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Spect
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Project TL;DR
Spect is a highly customizable tool for DAO contributors to form circles (or sub-DAOs) that manage grants, bounties and tasks. On Spect, it is also possible to send kudos (soulbound tokens) to contributors and reward contributors on multiple EVM networks using any token. Contributors can even distribute retroactive rewards among each other in a decentralized and fair way.
Proposal Category
DAO tooling
Project Overview
Problem Statement
As DAOs scale to larger number of contributors, it is naturally becoming harder and harder to maintain a shared sense of context among all contributors. This has led to the formation of sub-DAOs and guilds. However, most of the current tooling to manage grants, bounties and tasks, distribute rewards and make decisions are built for monolithic DAOs instead of sub-DAOs. Moreover, these tools are point solution which means each tool serves a specific purpose. Therefore, with every addition of a new tool for a new use case, there is a loss of context among contributors.
About Spect
At Spect, our goal is to centralize context while at the same time decentralize decision making. To do this, we have built a tool for DAOs to form circles (or sub-DAOs) that manage grants, bounties and tasks. A tool that can also be used by contributors to fund each other and build their on-chain resume with soulbound tokens.
Our accomplishments till now
- On Spect, it is now possible to create circles N levels deep. This allows DAOs to easily modularize and scale by forming sub-DAOs and guilds with their own treasury, roles and integrations.
- It is possible to form highly customizable workflows on Spect. Each workflow gets their own filters and views! Views include Kanban, List, Gantt and Table.
- Customizable roles! On Spect, it is possible to give each role granular permissions for various actions such as distributing rewards, updating project settings etc. Roles can even be mapped from Discord and Guild.xyz!
- It is possible to reward contributors on Mainnet and multiple other EVM networks such as Polygon, Optimism, Arbitrum, Gnosis chain, Avalanche and BNB chain. Spect also supports payment using Gnosis safes!
- On-chain credentials! It is possible to give out non-transferrable soulbound tokens to contributors via Mintkudos directly from Spect.
- Retroactive bonuses! Contributors in a circle can use retroactive bonuses to distribute a budget and recognize each other’s work.
- Real-time collaboration in projects
- We’re live!
Early Partners
We’re working closely with early partners such as Biconomy DAO to help build out their grant management process. We’re also running an Early Citizen’s Program with partner DAOs.
Future Product Roadmap
- Ultimate customizations, that allow circles to create forms, tables, kanbans and lists with cards containing custom properties
- Roleplace, allowing contributors to easily discover roles within circles and go through onboarding workflows to get these roles.
- Automated workflows to reduce redendant, busy-work in circles
- One-click circles, for anyone to come in and spin up a new circle with a click from templatized workflows, automations and roles.
What else you should know about us
- We make weekly product updates on our discord server
- Our team comprises of three contributors
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Chakra (me) - I’m a co-founder of Spect and lead partnerships and growth in Spect. I’m a full-stack software engineer with experience in both web2 and web3 technologies. Currently, I am working full time on Spect. I’m also a member of other communities such as Developer DAO.
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Avp - A co-founder of Spect, leading product and technology. Full-stack software engineer with experience in both web2 and web3 technologies. Currently, also full-time on Spect and also a member of Developer DAO.
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Reshma - Leads the creative direction of Spect. Also, a full-stack software engineer with experience in both web2 and web3 technologies. Currently, part-time on Spect and also a member of Developer DAO.
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Value Proposition to Push Protocol
We believe this grant will be the start of a long term relationship between Push Protocol and Spect. Currently, there are two major value propositions to Push Protocol
- We are building tools to help DAOs form circles and improve internal workflows and attract more contributors through grants, bounties and well-defined roles and onboarding workflows. Spect can help Push Protocol create workflows and automate these workflows over time. Push Protocol contributors can even fund each other on Spect using Coordinape-style retroactive rewards.
- We are looking to add push notifications on Spect where Push Protocol naturally fits in quite well. Push Protocol is automatically exposed to more DAOs and DAO contributors through Spect.
Funding Requested
$10,000 (31300 PUSH as of 10/07)
Funding Breakdown and Milestones
At Spect, we’re focused on solving for use cases. This is why the following milestones contain information about the use case first and then some features needed to achieve them.
Milestone 1: Push Protocol creates a seamless grant management workflow
Currently, circles (sub-DAOs) can setup their grant management workflows on Spect. This allows circles to do the following.
- Add all the approved grantees in a kanban board or a table and make sure that there is always a bird’s eye view of all the approved grantees. Grantees can provide monthly updates here and also add other comments.
- Add all milestones in a normalized way for all grantees in a kanban board or a table. This can be used to track status of different milestones and pay grantees once a milestone is completed using native DAO tokens from a multi-sig.
- Form grantee circles and relate them to the parent circle (grantor’s circle, in this case Push). This allows grantees to form their circles and manage tasks related to the grants program
- Automate the grant application to grant management setup. We’ve recently integrated Questbook such that once a grant application is approved, the applicant and milestones are automatically added on the grant management circle.
In the near future, we want to enable the following for circles
- Standardized grant application form and response tracking on Spect.
- A place to have discourse about grant applications and vote on them
- Notification on the following
- When an application is submitted, notification is sent to stewards of the circle
- When an application is approved, notification is sent to the grantee
- When periodic updates are added, notification is sent to grant managers
- When a milestone is completed, notification is sent to grant managers
- When payment is disbursed, notification is sent to grantee
Funding Ask - 15650 PUSH
Expected Timeline - 2 months
Milestone 2: Push Protocol creates onboarding workflows to various circles within it
Currently, on Spect, the following is possible for new contributors to onboard to a circle.
- Circle can have roles that are mapped from Discord or Guild.xyz
- Each role has a granular set of permissions that allows a circle member to take several actions within the circle
- Contributors can claim these roles and become part of the circle. Upon claiming, they have permissions to take actions within the circle such as disburse payments, review tasks, manage circle settings etc
In the near future, we want to enable the following for circles
- Permissioned onboarding to circles using application forms, such that when an applicant applies for a role within a circle, the existing circle members can vote or vouch for the new applicant to join the circle
- Onboarding workflow containing bounties for skill-based roles. A circle can create a set of bounties which new contributors would need to successfully complete to be onboarded to a circle. These bounties could include development work, writing content summaries etc.
- Notification on the following
- When a new application is submitted, notification is sent to stewards of the circle
- When an applicant completes a bounty, notification is sent to reviewer of the bounty. When reviewer accepts submission or asks for revision, notification is sent to the applicant.
- When a new member is added to circle, other members in the circle are notified
Funding Ask - 15650 PUSH
Expected Timeline - 2 months
Please also note the following
- These use cases that we build for Push Protocol automatically are also available to other DAOs using Spect, thus leading to more exposure of Push Protocol itself through our notification system.
- The above milestones are in no particular order, ie, it may be the case that Milestone 2 is completed before Milestone 1. This is because both of these have common primitives and will be worked on parallely. Hence, the expected time added here (2 months) is a cumulative time containing both milestones.
Wallet Address
Multi-sig on Ethereum - 0xF1b05f78940D774Aabfb6fCAe1ec883d04036Ab7
Multi-sig on Polygon - 0xCE02ab993338c9a977e6f93fcFdB0e39090E0Df2
Referral
Jaf, Ops & BizDev @EPNS
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