Build & Deploy - Downtown Stimulus CLR App

[owocki]

The scope of this bounty is to build & deploy a new app, called Downtown Stimulus.

WHY

Downtown businesses have been hit HARD by COVID-19, and are seriously struggling to pay rent.

Existing stimulus moneys have gone largely to large corporations, and not enough support have been given to downtown businesses.

WHAT

With Gitcoin Grants, we have proven that we have a scalable, democratic, way of allocating funds to people who are doing great work.

Downtown Stimulus takes Gitcoin Grants Style CLR and allows people to donate to their favorite downtown businesses (initially a pilot round of $25k in downtown boulder) via Stripe.. and to have their contributions matched by our $25k Matching Fund.

If this pilot project is successful, we plan to do a larger round + to franchise this app across the country, allowing municipalities to democratically fund themselves with QF.

This is a once in a year opportunity to make some tokens, to work with top reserachers at Consensys/Gitcoin, and to (if the pilot round is successful and you do a good job) find a job working on something that truly matters.

SCOPE

The below Product Requirements Doc + User flows cover the scope of the initial MVP. It is inclusive of

• Landing Page
• Grant Detail Page
• Login/Auth Experience
• Checkout Experience
• Emails
• Both Frontend & Backend Scope
• CLR Calculations

See these assets for more details.

• Downtown Stimulus Pitch Deck
• Product Requirements Doc
• User Flows

Ideal Applicant

Time Required

Available to work on this project full time for the next 2 weeks.

Technology Skills Required

• Stripe API
• Google/FB OAuth
• Python/Django

WHEN

We are working on a tight schedule to deliver a working app by the launch of the pilot project.

• Applicant Selected - Monday 5/18
• Kickoff Call 5/19
• WIP PR started 5/22
• MVP Due 6/1
• Pilot Program Kickoff 6/7

Applicant Instructions

Please only apply if you fit the candidate requirements & can reliably deliver this scope within the timeline above.

Individuals & Teams are both welcome to apply.

Things to consider before applying:

• Do I seriously care about the mission?
• Can I make myself available for daily standsup with the team.
• Do I have the technical skills for this?
• Do I have both frontend HTML/CSS/JS skills and backend Python/Django skills?
• Can I inspect the Gitcoin Grants Code + transport it over to this new app?

See Also

• Gitcoin Grants
• Gitcoin Grants CLR calcluation Code

Thank you

Thank you for your consideration. Pls drop any comments/questions below.

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[Anish-Agnihotri]

Would have applied in an instant if I was available full-time for the next two weeks and the back-end stack was JS.

I've finished my NY Blockchain Week hack already, and am happy to help build out the complete front-end (in React or Vue) for the application pro-bono if anyone takes up this bounty and wants to focus their efforts on the Django + payments infra.

[federicosan]

I was wondering this too @Anish-Agnihotri my web dev skills are stronger in node as I use python only for ML AI-related projects.

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1) psudoanon has applied to start work (Funders only: approve worker | reject worker).

Hey,

I have prior professional experience with Python / Django along with plenty of web application design. Based in EST and am used to working with daily stand-ups.

After taking a look at the Figma prototype and the existing Gitcoin Grants Django code I think the above timeline for an MVP launch seems completely reasonable; I'm have enough availability over the next few weeks to be dedicated to this full time.

As far as the scope of this ticket is concerned, will the selected applicant also be responsible for setting up the domains, servers, etc? Are there any preferences regarding containerized environments like Docker to make deployment as potable as possible?

Thanks,
Adam
2) x5engine has applied to start work (Funders only: approve worker | reject worker).

I am really interested in building this MVP and making it available in time to be used helping small businesses in Downtown Boulder, I am a full-stack and get this pretty quickly done since this usually what I do! The User flow seems pretty clear and UX would best if we build a nice intuitive UI for it while having a fast loading app, like React/Django, which will make 10 times faster to build and also load!
3) undercovergod has applied to start work (Funders only: approve worker | reject worker).

Hi
I have Both Django and Frontend skills and confident on timely delivery of MVP of this application.
I am interested in working in its full scale version and hope to contribute to this useful project.
I would propose VueJS as frontend framework as its much better for rapid development than angular or react(I am comfortable with both; though react would be my least preferred choice). And backend work will be quite simple as mostly we will take care of payment and authentication as far as I can see. I see it being completed in required time.
Thanks
4) tsujp has applied to start work (Funders only: approve worker | reject worker).

I have extensive experience with TypeScript and React with Hooks as well as various cloud providers including AWS, GCP, and Alibaba Cloud.

I have intermediate Python skills which should suffice for the backend logic as here it is minimal as the use of the Stripe API handles a majority of the meat surrounding payment logic.

Emails, CLR, landing, OAuth are all domains I have familiarity with and am comfortable doing as I have developed applications both for myself and others with these scope items in place. Overall the design, development requirements, and timeline for this application look fine and due to COVID-19 I have nothing but time to work on these kinds of projects and am excited to do so as I am also a small downtown business which could in future benefit from this type of application directly.
5) thesachinmittal has been approved to start work.

Hey Kevin, I have been involved in the design of this initiative with Zach @Consensys(Boulder Retailers). And I am really intended to be a part of it. We have a whole team of developers + designers (@Ethifylabs) who are regular gitcoiners.

