Freelancing Platform Development
Short Description:
UniversalDot Foundation is building a decentralized freelancing application using Substrate.
A Minimum Viable Product of the application has already been built by completing a grant from WEB3 Foundation.
We request additional Treasury funds to continue the application's development and launch.
The current MVP application has already been deployed. To learn more, please navigate to our documentation or explore the demonstration videos.
We are requesting your comments to check if the community is currently interested in funding this development. Your feedback and comments are appreciated.
The full proposal can be read here.
Project Overview
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Comments (11)
Comments (11)
this proposal is just absolutely confusing mess leaving feeling that you might need to cook the idea couple years more on pressure cooker before going ahead and building it to succeed.
Questions:
1- It says you have a transaction-based business model where you charge users a small fee whilst interacting with the application. How will those fees be distributed?
2- Do you have an on-chain manifesto or is that your "Our Values" at https://universaldot.foundation, and if so, how long are you willing to commit to it?
3- How will you ensure that you will always be able to charge a smaller fee, particularly for certain profiles of individuals and organisations (e.g. disadvantaged)?
4- Are you going to charge an even smaller fee for certain profiles of individuals and organisations (e.g. disadvantaged)?
5- How is the UniversalDot freelancing platform going to promote migration liberalisation for less skilled workers to try to eliminate most absolute poverty?
6- Is UniversalDot freelancing platform only going to support nationalism, and create demand and supply for its freelance job market through partnerships, clients, and industries in Europe, and the US, which has the only citizens it cares about? Noting that in your Market Opportunity it only mentions Europe and the US.
7- How is the UniversalDot freelancing platform going to support global poor?
8- How UniversalDot freelancing platform going to create demand and supply for its freelance job market through partnerships, clients, and industries in countries with the highest poverty rates?
9- What quality control processes and requirements will UniversalDot freelancing platform establish for work through its freelancing platform?
10- What discounted insurance products will UniversalDot freelancing platform provide for users of its freelancing platform?
11- Who will UniversalDot freelancing platform provide free insurance to?
12- How will you ensure the machine learning (ML) or AI-based recommender systems to be used in the UDOT do not favour certain work seeking certain people through discriminate (i.e. discrimination based on profile attributes in your Data Model such as "location", "keywords", or lack of "portfolio", "reputation", "profile history", or "balance" due to being marginalized poor)?
13- How will you compensate users that receive delayed payments due to issues with the intelligent automation?
14- What is the steps and restrictions in the onboarding process? How will your decentralized identifiers (DID) liberalise the onboarding process to support global poor (e.g. waive fees)?
15- How will UniversalDot freelancing platform provide safe and legal pathways for the global poor overcome social control, so they may visit, live, and work where they want, by funding liberalised infrastructure (e.g. social housing construction) and providing medical support to help them overcome infections and diseases, instead of just helping wealthy governments tax them without actually building infrastructure for them?
16- How will UniversalDot freelancing platform limit the global poor from spending income they earn from the platform on drugs and alcohol?
17- How will UniversalDot freelancing platform disincentivise global poor from living rough (e.g. poor hygeine)?
18- How will UniversalDot freelancing platform restrict only risky or bad actors, rather than collective punishment against the global poor (e.g. fund decision deposit stakes claiming a person or entity will not break any rules and giving them certain rights to increase freedom of movement and security)?
19- Have you tried to integrate UniversalDot freelancing platform with other teams (e.g. parachains)? If so, please provide a list of those teams that you have reached out to and why, and the current status of the relationship?
20- How will you achieve cross-chain integration of your DID (e.g. DAOs deployed on InvArch Network or similar equivalent, and their intellectual property primitives)?
21- How will use of your Task pallet where users are either Initiators or Volunteers help support the global poor (e.g. if the vision and tasks involve helping the global poor then they receive certain extra tokens and reputation)?
22- If an Initiator or Volunteer using the Task pallet is living in global poverty will they receive higher token awards?
23- How will UniversalDot freelancing platform help the global poor fund registering their DAO?
24- In the UniversalDot Vision document, it says "organise that diversity into larger system that optimally supports the survival of the system" and "universe creates universal laws that apply to all". How will UniversalDot help to optimise the way the universe is organised by improving the Universal Declaration of Human Rights or making those rights also apply to the global poor, but so they can support the survival of a better system than the existing "larger system" that "forces" the "the way that society is currently organized"?
