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We've focused on better optimisations and to make the process of user onboarding seamless and smoother.  Updated the tech on backend to comply with the latest updates released by IPFS for web3storage to keep the application seamless and avoid any obstacle that may interfere with user experience.  As promised we've worked hard and tried to complete the tasks and achievements we mentioned for Quarter 1. ", "hidden": false, "question": "If you've participated in past grant rounds, please share any new updates or milestones from the prior months (N/A if you haven\u2019t participated previously)", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "short-answer", "hidden": true, "question": "If you participated in past grant rounds using a different project payout wallet address, please share it here", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "https://stogram.vercel.app/", "hidden": false, "question": "Where should we look to see the impact of your project? Please provide links to public websites and/or the latest values for key metrics you track privately. This might be used in future impact reports", "questionId": 10}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "Grants", "hidden": false, "question": "Which of the following funding sources do you have? Check all that apply.", "questionId": 11}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "11 months", "hidden": false, "question": "How old is the project? (in months if less than one year)", "questionId": 12}, {"type": "dropdown", "answer": "Asia", "hidden": false, "question": "Location/Region where the project team is based", "questionId": 13}, {"type": "dropdown", "answer": "Yes", "hidden": false, "question": "Have you read and confirmed your grant abides by the Program General Eligibility Policy?", "questionId": 14}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "We participated in the Autonomous worlds hackathon hosted by ETHGlobal in May ,2023 . More details can be found here : https://ethglobal.com/events/autonomous", "hidden": false, "question": "Which Hackathon did you Participate in?  Please provide the name and a link to the event.", "questionId": 15}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "The link to hackathon project page : https://ethglobal.com/showcase/stogram-8wi7p .", "hidden": false, "question": "Include a link to your Hackathon project page showing your proof of participation, e.g., Buidlbox, Eth hackathon, Backdrop, etc.)", "questionId": 16}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "Stogram 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.  The 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.  One notable advantage of using IPFS is that it allows users to manage their data easily. By storing files on IPFS, users can access their content from any device without the need to carry large files or occupy local storage. This decentralized storage approach can alleviate the burden on users' devices while ensuring data availability.  Stogram also provides a hassle-free login process by allowing users to connect their wallets. This integration streamlines the authentication process, allowing users to access their accounts without the need for traditional username/password combinations.  Additionally, Stogram offers users the flexibility to choose the privacy settings for their posts. They can decide whether to keep their content private or make it accessible to the public. This customization empowers users to share their content based on their preferences and comfort levels.  Users can easily connect with their friends by adding them to their account just by searching their wallet addresses/ENS . Then you can easily view what everyone's posting ,share them and have fun.  In summary, Stogram presents a decentralized social media solution that prioritizes privacy, data ownership, and user control. By leveraging IPFS for storage and implementing wallet-based authentication, the platform aims to create a more secure and user-centric social media experience.", "hidden": false, "question": "Describe the project you developed during the hackathon. Highlight how your project offers innovative solutions or prototypes.", "questionId": 17}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "Stogram addresses several clear needs and challenges within the open-source software (OSS) and broader technology ecosystem, focusing on enhancing user privacy, empowering creators, and fostering ethical interactions in the digital space. Here are the specific ways in which Stogram is tackling these issues:  Enhancing User Privacy and Data Control: Traditional social media platforms store user data centrally, making it susceptible to breaches and misuse. Stogram uses IPFS, a decentralized storage solution, to eliminate the reliance on central servers, thus enhancing data privacy and security. This architecture ensures that users retain control over their data, a critical need in today's digital landscape where data exploitation is rampant.  NFT Integration and Creator Support: Stogram plans to introduce a novel approach for creators to monetize their content through NFTs. By allowing users to mint their posts as NFTs, Stogram addresses the gap in direct monetization opportunities for creators within the digital space. This feature not only promotes artistic endeavors but also provides a new revenue stream that is more direct and fair compared to traditional ad-revenue models.  Advertisement-Free Environment: By choosing to operate without advertisements, Stogram ensures that the user experience is not compromised for profit. This commitment to ethical practices addresses the widespread issue of manipulative and intrusive advertising in social media, fostering a more genuine and focused user interaction.  