourages ethical content sharing, steering social media away from a \"clickbait\" culture.\n\n- ### Promoting Social Giving:\nThe donation feature enables users to financially support artists, encouraging social giving and valuing the efforts of creators. This promotes a culture of appreciation for artistic contributions and engenders a sense of collective responsibility.\n\n-  ### Enabling Global Collaboration:\nStogram's decentralized structure and NFT integration transcend geographical boundaries, enabling creators and users to collaborate across cultures. This cultivates cross-cultural understanding and collaboration, promoting a global community.\n\n-  ### Spurring Technological Innovation:\nBy embracing cutting-edge technologies like IPFS and NFTs, Stogram drives innovation within the social media landscape. This encourages further development and exploration of decentralized solutions for societal challenges.\n\nIn essence, Stogram's impact on society is profound. It aligns with the growing demand for user-centric, privacy-focused, and ethically responsible online platforms. Stogram's influence reaches beyond the virtual realm, championing positive change and fostering an ecosystem where technology serves society's best interests.\n\n## Roadmapp\n\n**Quarter 1: Enhancing User Experience and Core Features**\n\n1. User Interface Overhaul: Engage professional UI/UX designers to revamp Stogram's interface, ensuring a seamless, intuitive, and visually appealing experience for users and it to the whole next level.\n\n2. Decentralization Optimization: Continuously refine and optimize our decentralized architecture powered by IPFS. This ensures data reliability, privacy, and seamless content retrieval.\n\n3. Communication Integration: Roll out the messaging and calling feature, enabling users to connect, interact, and foster deeper relationships on the platform.\n\n4. Data Encryption Enhancement: Strengthen data encryption protocols, ensuring that user data remains secure, private, and under their control.\n\n**Quarter 2: NFT Integration and Monetization Expansion**\n\n1. NFT Minting Launch: Introduce the ability for users to mint their posts as NFTs on the Filecoin network. This innovative feature unlocks new possibilities for content monetization.\n\n2. IPFS-NFT Storage Synergy: Fine-tune the integration of IPFS-backed NFT storage, ensuring efficient and secure storage and retrieval of NFTs, supporting the growing demand for unique digital assets.\n\n3. Creator Education Hub: Launch an educational initiative to guide users through the process of minting and selling NFTs, empowering creators to navigate the world of digital art ownership.\n\n4. Community Rewards System: Implement a reward mechanism for active users who mint NFTs and engage in the Stogram community, fostering a vibrant and engaged ecosystem.\n\n**Quarter 3: Privacy Empowerment and Platform Expansion**\n\n1. Customizable Privacy Settings: Introduce advanced privacy settings that allow users to tailor their content visibility, ensuring they have control over who sees their posts.\n\n2. Global Outreach Campaign: Launch a comprehensive marketing drive to expand Stogram's user base globally, emphasizing our commitment to user privacy and decentralized engagement.\n\n3. Collaborative Projects: Enable users to collaborate on projects through shared wallets, allowing for co-ownership of NFTs and enhancing collective creativity.\n\n**Quarter 4**: Sustainability and Future Innovations\n\n1. Monetization Reinvestment: Allocate a portion of revenue generated from NFT sales and community donations towards platform development, ensuring the long-term sustainability of Stogram.\n\n2. Continued Technological Innovation: Stay at the forefront of Web 3.0 advancements, exploring blockchain integration and other emerging technologies to further enhance user experience and data security.\n\n3. Cross-Platform Integration: Begin exploratory work on enabling Stogram users to interact and share content seamlessly across other Web 3.0 platforms, expanding the decentralized social ecosystem.\n\nThese are some of the decided objectives that we plan to achieve and implement in our project.  In order to grow our project further and achieve our milestones we require support from all of you. \n", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectGithub": "StogramHQ", "projectTwitter": "StogramHQ"}, "recipient": "0x4976e41e2f43169B9a4330805aA1E004840Fd69a"}}