25- How will UniversalDot freelancing platform compete with or intervene and stop existing OpenGov organizations that have been corrupted with power they have accumulated at the cost of the larger ecosystem and individuals lower in the pyramid of power (e.g. where a fixed set of elites may try to strategically shut down competition or teams that seek to "structure" OpenGov and that may be perceived as threats to them without entertaining dynamism and cross-tribal bridging, by using their voting power to try to pass new laws to shut them down, in order to be able to continue expanding their power)? Is your "The Great Expansion" solution going to be enough?
26- When payments are affected by the upside in chaotic market how will you funnel those upsides into supporting common good funding programs for the global poor, to improve OpenGov, and other initiatives such as protecting Polkadot Ambassadors?
27- How will you protect the users that comprise the global poor from downside risk by providing top-ups or how will you cap or remove their exposure to losses?
28- How will UniversalDot freelancing platform focus on internationalism by uniting workers globally?
29- How will you impose market-based fees and fund dividends based on the profits of individuals and organisations that are highly profitable through use of the UniversalDot freelancing platform where they are serve as a rationing scheme where a proportion of it goes into a per-person dividend for users that comprise the global poor who have assets (e.g. real-world land assets or on-chain NFT assets) that are less than half the average amount owned by each user, which is their individual quota, so they could get that dividend reward through a combination of them actively participating and renting their excess quota of NFT entitlements such as priority access to people who own more, so they would net-benefit?
30- How else will you support degen communism?
31- Where is your project schedule and work breakdown structure (WBS) for the full period of your proposal?
32- What licensing will be applied to each Task?
33- Is UniversalDot unregistered DAO or a registered DAO?
34- Will UniversalDot be non-profit, for-profit, or both?
35- Equal employment opportunity - Request statement on how you support equal employment opportunity.
36- Subconsultants or Subcontractors - Request list of subconsultants or subcontracts that you intend to engage to achieve your milestones
37- Apprenticeships or Job Shadowing - Request statement on how you use apprenticeships or job shadowing initiatives (for example with Polkadot Ambassadors Program) to ensure you achieve their milestones
38- Proof of Source of Funds - Request statement on the source of the funds used in your Kusama "Address" and demonstrate proof of that source of funds
39- Worker's Compensation Insurance - Request copy of Worker's Compensation certificate
40- Public/Product Liability and Professional Indemnity insurance - Request copy of Public/Product Liability and Professional Indemnity insurance certificates
41- Mediation - Would you consider allocating an independent mediator that would intervene in the event of a dispute resolution process being required
42- Is an AMA going to be provided to allow the community to ask questions about your improvements?
43- What marketing strategy will you use to market UniversalDot?
44- What are your official social media accounts that you will use to promote UniversalDot?
45- Are there going to be any restrictions on what users will be allowed to use UniversalDot?
46- How will you educate and qualify users them before they can use UniversalDot?
47- What metrics will you use to evaluate the effectiveness of UniversalDot, how often will you publish them?
48- Why have you chosen to constrain the initial target market to areas such as mobile and web development, graphics and design, digital marketing, writing and translation, video and animation?
49- In future does UniversalDot intend to establishing one more more bounty programs that request treasury funding to use to create the supply that will fund freelance job markets? If so, how would you prevent your machine learning (ML) or AI-based recommender systems from breaches of conflicts of interest or being bias towards certain suppliers?
50- Do you intend to go through the NAY votes associated with this referenda and contacted the KSM holding voters that have an on-chain identity that voted ABSTAIN or NAY and use their contact details to find out why they voted that way to see how to improve UniversalDot and your UniversalDot proposal? If so, where would you publish that feedback so KSM holders may gain that insight?
51- What proportion of your team are already Polkadot Ambassadors? If not, why?
52- Is any goverment going to subsidise any of the transaction fees for their citizens that use UniversalDot to reduce the fees? If so, is the total of all subsidies going to be returned to the Kusama Treasury?
53- What technologies will you use to create NFT rewards, if any? If not, why?
54- What proportion of your audience have accessibility requirements (e.g. vision impaired that may require custom colour schemes https://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/sites/default/files/2022-06/Colorblind%20Safe%20Color%20Schemes.pdf, hearing impaired that may require sign language, etc), and how will you address their needs so they aren't excluded?
