PGP Proposal: Inshaan + EPNS

🌱 Push Grants Program (PGP) Proposals
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  1. Project Name:
    Inshaan

  2. Email:
    faiz@inshaan[dot]com , inshaancorp@gmail[dot]com

  3. AboutYou:

Faiz Khan: I am Faiz Khan, founder of Inshaan Corporation before that in 2019 I was selected for GSOC at CCextracter for building Poor man’s rekognition but shifted from machine learning and AI to be a product marketer at Masters India, Flojo Inc and also a freelancer since 2018. Having worked as a developer I shifted my career towards marketing in order to understand the acquisition strategy and finances of a company. Since I have been freelancing space for such a long period of time, we figured out some of the root causes in this domain and were really fascinated by how blockchain can really solve those problems. We have been a part of many web3 ecosystems and communities which has allowed us to tap into a new network and understand the power of blockchain and community-driven society.
Email: faiz@inshaan[dot]com , md.faizullahkhan24@gmail[dot]com
Twitter: faizspacekhan
Discord: Faiz_Inshaan#2366

Rahul Saxena: He is a blockchain developer at Sublime Finance and lead blockchain developer/CTO at Inshaan. He has been into application development for the last 3 years. He is also GSoC Fellow in 2020 and 2021, was an Ethereum India 2.0 fellow, contributor at HUFF and won 4 Hackathons. He usually speaks about Defi and is really fascinated by blockchain and its possibilities.
Email: rahul_s@inshaan[dot]com, saxenism.crypto@gmail[dot]com
Twitter: saxenism
Discord: saxenism#8139

Arijeet Satapathy: He is a Product Manager at Slintel (6sense). He is a product guy and is really obsessed is making an impact in the society. Having worked with great companies like Symbo and Netcore Cloud has made him an expert in building SaaS product and the necessary steps to make it profitable. He has been exploring the web3 space for the past 2 years and firm believer of web3 products as the future.
Email: arijeet@inshaan[dot]com, arijeetsat@gmail[dot]com
Twitter: arijeet_sat
Discord: satari#2105

  1. Project TL:DR

Inshaan is first ever web3 one-stop platform specifically designed for freelancers and gig-workers, that incorporates a profile rating system as a staking model(Proof of work), commission-free escrow smart contract and gig-aggregator models for freelancers.

With Inshaan staking mechanism, all community members who are expert in their respective domain can stake and vote on the portfolio of new freelancers and help them to not only rank better on the client side but also include new metrics for evaluation.

In return if the freelancer successfully complete 3-5 projects (decided based on the amount staked) the community member will be rewarded. This helps freelancers, especially the ones who are just starting out and find it very difficult to succeed as a freelancer.

  1. Proposal Category:
    Tooling

  2. Project Overview:
    PROBLEM STATEMENT & SOLUTION
    All of us must have come across this dilemma once in our lifetime that “YOU NEED JOB TO GET EXPERIENCE AND YOU NEED AN EXPERIENCE TO GET A JOB”, well not any more. From the vast amount of freelancer in the ever expanding space, new freelancer finds it difficult to land a client. That’s not it, client faces equally same problem trusting a new freelancer. Not only our profile rating system will help new freelancer to index better in the marketplace, it will also help clients to trust a new freelancer.

Since we can see a number of platform being developed for different community to share the work, its getting very difficult to authenticate, cross check and see reviews of that particular individual. We can have a single portfolio design where an individual can link with multiple platform and share the link of the portfolio along with reviews and previous work record so as to maintain one single point of contact.

Traditionally freelancing marketplace charges huge commission(up-to 40%) in between for escrow payment solution and are really biased towards clients in case of dispute. Inshaan also offers freelancer to make commission free escrow smart contract (In stable coins) with their clients and in case of disputes, community members can participate in the dispute resolution method and get rewarded in return.

