YOLLOW.XYZ: Making Public Goods Funding Fun and Accessible
{"type": "project", "title": "YOLLOW.XYZ: Making Public Goods Funding Fun and Accessible", "website": "https://yollow.xyz", "createdAt": 1735630645644, "userGithub": "wtfsayo, plor", "credentials": {}, "description": "## Abstract\n\nYOLLOW.XYZ transforms public goods funding from a complex transaction into an engaging discovery and donation experience. The platform introduces two core innovations:\n\n1. **Single-Gesture Funding**: Transform multi-step donations into intuitive gestures (inspired by premier match-making Apps):\n    - Swipe right to donate $1\n    - Super-like to donate $5\n    - Swipe left to pass\n2. **Story-Driven Discovery**: Present projects through visually engaging cards that emphasize impact and learn from user interactions to create personalized discovery.\n\n## Motivation\n\nAllo Protocol needs alternative frontends that unlock its potential in new ways. YOLLOW brings consumer-grade UX innovations—specifically proven card-based interactions(used in matchmaking)—to public goods funding, making donations frictionless for web3 natives while creating an intuitive experience for users that come on-chain for first time.\n\n### Strategic Value for Gitcoin/Allo\n\n- Demonstrates Allo's potential as open infrastructure for on-chain consumer apps\n- Tests proven consumer-grade interfaces on web3 infrastructure\n- Drives protocol usage through mobile-first approach\n- Creates path to engaging mainstream donors through familiar interaction patterns\n- Validates Allo protocol's vision as flexible funding infrastructure\n\n\n## Benefits\n\n1. **Increased Accessibility**\n    - Lower barrier to entry for new donors\n    - Mobile-first approach reaches wider audience\n    - Simplified donation process increases conversion\n2. **Protocol Innovation**\n    - Demonstrates Allo's flexibility\n    - Pioneers new UX patterns for web3\n    - Creates reusable components for ecosystem\n3. **Ecosystem Growth**\n    - Attracts new donors to platform\n    - Increases overall donation volume\n    - Improves project discovery\n\n\n\n## Team Composition\n- **Plor-** Plor has fifteen years of experience as a developer, backed by a Master's degree in Computer Science. He holds certifications in agile methodologies and DevOps. Over the last few years, plor has been an active member of RaidGuild, contributing to collaborative tech initiatives. Throughout his career, he has leveraged his expertise to optimise software development processes, emphasising efficiency and innovation.\n\n- **Sayonara-**  Sayonara is a designer turned full-stack developer, hailing from India. He is specialised in user experience software development in Web3. His passion are decentralised finance (DeFi) applications, while he successfully driven development for a wide range of decentralised applications. As an active participant of RaidGuild, he currently focuses on stakeholder-driven development in the ever changing landscape of decentralised digital technologies.\n\n- **Anya Biarozka-** Anya is an experienced Art Director and UX/UI & Brand Designer with over 10 years in the industry. Over the past 4 years, she has specialized in Web3, contributing her expertise to projects such as Gitcoin, Acala Protocol, Tableland, Karpatkey, The Sphere DAO, and Deep Work Studio, among others. Recently, she contributed as an Art Director and Visual Designer to the *Gitcoin Onchain Capital Allocation Handbook*.\n\n\n**MVP Build Funding Proposal**\n\nWe would love to do a high velocity build ~9-12 Weeks targeting GG23 with following milestones\n\n1. **Milestone 1:** \n- Checkpoint at Week 4/5\n- Frontend app is able to load round specific project cards at yollow.xyz/round-specific-url\n- Project Cards are swipable\n- Tapping on specific project card shows relevant details (similar to tinder/bumble)\n- Demo Swipe Interactions are possible (No transactions yet)\n- Low Polished UI\n- Uses Regular `Connect Wallet` (recommended to used inside mobile wallet's browser)\n\n2. **Milestone 2**\n- Full Transaction Integration with Allo\n- Simple Dollar Right Swipe or Zero Dollar Left Swipe\n- Users are suggested to sign transaction in batch of $5/$10 multiple based on their appetite\n- They can checkout at any point with flexibility of editing amount per project\n- Post signing a transaction they can continue in discovery mode (no donation just like/bookmark)\n- Users are able to see past donations/bookmarks\n- More Polished and Prod Ready UI\n- Mobile Web First\n\n\n*Specifics to be changed as per discovery session proposed with Gitcoin/Allo team*\n\n## Total Cost: \n25000 USDC (misc between design, frontend, backend, QA)\n\n\n## Conclusion\n\nYOLLOW.XYZ aims to be an experiment in making blockchain invisible while making public goods funding more accessible and engaging through a consumer-centric approach. By building on Allo protocol, we can focus on innovation while leveraging proven infrastructure. This project has the potential to significantly increase participation in grant rounds and demonstrate the flexibility of Allo protocol as a foundation for diverse funding experiences.\n\nOur initial phase focuses on mobile web and Farcaster Frames-V2, with a clear roadmap for potential native mobile app development in Phase II, ensuring we can iterate and validate our core concept before expanding to additional platforms.", "projectGithub": "aux3xyz"}