Decentralized and Cross-Platform Capabilities: The use of decentralized technologies like IPFS and the potential for cross-platform integration make Stogram a pioneer in promoting global collaboration. This addresses the need for a universally accessible platform that is not limited by geographical or infrastructural boundaries, making it a vital tool for global creative collaboration.  User Interface and Experience Enhancements: Investing in high-quality UI/UX design ensures that the platform is intuitive and accessible, which is particularly important in OSS projects that often suffer from user interface issues. This focus on usability makes Stogram more approachable for a wider audience, bridging the gap between complex technology and user-friendly design.  Continuous Technological Advancements: By staying at the forefront of Web 3.0 technologies, Stogram addresses the need for continuous innovation within the tech ecosystem. This commitment not only enhances the platform's features over time but also contributes to the broader OSS community by potentially offering new tools, libraries, and practices that can be adopted by other projects.", "hidden": false, "question": "Describe how your project addresses clear needs within the OSS or tech ecosystem. Please elaborate on the specific challenges or gaps your project aims to fill.", "questionId": 18}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "Yes all the code is public and repos can easily be found on github . The OSS license we have is GNU General Public License .", "hidden": false, "question": "What type of open source software (OSS) license(s) do you have? Is all of your code available on public repos, or is some portion of your codebase private?", "questionId": 19}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "We've tried building a better application for seamleess user onboarding and smooth optimizations . Updated backend to comply with latest technology released by IPFS, integrated worldcoin ID in order to make each and every profile on our social media platform unique and authentic keeping the platform forge proof and free from bots ,tampering and spaming. still making more developments to include latest technologies and make our platform more useful and safe for our users. ", "hidden": false, "question": "What progress has your project made post-hackathon? Detail any developments, improvements, or milestones reached since the hackathon concluded.", "questionId": 20}, {"type": "short-answer", "hidden": false, "question": "Is there anything else you'd like to share about your project, previous work, or other affiliations? Is there anything you'd like to add that may help determine project eligibility?", "questionId": 21}, {"type": "dropdown", "answer": "Yes", "hidden": true, "question": "Would you like to opt-in to future messages from Gitcoin for updates, information, and/or interviews?", "questionId": 22}, {"type": "dropdown", "answer": "Yes", "hidden": true, "question": "Would you like to opt-in to us sharing your information with select third-parties for investment opportunities?", "questionId": 23}], "project": {"id": "0xafa569b3df50c6c51374bf2b214eb7c948cf3dce2a65c3f627bce0a2603cec72", "title": "Stogram", "logoImg": "bafkreidfqrob7q4v56ku7yn26rg2h5u2wcuypbd4oyh2wqdfiiidfntetm", "metaPtr": {"pointer": "bafkreiahdbumzgqdqhzzcwvgsbb73vinstgcevv6txu5ideqbvadtlurku", "protocol": "undefined"}, "website": "https://stogram.vercel.app", "bannerImg": "bafkreifm6cc7m27mjh4mj24fbigertcke3ho5edfxrgyyid3k4krxhexdq", "createdAt": 1691925494706, "userGithub": "ayush035", "credentials": {"github": {"type": ["VerifiableCredential"], "proof": {"jws": "eyJhbGciOiJFZERTQSIsImNyaXQiOlsiYjY0Il0sImI2NCI6ZmFsc2V9..bWiq6MeAM2f817YjLtiJmNr9eFWWh0R2U6bwikF8NF585AqeF9Y1bEIwmCCkXgSzDrcLB8K1f8gpKzNzdBhdAg", "type": "Ed25519Signature2018", "created": "2024-04-13T19:06:27.522Z", "proofPurpose": "assertionMethod", "verificationMethod": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC#z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC"}, "issuer": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC", "@context": ["https://www.w3.org/2018/credentials/v1"], "issuanceDate": "2024-04-13T19:06:27.522Z", "expirationDate": "2024-07-12T19:06:27.522Z", "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..z4m8hMXCARyGNDMeiLkc16YIn0KevSdQ54oakereBAUz_N8tS3KP3sb-B5yN4KUdzoqTCWxuog5RvCAUr1_eBg", "type": "Ed25519Signature2018", "created": "2024-04-13T19:06:18.639Z", "proofPurpose": "assertionMethod", "verificationMethod": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC#z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC"}, "issuer": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC", "@context": ["https://www.w3.org/2018/credentials/v1"], "issuanceDate": "2024-04-13T19:06:18.639Z", "expirationDate": "2024-07-12T19:06:18.639Z", "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## Roadmap\n\n**Quarter 1: Enhancing User Experience and Core Features**  (Achieved) \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\n\n## Updates\n\n1. In the past three months we've updated the UI/UX of the project offering a smooth and easy interface for the users to use and become handy for them.\n\n2. We've focused on better optimisations and to make the process of user onboarding seamless and smoother.\n\n3. Updated the tech on backend to comply with the latest updates released by IPFS for web3storage to keep the application seamless and avoid any obstacle that may interfere with user experience.\n\nAs promised we've worked hard and tried to complete the tasks and achievements we mentioned for Quarter 1. We aspire to make further developments on the project as we mentioned in our proposal and therefore we require support from all of you to raise some funds to continue with the process and further developments.\n\nThanking you.", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectGithub": "StogramHQ", "projectTwitter": "StogramHQ"}, "recipient": "0x4976e41e2f43169B9a4330805aA1E004840Fd69a"}}