55- Could you provide a list of your assumptions, exclusions, and constraints
56- Could you prepare a risk register where you highlight various risks (e.g. global poor unable to sign up) and mitigation measures?
this proposal is just absolutely confusing mess leaving feeling that you might need to cook the idea couple years more on pressure cooker before going ahead and building it to succeed.
Questions:
1- It says you have a transaction-based business model where you charge users a small fee whilst interacting with the application. How will those fees be distributed?
2- Do you have an on-chain manifesto or is that your "Our Values" at https://universaldot.foundation, and if so, how long are you willing to commit to it?
3- How will you ensure that you will always be able to charge a smaller fee, particularly for certain profiles of individuals and organisations (e.g. disadvantaged)?
4- Are you going to charge an even smaller fee for certain profiles of individuals and organisations (e.g. disadvantaged)?
5- How is the UniversalDot freelancing platform going to promote migration liberalisation for less skilled workers to try to eliminate most absolute poverty?
6- Is UniversalDot freelancing platform only going to support nationalism, and create demand and supply for its freelance job market through partnerships, clients, and industries in Europe, and the US, which has the only citizens it cares about? Noting that in your Market Opportunity it only mentions Europe and the US.
7- How is the UniversalDot freelancing platform going to support global poor?
8- How UniversalDot freelancing platform going to create demand and supply for its freelance job market through partnerships, clients, and industries in countries with the highest poverty rates?
9- What quality control processes and requirements will UniversalDot freelancing platform establish for work through its freelancing platform?
10- What discounted insurance products will UniversalDot freelancing platform provide for users of its freelancing platform?
11- Who will UniversalDot freelancing platform provide free insurance to?
12- How will you ensure the machine learning (ML) or AI-based recommender systems to be used in the UDOT do not favour certain work seeking certain people through discriminate (i.e. discrimination based on profile attributes in your Data Model such as "location", "keywords", or lack of "portfolio", "reputation", "profile history", or "balance" due to being marginalized poor)?
13- How will you compensate users that receive delayed payments due to issues with the intelligent automation?
14- What is the steps and restrictions in the onboarding process? How will your decentralized identifiers (DID) liberalise the onboarding process to support global poor (e.g. waive fees)?
15- How will UniversalDot freelancing platform provide safe and legal pathways for the global poor overcome social control, so they may visit, live, and work where they want, by funding liberalised infrastructure (e.g. social housing construction) and providing medical support to help them overcome infections and diseases, instead of just helping wealthy governments tax them without actually building infrastructure for them?
16- How will UniversalDot freelancing platform limit the global poor from spending income they earn from the platform on drugs and alcohol?
17- How will UniversalDot freelancing platform disincentivise global poor from living rough (e.g. poor hygeine)?
18- How will UniversalDot freelancing platform restrict only risky or bad actors, rather than collective punishment against the global poor (e.g. fund decision deposit stakes claiming a person or entity will not break any rules and giving them certain rights to increase freedom of movement and security)?
19- Have you tried to integrate UniversalDot freelancing platform with other teams (e.g. parachains)? If so, please provide a list of those teams that you have reached out to and why, and the current status of the relationship?
20- How will you achieve cross-chain integration of your DID (e.g. DAOs deployed on InvArch Network or similar equivalent, and their intellectual property primitives)?
21- How will use of your Task pallet where users are either Initiators or Volunteers help support the global poor (e.g. if the vision and tasks involve helping the global poor then they receive certain extra tokens and reputation)?
22- If an Initiator or Volunteer using the Task pallet is living in global poverty will they receive higher token awards?
23- How will UniversalDot freelancing platform help the global poor fund registering their DAO?
24- In the UniversalDot Vision document, it says "organise that diversity into larger system that optimally supports the survival of the system" and "universe creates universal laws that apply to all". How will UniversalDot help to optimise the way the universe is organised by improving the Universal Declaration of Human Rights or making those rights also apply to the global poor, but so they can support the survival of a better system than the existing "larger system" that "forces" the "the way that society is currently organized"?
