Stadium Gates: Immutable Type MVP Resources
Review product requirements and refer technical minds
Stadium Gates Issue #3
Welcome back to Stadium Gates!
Project Focus: Immutable Type
This post notes the product features of the project to create an MPV of Immutable Type. As per the previous post, we’re going to add a lot of new energy to the media industry on behalf of the communities served.
The MVP of Immutable Type will include a thin slice of working features to demonstrate the concept for users. The full project scope is significant and will require powerful resources and years of effort to build, but the earliest demonstration of the concept will be extremely lean by design.
This summary serves as an invitation for development teams and individuals to reach out and offer their input or support to develop this product. Please DM me if you are able to refer developers or join a team to participate. @stadium_gates
Note: The L1 and L2 solutions, as well as file storage, will be decided as part of the scope for the MVP. I believe a critical expectation of the user will be some form of low-cost payment and minting fee experience. Gas fees are a major concern for usability and adoption. I welcome insights here.
MVP Summary:
We will use a localized website to serve local news feeds from traditional media. This web view will not be gated and will be available to anyone who wishes to visit the website. We have built a POC website that is operational and available to view here:
On this POC website, we will provide users the option to access gated content by connecting to an app using a crypto wallet. We will feature Metamask for the MVP. Users may be classified as “end users” or “author users”. Their feature access will depend on the class of the user as determined by the contents of their wallet. We will use two types of test NFTs to determine user class.
End users who successfully connect their wallets will gain access to Immutable Type articles as published by author users. The website will display article summaries within the app. The end-user will be able to view the entire article upon click of the CTA.
The articles will be served from a decentralized file storage system. Author users will submit their work via a form field and execute a smart contract to mint the article. The work will be stored in the decentralized storage system.
Users may “tip” the writer from their wallets. [Feature may be dropped from the MVP if the estimations prove prohibitive.]
MVP Feature Requirements:
The ability for an author to connect to an app with a compatible Web3 wallet to access an interface with a form field.
The ability for an author to submit the article via a form field.
A process for the submitted article to be minted via a smart contract.
A process to commit the article file to be hosted in a decentralized file storage system.
Create a localized website to publish traditional local news feeds [POC complete].
End-user ability to connect compatible Web3 wallets to access minted articles.
End-user app to display and view author’s minted files upon click of a CTA served within the POC localized website.
A simple method to “tip” the author.
With the above, I’m looking for members of Stadium Gates to assist with referring talent to add meaningfully to the following:
Graphic design [digital media and test NFT artwork]
UI designer
Product documentation
Input for critical technology decisions
Developers to execute upon critical technology once decided
Establish the estimation of work for MVP
User testing participants
Once we have a small team in place and estimation has been completed, we’ll crowdsource funding or award community tokens as bounties for participation.
Please reach out directly with any questions. I’m going to begin revisiting developers with whom I’ve discussed this project, while we source additional candidates.
Thank you for reading.
I’m looking forward to the unknown and ambitious.