Another Season of Dapp is here! The Dapp is here to focus on building, promoting and managing the overall success of the giveth.io Donation Application. Our primary focus is Donors and Projects and making sure they have great experiences interacting with Giveth.
The Dapp WG is heavily involved in many general aspects of Giveth such as website maintenance, marketing, communications, community building, user/donor/project support, platform moderation, and feature building.
You can check out our previous Season proposal here.
S2 Review
Core Metrics
Metric | Target | Actual |
---|---|---|
Season Total Donation Volume | $70,000 | $281,509.69 |
Season Total New Verified Projects | 70 | 55 |
We blew past our goal of Total Donation Volume goal by 402%! This was mostly thanks to the Polygon QF Round which brought in $203,000 in donations during the round ($160,000 eligible for matching).
Outside of QF eligible donations made during the Polygon, MetaPool and part of the Giving Season QF rounds the Dapp brought in $64,585.20 of donations (as of March 18).
Sadly we did not meet our target of on-boarding 70 verified projects (at time of posting), we will be improving our Community efforts in this coming Season by bringing in more Community focused contributors.
Deliverables
Deliverable | Status | Description |
---|---|---|
Complete Superfluid Integration | FAILED | Superfluid is still in development, reaching the final stages with QA starting now. Expecting release by the end of the month. |
Complete Solana Integration | DONE! | Solana Integration was completed end of January |
Begin email service migration | DONE! | Email Service migration was completed last week of February, working through some post MVP issues to improve the service, thanks to hard work by @ramramez |
Specification & development of paid partnerships/grants eligible integrations or features | DONE! | We delivered the Arbitrum Integration in record time! |
Hire a Marketing Expert | DONE! | We hired two Marketing focused contributors, Kareem & Denitsa into the Giveth Galaxy |
Host Community call/Townhall events | DONE! | Hosted 3 townhall using the new format & templates provided by @WhyldWanderer ! |
Simplified Meet the Maker Interviews & content creation | PARTIAL COMPLETION | No new content of project interviews were created during the last season, but we did publish 5 interviews on Twitter this season that were captured previously. |
User Support for Donors and Project Owners via Discord and Telegram | DONE! | Giantkin introduced a ticketing system making user support much easier to manage. Devs, PMs & project support team all chip-in to provide user support. |
Communications of Giveth updates & community events via Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn & Instagram | DONE! | @OyeAlmond & @missgene always providing updates across all channels, now also on Farcaster! |
Outreach Campaign to onboard projects to Giveth | PARTIAL COMPLETION | @NikolaCreatrix took the initiative to onboard Gitcoin projects to Giveth using several strategies, we onboarded a few projects as a result of her efforts. However the Campaign aspect was not well defined and not very successful. |
Giveth Monthly Newsletter Emails | DONE! | @anamarija09 prepares monthly newsletter with support from @aabugosh & the comms team |
Monthly X spaces (3 for the Season) to provide external Giveth updates & spotlights for industry professionals. | PARTIAL COMPLETION | Two X spaces completed, but with ETH Denver happening during the end of Feb we lost the opportunity to do one each month and doing them more than once a month is too frequent. |
Monitor services, servers & security of the Dapp and resolve incidents | DONE! | Huge upgrades to our monitoring and site reliability with focused work from all corners of the Development & DevOps team. |
Moderation & non-user support in Discord & Telegram | PARTIAL COMPLETION | We haven’t done much with Telegram, the channels have all been turned off, save the announcements channel, needs a dedicated community person. Discord support & moderation always top game thanks to @Giantkin , @WhyldWanderer & @NikolaCreatrix |
Project verification & listing | DONE! | @WhyldWanderer & @NikolaCreatrix are steadfast project reviewers, also onboarding @anamarija09 to help lighten the load. |
Spending
Breakdown | Estimated S2 Cost | Actual Cost |
---|---|---|
Comms, Community & Marketing | $47,550 | $38,995 |
Design | $12,550 | $16,953 |
Development + DevOps | $68,150 | $112,329 |
Product | $18,550 | $18,210 |
Services | $3,400 | $7,223.94 |
Total | $150,200 | $193,710.94 |
Some notable spending:
Comms, Community & Marketing was 17% LESS than the projected budget, this was due to our marketing hires only coming through halfway through the Season.
Design was 35% OVER from 2 factors
- Superfluid design needed more revisions.
- Taking on the Project Quality Improvements features based on feedback from Project Review team.
Development & DevOps was 39% OVER from these unexpected factors:
- Needed to overhaul donation verification and overall dapp stability.
- Arbitrum Integration happened.
- Superfluid is a much bigger feature than estimated.
Product spending was pretty much on target.
Our spending on Services was 212% OVER the projected budget, this was due to many services, software & subscriptions we have been paying for not properly audited and thus not captured in the previous Season’s estimations.