Many freelancing marketplace are emerging, which is ultimately good for the community but this leads to a new issue. A gig-worker has to stay active in every platform in order to reach out to clients. We understand that marketplace is a “Chicken and Egg” kind of situation so we have build a gig-aggregator module with gig search feature which will help freelancers to extract gigs from multiple sources to start with like freelancer[dot]com, Guru[dot]com, Peopleperhour[dot]com, Linkedin hiring post, Linkedin contractual jobs, HR & founders on LinkedIn and many more coming soon.

ABOUT INSHAAN IN SHORT:
Inshaan is first ever web3 one-stop platform specifically designed for freelancer, gig-workers, that incorporates a profile rating system as a staking model, commission free escrow smart contract and gig-aggregator models for freelancer.
OUR MISSION &VISION:
To make a contribution to the Gig-economy by making tools for the Developers, Creators, Freelancers, Solopreneurs , Experts, Content creators, Comedians, Artists, Influencers, Vbloggers, Youtubers and professionals of any other field who is trying to do something of their own. Our Vision is to be the Earth’s most Gig-workers eccentric company.

USER JOURNEY:
New freelancer > connect wallet > build portfolio > search for gigs through our gig aggregator or list in profile rating system and get rating and feedback (which will help them to rank better on the client-side) > get clients > make smart contracts > solve dispute through our dispute management system in case of dispute.

Different version vision:
PHASE 0 (IN PROGRESS TO BE COMPLETED BY JUNE 2022) (Funding Ask: $0 PUSH) :-MVP in progress with gig-aggregator, smart contract, Dashboard and dispute management which will be deployed on testnet and testing token faucet.
PHASE 1 (IN PROGRESS TO BE COMPLETED BY JULY 2022) (Funding Ask: $2000) :-First stable version launch on mainnet with all the feature in MVP.
PHASE 2 (IN PROGRESS TO BE COMPLETED BY AUGUST 2022) (Funding Ask: $2500):- Second Stable Version = Feature includes: Messaging, Proposal, Portfolio linking. and other than that:

  • PR and Community Building.

  • Smart Contracts audit

  • DAO formation

  • Partner up with other communities.

  • Event organizing and rewards.
    Phase 3 (FUTURE: AUGUST 2022 to DECEMBER 2022) (Funding Ask: $7500):- Third Stable Version = Feature includes Powerful Dashboard, Profile Rating system (Staking), Marketplace and Client side.

  • Make one free customer acquisition tool such as courses or market-rate charts for freelancers in different domain.

  • Host hackathons and other events/conferences etc for community members.

  • Creation of basic tests for freelancer to get verified to be able to participate in profile rating system.

Work Delegation:
Current tech team consists of 1 backend dev, 1 frontend dev and 1 smart contract dev.

Funding Ask and Breakdown:
Funding will be used in the following manner:
Staff costs - ($10,800)
Team will comprise of

  • 1 Designer
  • 1 Data Scientist.
  • 1 UI/UX Frontend Developer
  • 1 Backend Developer
  • 1 Solidity Developer.

Development/Platform related costs - ($400)

We will be making use of the following development tools.

  • Moralis API
  • AWS services
  • MongoDB
  • Smart contract audits (at a later stage)

Marketing - ($800)

Marketing costs include :

  • Ad Testing Budget (Google/fb/twitter etc.)
  • Social media management tools
  • SEO and website optimisation
  • Email marketing tools
  • Design tool subscription

  1. Value Proposition to EPNS
    a. Smart Contract, staking, start and end will be announced through EPNS.
    b. Inshaan will have a chat service in future between admin, freelancer & clients, the proposal notification services will be powered by EPNS (Showrunner framework).
    c. In future, every update regarding smart contracts will be notified through EPNS.
    d. EPNS community members will get first update regarding dispute or Profile rating system to be able to participate and get award.
    e. Along with that, whenever we will be hosting events related to web3 space, EPNS would reserve a special slot to its name.
    f. We believe this grant will allow foster a long term relationship between Inshaan and EPNS to help out with any of your freelancing needs.
    g. We will also be heavily posting on our social channels (Discord, Twitter etc) spreading awareness of the protocol and any opportunities that shall open up.