We would be really happy to work on this.
6) kencode7 has applied to start work (Funders only: approve worker | reject worker).

Hello Owocki
Democratizing fund distribution is awesome especially this season.
I do have a team of Designers and Developer that are Gitcoiners that are interested in this kind of mission to help startups and small businesses and we are available for daily reports and stand ups.
React will do the UI (We love the design flow) and API's, Auth. using Django is cool for our Backends (Though I would love to find out if there is any specific reason to prefer Django). Already started looking at the Gitcoin Grants Code (reason for Python/Django).
we even had @goodness14 come onboard Gitcoin so He can be part of the project If accepted.

we will keep reviewing the Docs until your decision.
7) acharb has applied to start work (Funders only: approve worker | reject worker).

Hi - I think this is a great mission-driven project I would love to be a part of. I've worked with Python/Django commercially for a couple of years. I threw this Django/React repo together in a couple of days for example: https://github.com/acharb/alec-profile-django-react.

I've built APIs using Django-Rest-Framework, and full-stack applications using primarily Postgres DBs and Javascript frontends (either Angular or React).

I am free for the next couple of weeks so would be available throughout the day. Currently I'm living in Pacific Standard Time time zone.
8) zoek1 has applied to start work (Funders only: approve worker | reject worker).

Do I seriously care about the mission? I'm near people suffering by the COVID-19 in both ways in health and economic, the government stimulus isn't enough and I was looking for some ways to help people in this situation.
Can I make myself available for daily standsup with the team? Sure, I don't have any problem with this
Do I have the technical skills for this? I previously implemented integrations with Stripe and other payment methods in previous jobs, also I added the OAuth mechanism for Google on mobile apps.
Do I have both frontend HTML/CSS/JS skills and backend Python/Django skills? Yes, also I develop on Vue and React/React Native.
Can I inspect the Gitcoin Grants Code + transport it over to this new app? Sure, I've been working many in the gitcoin codebase so i'm familiarized with it
9) boamahep has applied to start work (Funders only: approve worker | reject worker).

This is a great project and I am willing to commit to working on this project full time with a team. Covid-19 have affected many businesses and as developers of great innovation, we can help these business come back strong again. I will be happy if I am added to this project.
10) hunghus has applied to start work (Funders only: approve worker | reject worker).

Hello, nice to meet. It'd be my honor to help you. Here are some of my steps to get closer to our work:

• Receive project
• Analysis the project
• Build plan
• Sign contract
• Pay 20%
• Start working
• Demo
• Edit and maintenance
• Pay 60%
• Finish
• Pay 20%
  11) flipchan has applied to start work (Funders only: approve worker | reject worker).

1: Create a python django or flask application with stripe and sql integration for storing user details(email, username, passwd)
2: Design the frontend and make it easy for the end user to donate
3: add the option to pay with crypto currency and sign in with metamask
4: finish design and backend and deploy it internet facing
12) godfredakpan has applied to start work (Funders only: approve worker | reject worker).

Hello! Well I actually would love to take this and deliver, Covid is really messing things up. If doing this will help people I’m all up for it.
Okay my plan will be to design the corresponding flow chart of the application. By so doing I’ll know how to configure the database. After that I’ll design the UI(to guide me in working fast) after all that the real work and integration starts. 🐍 is the perfect job for this. With Django at my finger tips. I’ll be done before the timeline!
13) maexx393 has applied to start work (Funders only: approve worker | reject worker).

I will research about various businesses facing Covid-19 challenges and how to possibly embed their accounting structure into quadratic funding model to enable a larger audience to donate into businesses.
14) mikaellazarev has applied to start work (Funders only: approve worker | reject worker).

Hi! I'm very interested to participate in this challenge and ready to develop ready solution for you.
However, I have soome questions, especially in case of technical stack.

I could help you as developer and as product manager also.
Look forward to meet u

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[kencode7]

I would love to participate in this project even if is to Partner with someone with strong Python/Django skills. I'm very good with Frontend engineering, and I will like to bring it to this idea

[owocki]

excited to seee all the interest here. i will review the submissions with katie/zach and get back to yall early next week

[psudoanon]

@owocki any updates regarding candidate selection? Looking at the timeline it looks like the kickoff call is happening soon

[owocki]

discussing it with katie/zach today. i should have an update tomo

[owocki]

timeline might slip

[godfredakpan]

Okay @owocki we will be expecting feedback, 😊

[owocki]

chatted with katie/zach today. were going to reach out to a few of you in the next 24 hours, aiming to select someone by EOW

[owocki]

hey all - it was a hard decision, but we decided to go with @thesachinmittal & crew . i talked to a few of you all on email/chat and there were many strong candidates.. in the end sachin & his team had the strongest candidacy so thats why we went with them.

that said, i do have some other stuff coming down the pike that i'd like to work with a subset of the rest of you on. contact me on gitcoin chat for more details if interested :)

thank you all again for your time & attention.

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[sazeleo]

Thanks for the opp. Edgelord @owocki . We are looking forward to jamming on this. We have already started with implementation workflow here:
https://www.notion.so/Initial-Challenges-and-Setup-209a358a58544e0891bd3b4598136bce

Eagerly waiting for our kick-off meeting.

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