Season 3 Deliverables & Budget
There are 3 possible scopes that DAO Ops can take in the coming Season, each with different deliverables and budget. The Season Snapshot vote will dictate the scope of this working group, depending on it’s signaled priority amongst other working groups, as decided by the Giveth DAO.
GROW
What we will do
Deliverables
Feature Development
- Build new Referral Program
- Endaoment Integration
- Project Attestation System - Decentralizing Verification
- Specification & development of paid partnerships/grants eligible integrations or features
Comms, Marketing & Community Building
- GIVnews monthly newsletters
- Implement new Email strategies for user journeys in Ortto
- Meet the Makers project interviews, published to social media channels
- Launch another Ambassador Program season
- Hire a Community Builder Lead
- Communications of Giveth updates & community events via Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn & Instagram
- Host Townhalls monthly
- 3 more Twitter/X space GIVtalks with guests speakers
- Giveth Impact Report publications
Ops
- Monitor services, servers & security of the Dapp and resolve incidents
- Moderation & non-user support in Discord
- Project verification & listing
Core Metrics
Donation Volume: $150,000
New Verified Projects: 50
Additional Metrics
- Increase number of new user donations by 10% per month
- Increase donations from emails to over 20 per month
- Increase donations from search engines to over 100 per month
- Season total new donors donation volume: $15,000
Breakdown | Estimated S3 Cost |
---|---|
Comms, Marketing & Community | $48210 |
Development & DevOps | $125,700 |
Product | $24,512 |
Design | $11,810 |
Services | $7,734.99 |
Total | $217,966.99 |
SUSTAIN
What we will do
Feature Development
- Endaoment Integration
- Project Attestation System - Decentralizing Verification
- Specification & development of paid partnerships/grants eligible integrations or features
Comms, Marketing & Community Building
- GIVnews monthly newsletters
- Implement new Email strategies for user journeys in Ortto
- Meet the Makers project interviews, published to social media channels
- Hire a Community Builder Lead
- Review & Improvement of SEO
- Communications of Giveth updates & community events via Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn & Instagram
- Host Townhalls monthly
- 3 more Twitter/X space GIVtalks with guests speakers
- Giveth Impact Report publications
Ops
- Monitor services, servers & security of the Dapp and resolve incidents
- Moderation & non-user support in Discord
- Project verification & listing
What we won’t do
- Launch another Ambassador Program season
- Build new Referral Program
Core Metrics
Donation Volume: $100,000
New Verified Projects: 30
Additional Metrics
- Increase number of new user donations by 10% per month
- Increase donations from emails to over 20 per month
- Increase donations from search engines to over 100 per month
- Season total new donors donation volume: $10,000
Breakdown | Estimated S3 Cost |
---|---|
Comms, Marketing & Community | $40,400 |
Development & DevOps | $106,920 |
Product | $15780 |
Design | $9000 |
Services | $7,734.99 |
Total | $179,834.99 |
SHRINK
What we will do
Feature Development
- Specification & development of paid partnerships/grants eligible integrations or features
Comms, Marketing & Community Building
- GIVnews monthly newsletters
- Implement new Email strategies for user journeys in Ortto
- Communications of Giveth updates & community events via Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn & Instagram
- Host Townhalls monthly
Ops
- Monitor services, servers & security of the Dapp and resolve incidents
- Moderation & non-user support in Discord
- Project verification & listing
What we won’t do
- Giveth Impact Report publications
- Review & Improvement of SEO
- 3 more Twitter/X space GIVtalks with guests speakers
- Meet the Makers project interviews, published to social media channels
- Hire a Community Builder Lead
- Project Attestation System - Decentralizing Verification
- Endaoment Integration
- Launch another Ambassador Program season
- Build new Referral Program
Core Metrics
Donation Volume: $50,000
New Verified Projects: 20
Additional Metrics
- Increase number of new user donations by 5% per month
- Increase donations from emails to over 15 per month
- Increase donations from search engines to over 20 per month
- Season total new donors donation volume: $5,000
Breakdown | Estimated S3 Cost |
---|---|
Comms, Marketing & Community | $37,880 |
Development & DevOps | $66,000 |
Product | $12,520 |
Design | $3,500 |
Services | $7,734.99 |
Total | $127,634.99 |
Next Steps
This proposal will remain for advice process until all other eligible Working Groups have posted their Working Group Proposals and minimum advice process (5 days) has been met for them.
A single Snapshot vote will be created to decide the final priorities and budgets for all Working Groups for Season 3. Keep an eye out for it!
Thank you
@MoeNick @karmaticacid @Griff @MoeShehab @geleeroyale @Nicolas @NikolaCreatrix @WhyldWanderer @Giantkin @anamarija09 @aabugosh @OyeAlmond @missgene @amin @Kratijain @Cherik @ramramez @renjer @cquinterom096 @mateodaza @alireza7612 @maryam.jafarymehr @Tossynee @msaeedi @rodri_castillo @Stee @JakeS @marthendalnunes
for all your hard work during Dapp Season 2!