  2. Funding Requested
    $12,000 (36,990) PUSH Tokens as per the current rate of PUSH which $0.324

  3. Milestones:
    PHASE 0 (IN PROGRESS TO BE COMPLETED BY JUNE 2022) (Funding Ask: 0 PUSH) :-MVP in progress with gig-aggregator, smart contract, Dashboard and dispute management which will be deployed on testnet and testing token faucet.

PHASE 1 (IN PROGRESS TO BE COMPLETED BY JULY 2022) (Funding Ask: $2000) :-First stable version launch on mainnet with all the feature in MVP.

PHASE 2 (IN PROGRESS TO BE COMPLETED BY AUGUST 2022) (Funding Ask: $2500):- Second Stable Version = Feature includes: Messaging, Proposal, Portfolio linking. and other than that

  • PR and Community Building.
  • Smart Contracts audit
  • DAO formation
  • Partner up with other communities.
  • Event organizing and rewards.

Phase 3 (FUTURE: AUGUST 2022 to DECEMBER 2022) (Funding Ask: $7500):- Third Stable Version = Feature includes Powerful Dashboard, Profile Rating system (Staking), Marketplace and Client side.

  • Make one free customer acquisition tool such as courses or market-rate charts for freelancer in different domain.
  • Host hackathons and other events/conferences etc for community members.
  • Creation of basic tests for freelancer to get verified to be able to participate in profile rating system.

Work Delegation:
Current tech team consists of 1 backend devs, 1 frontend dev and 1 smart contract dev.

Funding Ask and Breakdown:
Funding will be used in the following manner:

Staff costs - ($10,800)
Team will comprise of

  • 1 Designer
  • 1 Data Scientist.
  • 1 UI/UX Frontend Developer
  • 1 Backend Developer
  • 1 Solidity Developer.

Development/Platform related costs - ($400)

We will be making use of the following development tools.

  • Moralis API
  • AWS services
  • MongoDB
  • Smart contract audits (at a later stage)

Marketing - ($800)

Marketing costs include :

  • Ad Testing Budget (Google/FB/Twitter etc.)
  • Social media management tools
  • SEO and website optimization
  • Email marketing tools
  • Design tool subscription

  1. Wallet Address
    0xAA8dA4BA2f68e98438e87DDDF17d74Fa5980B9e9

  2. Relevant Links & Attachments
    Website: Inshaan - Platform for Freelancers (not connected to react at the moment)
    Github (Private as of now please send me a message to share access with authorized personnel) : mongo@inshaan[dot]com

  3. Referral:
    Ashish Pradhan from EPNS

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Good vision of the product will grow towards great heights in web 3.0

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Thank you Taps. WAGMI!!

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This is great. BUILDER community needs you! Anticipating great heights. All the best :smiley:

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Thank you buddy! WAGMI!

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Great vision, team!
All the best

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Great idea to motivate new freelancer into the limelight and i think this might also help the good talent to come on top very quickly. Great initiative

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Hi @backSpace007 great proposal there
I have a few Questions

  1. How does the staking system come to play here as in what incentives do users get when they stake their profiles and will they be incentivized in PUSH.
  2. You had mentioned the main motivation to build such a platform was high fees, what is your fee structure and how does it vary when compared to your competitors.
  3. What are your current monthly views on your social media and your website.
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Hey @backSpace007 We do an ama every Tuesday 2:30 AM UTC and Thursday at 5:30 PM UTC.
We would love to have you guys today or the next Tuesday.

