Bit re-org in KodaDot

[yangwao]

Hello, I've been quite long missing in action despite being long-term exhausted. Due to stuff like conference travel, which put dent on our dynamic & progress, I feel we should introduce some changes as seems some things did not work as anticipated. Let's briefly go through them

Achievements

• We made progress regarding Basilisk integration and first testing phase
• Won Polkadot North America hackathon for Moonsama (EVM) integration, thanks to all contributors who made this real.
• Participation events like BlockSplit, where we won prizes and ETHPrague, where we were among the final participants.
• Making Dotsama Prague conference real, having one hundred people attend in person for three weeks organization prior.
• Having distributed a lot of our t-shirts on Polkadot Decoded in Berlin with unique design.
• Feel free to add if you recall something, and it should be included here

What's on the market

• the macro downside on markets is an incoming recession end of 2022 or early 2023
• we should be somehow financial savvy with the runway to raise the odds of survival in the market conditions
• a bear market with current market temporary relief, which might or not result in a short bull run
• little market share of KodaDot in Dotsama ecosystem
• if we survive, we will thrive.
• competitive NFT marketplaces -- competition is getting dense at this stage
• hyperstructures, [1]

Changes

Lowering bounty rewards for external contributors in half ✅

• With currently incoming more members on the board in terms of developers, we would like to chill out bounty development, as it was, in my eyes successful experiment.
• Seems it introduced quite a bit of chaos which isn't inherently good, and we wasted a bit more resources as we've repeatedly been breaking the same components with bad & poor quality code and shallow reviews (some of them have actually been really great to pinpoint few defects), missing tests, and non-diligent testing. It's actually complex, and software development is hard, but we can hold on to some efforts and recalibrate and change what we can do better in an active manner.
• We will return higher bounties once - we will pass our Treasury Proposal to fund our development as a public good, raise another series of funds to fuel our development or gain steep traction of KodaDot. If any of these events happen, we could potentially return to our previous state.
• It's not freezing, just a slow-down tempo
• Despite lower bounties, your contributions will still count in terms of being part of an internal team
• Changes in bounty labels are as follows

$USD	old	new
$	50-100	<50
$$	150-300	51-150
$$$	300-450	151-300

Internal changes

• I really know that currently, we have amazing people on board helping with community coordination, ambassador program and marketing efforts.
• Despite all of that, I sense we still don't have sufficient push on social media, and we would need to cut some of these efforts to save a buck

Maybe the reason is that as KodaDot

• we are missing a minimalistic new (re)design (which is coming along, and it's in the works, check Redesign Landing page #3844 )
• steady and working product without bugs
  • this is much better since help of qa-guild & working tests at some portion of app
• more supported chains live (Basilisk should roll out soon Multi currency implementation for Basilisk on Rococo in KodaDot #3784, MoonBeam/MoonRiver afterwards)
• community marketplace around a particular fandom

Actions

• I will be reaching internal team for 1:1
  • to discuss future options per person
  • where we can improve
  • what we can push further
  • what we should change
• we will need to chill out and take some intense retreat, to do nothing.

What kind of work is ahead

• Currently, we are actively working on pivoting our KodaDot into neo-brutalism design, which will feel much more complete design as currently, we have running prototyping sessions daily on design with Exez
• Refactoring particular components as we had a lot of copypasta components, more I've expanded here Refactoring components and redesign #3710
• Onboard more Artists & Creators
  • from Dotsama ecosystem
  • from another ecosystem as Dotsama is sub-10k users (really tiny&niche comparable to other ecosystems)
• Systematic growth and steady engagement
• Implementing other parachains NFT standards out there
• Applying for Kusama Treasury funding to pro-long our runway
• Get KodaDot into its own interesting niche, like Generative (on-chain) Art
• Attracting creators outside Dotsama ecosystem to come and mint
• Other???