There is a hole in BCH.
Decentralization is both a blessing and a curse. I personally think it is wonderful to have so many different and diverse teams working on so many new and interesting things. However keeping tracking of who is building what and where has become very difficult. I am constantly surprised by new things mentioned by people that I had no idea even existed.
So many people are busy building things, but there has been a real and very tangible lack of communication and information sharing. At this stage in BCH's life, most teams are building with a skeleton crew. Some teams are perhaps only 1 person. It is forgivable that they do not take much time to do marketing or promotion. I sincerely hope that in the future teams building on BCH will get large enough that they can hire PR, marketing, social media management teams and the like. But at the moment for almost all projects, even the somewhat larger ones, that is simply not possible.
To that end I hope to be a big help in facilitating inter-team communication and also providing easy access to information and resources to the public as well.
I am currently in the process of developing a site called BUILD.CASH. I am not done laying the foundation yet. Given that some projects will need money to achieve their goals, I will have to let the cat out of the bag before I would prefer to do so.
BUILD.CASH is going to be at its more base level primarily a carefully updated and curated directory site of all BCH focused projects. A one stop shop to answer all the questions you may have about who is building what and how to contact them. However its secondary purpose and function will be to help those projects get funding in completely non custodial ways. BUILD.CASH will allow any BCH focused project post a QR code, CashID or standard address of their choice to receive donations directly to a wallet they manage. They will also be able to post their target amounts to achieve different goals. This is of course optional. Projects that do not want or require donations will still be listed and updated as frequently as possible.
BUILD.CASH would be an extremely valuable tool to help independant people, funds or companies decide what projects are worth funding and an easy place to research projects and see what roadblocks are preventing that killer app from being made. If BUILD.CASH has a chance to be built, tracking down the relevant people will no longer be a crap shoot or a chore. The pertinent information will be at your fingertips and as up to date as possible.
I am sure many of you have read about a project on reddit or twitter and then later struggled to remember its exact name. Cash.... Wallet... Bit.... Key... Something.
In that instance it would be quite convenient to look up the project by its type rather than its name. BUILD.CASH will allow you to do so.
Perhaps you are a whale and want to donate some money to a type of project that would directly help your business there by increasing the value of your own project and by extension BCH. BUILD.CASH will be the place to find projects that may help your business. Or perhaps you just want to give back to the community in a way that would benefit everyone. Perhaps you have found a developer who is making big waves in the space and would like to help them out, but don't want to ask them directly for a donation address. Notable devs will also have a page of their projects listed as well as contact info including donation addresses as well as their official accounts/handles.
I have been in contact with the people over at FLIPSTARTER and if all goes well I will also be integrating the FLIPSTARTER platform into BUILD.CASH however this will be a stretch goal as it complicates things quite a bit. Please keep in mind that BUILD.CASH’s primary function is going to be a directory of projects and people. The fund-raising part of it will be completely optional for projects and people and will of course be
NON-CUSTODIAL.
As far as the fund-raising aspect goes it will be visually similar to Kickstarter, a project can post levels that unlock.
The design and back end work will be done by well known BCH community members who have already given quotes for work needed to get the project up and running.
I will posting a much more detailed proposal soon. But in the mean time I wanted to put this out there so people have something in the back of their mind as an option as we move forward into somewhat uncharted waters. I have a feeling that things will be shaken up quite a bit in the near future and going forward I want to see the community get stronger and more robust and fully intend on helping that happen.
Let's Build It So They Will Come.
-CL
(Also, I really want to hear your feedback about my idea. So please comment bellow anything constructive you can think of, thanks.)
Nice article