Retroactive Funding for Polkadot Chain & Pallet Discovery
Dear Kusama community,
I am thrilled to introduce you to "Polkadot Discovery Portal" a comprehensive directory for Polkadot & Kusama ecosystem & all its actors.
"Polkadot Discovery Portal" was born out of one developer’s struggle with finding artifacts, binaries, docker images, and specs for the chains he wanted to test. Through the discussion with fellow community members, the idea grew and evolved into the project you see in front of you, intended as a comprehensive ecosystem discovery: to connect all the ecosystem actors, from big to small.
The Polkadot & Kusama ecosystem is not only about parachains and relay chains; it’s also about pallets, wallets, apps and Dapps, browser extensions, utility libraries, websites, etc. In one word this ecosystem is about community. Without good project discoverability, the community cannot find the information it needs.
Our aim is to make project discoverability seamless and simple. This way, everyone can access the information they need to contribute to the ecosystem's growth.
I open this discussion to propose a retroactive payment by Kusama Treasury to cover 60% of the "Polkadot Discovery Portal" development costs and gather feedback on this PoC so we can improve it further and prioritize the functionality that the community wants to see.
Please see the full proposal here https://kelp.notion.site/Retroactive-Funding-for-Polkadot-Chain-Pallet-Discovery-09c9c9adc77e4f22b7c7b36494f991c5 and, of course, check out the website https://polkadot-discovery.macula.link
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Comments (4)
Generally, I'm in favor of this idea and proposal as an experiment. I'm concerned that this project may fall victim to the fate of other projects with low or no adoption. What are your plans for adoption, how do you see your website being adopted by the community, and more importantly, what are you going to do to make that happen? Thanks
Thank you for the feedback. That's a fair point, getting initial traction is usually challenging. That's why we plan to have a coordinated effort onboarding the early projects until we reach a "minimal critical mass". Then, once Dotsama Info has enough data, is in every team's interest to be included so their information can be easily discoverable and their data can "flow" further:
Then when it comes to updating the data, the teams can either do it themselves or crowdsource it to their community with incentives. Once we have the tipping functionality by Anagolay rolled out, it all be as simple as shown here chart 2
Following the feedback we got from the Parity team and fellow community members, we made a decision to name the project "Polkadot Discovery Portal" instead of the initially proposed "Dotsama.info" as it goes in alignment with clear branding of the Plolkadot and ecosystem. We changed the title of this proposal accordingly and made the respective changes to the Portal itself.
Currently, "Polkadot Discovery Portal" is hosted on our IPFS-based hosting platform https://polkadot-discovery.macula.link/. Once we reach a consensus about the new domain, we'll move to the new address.
We are grateful for your comments and support and welcome any further questions you may have.