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@jakepeg I love the idea of this app. This is not an official review, but just some initial comments. I’m not sure how much ability you have to adjust things now that it is in the system, bu perhaps the feedback will be helpful.
You want to do a lot! And $5k doesn’t go very far. Maybe you wrote this as a 25k grant initially? Scale it back. Get the IC in the hands of kids! What an awesome thing to do. I think your first couple goals are achievable on a $5k grant. Get the app kidified and then get it into the hands of some kids and capture data on there use. With success, report that back to DFINITY and go for a bigger grant.
My kids use ipads and get sucked in by all kinds of apps. I know you have grand plans of adding the task completion, but you can probably go to market without these feature and just give kids tokens and nfts. and see what the take up is.
I’d love to see you scale this back a bit end with success rather than being stressed if the money will go far enough.
thanks @skilesare, it’s great to get some feedback and to hear that you like the idea.
A lot of the heavy lifting is done on the frontend, which I’m not too phased about, as that’s my background. I’m doing initial work and research now to work out the backend technicalities so I can hit the ground running if I get the grant.
As far as I understand it, after the initial review, applications get to go through a milestone refinement process, and at that point I hope to be able to discuss with Dfinity about expectations, but I’m keen to get the features added, and would be happy to add more time onto the project timeline if necessary.
The NFTs to grant access to the premium features are currently being minted, should be ready for tomorrow. If you’d like to become an early adopter with your kids, message me your ICP wallet address and I’ll send some NFTs to you…
In your own words why does this make sense in a blockchain context vs anything else.
I think all things should be on chain eventually but there are hurdles and complexities to deal with blockchain/ICP
If NFTs are in your answer, specifically why NFTs vs just having a database indicating who has access
The main feature of the app is basically a ledger of points and transactions, so it’s well suited to blockchain in that sense.
I feel that when dealing with children’s data, data ownership is important so the decentralization capabilities of web3 is a great use case for it.
The app doesn’t use “real” crypto tokens, DooCoins value is decided by the parents, but the app resembles a banking app and a crypto wallet, with familiar fintech features, like the transaction screen, wallet, assets, goal setting etc. The aim of this is to teach basic financial literacy. The expectation is that crypto will become more mainstream, so including crypto education will be useful for future generations.
The idea of the NFTs is as a way of monetizing the app, using a freemium model, where NFT ownership grants access to premium features. A planned feature is create a dynamic nft in order to gamify task completion, where the nft evolves as the child completes tasks.
I’m coming into this review process a bit late; just waiting on some answers about the evaluation rubric.
I just wanted to let you know that as a parent myself I think this is a great idea. I literally just had a discussion with my wife and kids about setting up something like this. So you’ll have a new user here soon :).
I would like to know what your strategy is for protecting sensitive user information. I could easily see this becoming a concern as your product grows and you add more features.
That’s great that you like the idea and are interested in using the app.
It’s a good point, re data protection. At the moment the child firstname or nickname is stored, which corresponds to the parents PID, the child ID is made up of the parents PID+#1 for the first added child, PID+#2 etc. Then each child has a list of tasks and rewards. I’m weighing up whether or not remove the child name from the backend and use local storage. It would mean having to set the name on each device.
I intend on having the code audited before the marketing phase. I know this is a service that Code and State offer. This will be required with every major update.
To provide transparency to users, there is a privacy policy, which will be kept up to date - DooCoins Kids Rewards System - Privacy Policy and the new notifications screen can be used to inform users of any updates.
Happy to say that my grant application has been approved. Thanks for the feedback, comments and reviews. I’m looking forward to getting stuck in and building out these new features
Add 2nd frontend canister, with copy of parent frontend
Write magicCode, checkMagicCode and burnCode methods
Issues:
Checking NFT ownership as a way to grant access to premium features more complex than expected.
Listing Dooza NFTs on DAB is taking longer than expected.
To verify NFT ownership, parents must input their wallet’s Principal ID instead of the Internet Identity Principal ID they use to log in to DooCoins. Which is clunky UX
Relying solely on NFT ownership to unlock premium features would exclude users who are not familiar with web3 technologies. Want to avoid alienating non-web3 users and instead view DooCoins as a platform to introduce them to the web3 world.
With the above in mind, I will take a step back and reevaluate how to monetise premium features. This part of the project, which is just one method (hasNFT) will be put on the back-burner for the moment. Any ideas on this welcome…