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Hey @aswin ! Feels great to hear back from you.
Latest Update:
We have launched our Beta version (Phase 0) on test net as: One-Stop Platform for Freelancers & Gig-Aggregators:

  1. A universal gig search (gig-aggregator)
  2. Commission-free escrow smart contract
  3. Dashboard
  4. Project management page
  5. Decentralized dispute resolution

Check it out at:

https://inshaan.com/

To understand more about us, please visit.

https://inshaan.notion.site/inshaan/Inshaan-Docs-f5729d75832042b3a22d269dd54d889c

To answer your question

  1. Staking mechanism:
    Staking system consist of, New Freelancer (let’s call that user as candidate) and Community member (Let’s call that user as voter).

Role of Candidate:
Joins Platform>Link accounts and make portfolio> Participate in staking system > Gets ranked based on the staking metrics.
Reward :
a. Gets better ranking on the client side.
b. Gets rewarded in PUSH token upon completing certain number of contracts. (Like Uber reward system)

Role of Voter:
Join platform > Link accounts and make portfolio > Buys PUSH tokens to apply > Apply to become a voter > We personally have a meet and verify their background > Becomes a voter > Participates in staking system > Get rewarded based on the outcomes
Reward:
a. Gets rewarded in Inshaan tokens as per the amount staked.
b. Gets 10-20% of the last smart contract made by his/her staked candidate (We are still discussing this and not a final decision, would love to hear your opinion on it)
c. Gets rewarded in PUSH token upon finishing certain number of staking. (Like Uber reward system)

  1. We will be a SaaS platform instead of commission based platform. We are offering no commission escrow system, so we won’t be charging any commission in between the transaction instead according to our survey we got to know that people would pay a specific amount (Somewhere around $10-20 per month) instead of commission.
    Based on that, our charges would be $9 per month after the free trial of 3 months which could be paid in crypto including PUSH tokens.

Also, we are charging from recruiters a certain amount of fee in order to get them their preferred candidate and other services, you can find more about that here: https://inshaan.com/client.html

  1. We were not super active posting on social media as we were still in the developing stage, Here are some of the stats:
    Inshaan LinkedIn page 244 followers:
    Inshaan Page view = 824

Personal Linked In Stats:
Faiz: 3001 followers
Rahul: 2493 followers
Arijeet: 7356 followers

Discord members: 76
Inshaan Twitter : 10 followers

Personal Twitter stats:
Faiz:16
Rahul: 272
Arijeet : 161

We have recently updated our website, so we need to give some time to see that, but since we launched literally yesterday, and we have got around 50 new accounts.
Previously in December when we announced our project on LinkedIn:
Post impression exceeded 1.7k mark and webpage got 600 monthly visitors.

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Hey @aswin!
Sounds good to us, let’s do it today. I think it’s 11pm IST.

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my bad i meant 4:30 PM UTC so that will be 10 PM ist @backSpace007

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Yeah okay! That’s cool. @aswin
Could you let us know, what’s it about?

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its just a few questions from the team to get to know your proposal better.

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Hi @backSpace007 and Inshaan team!
As per discussed during office hours today. We’d like to have the following information more clearly specified before we move this to the next stage.

  • Explanation of PUSH rewards game theory and mechanics.

    • How and for how long will PUSH rewards be available
    • How much of the GRANT will need to go to supporting these rewards

  • Clearly define the use cases for notifications on each phase in the format of If This Then That

  • Elaborate more on:

    • Current number of platform users (unique users)
    • Expected number of users after each Phase (or at the end)
    • User acquisition plan to get to the estimated number of users mentioned above
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Thank you so much, @Jaf @aswin for giving us that opportunity to speak with the team before moving ahead. That feedback and comments meant a lot to us, here are your answers:

  1. Explanation of PUSH reward system:

    PUSH reward system will be designed in such a way that will motivate the user to either create more smart contracts or participate in staking based in the use case. Although Inshaan tokens will be used to stake, but we will have a PUSH reward system to encourage users coming from all over the internet.