25- How will UniversalDot freelancing platform compete with or intervene and stop existing OpenGov organizations that have been corrupted with power they have accumulated at the cost of the larger ecosystem and individuals lower in the pyramid of power (e.g. where a fixed set of elites may try to strategically shut down competition or teams that seek to "structure" OpenGov and that may be perceived as threats to them without entertaining dynamism and cross-tribal bridging, by using their voting power to try to pass new laws to shut them down, in order to be able to continue expanding their power)? Is your "The Great Expansion" solution going to be enough?
26- When payments are affected by the upside in chaotic market how will you funnel those upsides into supporting common good funding programs for the global poor, to improve OpenGov, and other initiatives such as protecting Polkadot Ambassadors?
27- How will you protect the users that comprise the global poor from downside risk by providing top-ups or how will you cap or remove their exposure to losses?
28- How will UniversalDot freelancing platform focus on internationalism by uniting workers globally?
29- How will you impose market-based fees and fund dividends based on the profits of individuals and organisations that are highly profitable through use of the UniversalDot freelancing platform where they are serve as a rationing scheme where a proportion of it goes into a per-person dividend for users that comprise the global poor who have assets (e.g. real-world land assets or on-chain NFT assets) that are less than half the average amount owned by each user, which is their individual quota, so they could get that dividend reward through a combination of them actively participating and renting their excess quota of NFT entitlements such as priority access to people who own more, so they would net-benefit?
30- How else will you support degen communism?
31- Where is your project schedule and work breakdown structure (WBS) for the full period of your proposal?
32- What licensing will be applied to each Task?
33- Is UniversalDot unregistered DAO or a registered DAO?
34- Will UniversalDot be non-profit, for-profit, or both?
35- Equal employment opportunity - Request statement on how you support equal employment opportunity.
36- Subconsultants or Subcontractors - Request list of subconsultants or subcontracts that you intend to engage to achieve your milestones
37- Apprenticeships or Job Shadowing - Request statement on how you use apprenticeships or job shadowing initiatives (for example with Polkadot Ambassadors Program) to ensure you achieve their milestones
38- Proof of Source of Funds - Request statement on the source of the funds used in your Kusama "Address" and demonstrate proof of that source of funds
39- Worker's Compensation Insurance - Request copy of Worker's Compensation certificate
40- Public/Product Liability and Professional Indemnity insurance - Request copy of Public/Product Liability and Professional Indemnity insurance certificates
41- Mediation - Would you consider allocating an independent mediator that would intervene in the event of a dispute resolution process being required
42- Is an AMA going to be provided to allow the community to ask questions about your improvements?
43- What marketing strategy will you use to market UniversalDot?
44- What are your official social media accounts that you will use to promote UniversalDot?
45- Are there going to be any restrictions on what users will be allowed to use UniversalDot?
46- How will you educate and qualify users them before they can use UniversalDot?
47- What metrics will you use to evaluate the effectiveness of UniversalDot, how often will you publish them?
48- Why have you chosen to constrain the initial target market to areas such as mobile and web development, graphics and design, digital marketing, writing and translation, video and animation?
49- In future does UniversalDot intend to establishing one more more bounty programs that request treasury funding to use to create the supply that will fund freelance job markets? If so, how would you prevent your machine learning (ML) or AI-based recommender systems from breaches of conflicts of interest or being bias towards certain suppliers?
50- Do you intend to go through the NAY votes associated with this referenda and contacted the KSM holding voters that have an on-chain identity that voted ABSTAIN or NAY and use their contact details to find out why they voted that way to see how to improve UniversalDot and your UniversalDot proposal? If so, where would you publish that feedback so KSM holders may gain that insight?
51- What proportion of your team are already Polkadot Ambassadors? If not, why?
52- Is any goverment going to subsidise any of the transaction fees for their citizens that use UniversalDot to reduce the fees? If so, is the total of all subsidies going to be returned to the Kusama Treasury?
53- What technologies will you use to create NFT rewards, if any? If not, why?
54- What proportion of your audience have accessibility requirements (e.g. vision impaired that may require custom colour schemes https://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/sites/default/files/2022-06/Colorblind%20Safe%20Color%20Schemes.pdf, hearing impaired that may require sign language, etc), and how will you address their needs so they aren't excluded?
55- Could you provide a list of your assumptions, exclusions, and constraints
56- Could you prepare a risk register where you highlight various risks (e.g. global poor unable to sign up) and mitigation measures?