    1. For freelancer to create more smart contract, we will have a monthly target amount. Like: you will be rewarded 50 PUSH tokens upon completing 5 smart contracts per month.
    2. For community member to participate more in staking, we will have a monthly target amount. Like: you will be rewarded 100 PUSH tokens upon staking on 10 portfolios.
    3. PUSH reward will be automatic and will be rewarded based on target. We are planning to continue rewarding PUSH token until the community members wants us to. Every quarter, we will have a company discussion and decide on the spot.
    4. $500 will be used from the grant, after that we will accommodate from our end.

  2. Use cases of notification: Notification will be integrated in the phase 3

    1. In Escrow smart contract between freelancer & client (Per milestone)
      To Understand the whole workflow of smart contract, please visit
      https://app.inshaan.com/myprojects
      https://app.inshaan.com/myprojectsclient
      https://inshaan.notion.site/inshaan/Inshaan-Docs-f5729d75832042b3a22d269dd54d889c

       1. (1st notification)Freelancer create smart contracts and sends it over to client. Now, when Client accepts the contracts, a Notification will pop up on client freelancer side.
 2. (2nd notification) When client funds the contract, a notification will pop up on freelancer side.
 3. (3rd notification) Freelancer will start the work, a notification will pop up on client side.
 4. (4th notification) Client checks the work and approve the work, a notification will pop up on freelancer side.
 5. (5th notification) Freelancer will release the funds from smart contracts and will transfer it to their own account, a notification will pop up on client side.
 6. (6th Notification) Freelancer close the project, a notification will pop up on client side.

    For each milestone in a contract, a total of 6 notifications will be needed and If we assume 2 milestones per project for 100 users per month, we are expecting to notify 1200 times in a month just in smart contract.

    1. In case of dispute, notification will pop up 5 times on each side based on the person initiating. To Understand the whole workflow of dispute resolution, please visit
      https://inshaan.notion.site/inshaan/Inshaan-Docs-f5729d75832042b3a22d269dd54d889c

       1. (1st notification) When either of the parties raise a dispute, the opposite party will be notified.
 2. (2nd notification) When both parties come to an agreement in between the 7 days cool down period, a notification will pop up on both the sides.
 3. (3rd notification) After 7 days of cooldown, if none of them has changed their decision and project is moving towards dispute. Three days of time will be given to them to submit their statement for raising dispute, a notification will pop up on both side to submit statement and document to get into dispute management system. 
 4. (4th notification) After 3 days, a notification will pop up on both side saying ht project will be listed in the community to vote in.
 5. (5th notification) Result notification.

    2. In Staking: The whole community will be notified whenever a new candidate will be added in staking system.

    3. In Staking: Whenever a community member stakes on a candidate, a candidate will be notified.

    4. In Staking: Whenever the candidate completes the number of smart contract as one particular community member has staked, that community member will be notified.

    5. In the future, we can also notify when ever a gig will be uploaded in the database as per one’s portfolio.

  3. Numbers:

    1. Current connected wallets: 21
    2. Expected number of user after
      1. Phase 1: 100
      2. Phase 2: 150
      3. Phase 3: 500
    3. User acquisition strategy includes:
      1. Partnering with recruiting firms to generate demands and supply talents from other network.
      2. Discord/LinkedIn/Twitter acquisition through personal network.
      3. Meetup, collaboration with community and skill training event.
      4. Distributing of free gigs on social media channels.
      5. Posting freelancing jobs on Internship, marketplace, and LinkedIn.
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Should this PGP proposal be advanced to a formal Snapshot vote?
  • YES
  • NO

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This PGP as met all requirements and will move to poll soon @backSpace007

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Hey @backSpace007
This proposal is now published on Snapshot - PGP-05: Inshaan + EPNS

Voting starts at: 25 July 2022 12.30 pm UTC
Voting ends at: 01 Aug 2022 12.30 pm UTC

NB: Before the voting starts, the team could challenge the proposal if there is any mismatch in the proposed items.

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Hey @miss_walter!
Thank you so much for this update. We were eagerly waiting for this moment. Happy to hear to the community members and discuss the error if any in our proposal. Would love to change it before the voting. Thanks again.