Polkadot Live: Proposal for funding community driven development to initial release.

Hello community!

We are posting this proposal to move Polkadot Live development into the community and aim to get funding for 1 full-time senior software engineer for a 12 month period.

Overview

Ross Bulat (Parity Technologies) demoed a new blockchain user experience at Polkadot Decoded 2023, showing how Polkadot interaction can happen on the desktop.

The app, named Polkadot Live, is centred around 2 key fundamentals:

Notifications that are delivered directly to the user, as they happen, in a decentralised manner (node RPC & light client driven), The ability to quickly respond to those notifications, by submitting extrinsics, directly on the desktop. These “quick actions” should be complementary to existing dapps, and not act as replacements.
Readers of this document are encouraged to watch the entire presentation for the rationale of the product, the problems it solves, what has been achieved thus far with the prototype demoed, and the general roadmap of the app.

This proposal in an effort to secure funding to onboard one full-time senior developer to contribute to the Polkadot Live product and bring it to an initial release. This full time developer will report directly to Ross, who leads and oversees the direction of the app.

This will primarily be an engineering effort, but promotion / marketing efforts will also be explored when the product is ready for a beta release, in order to receive feedback from the community and shape the product to community expectations.

Proposal Details:

Proposal Start Date: 27th September 2023

Proposal Submitted By: Joel Kenny, JKRB Investments / Website / LinkedIn

Advisor, Technical Direction: Ross Bulat, Parity Technologies

Requested Funds: 24,937 DOT ($100k @ $4.01 / 1 DOT)

Planned Fund Allocation:

15% / $15,000: to JKRB Investments (manager of contractual agreement(s), onboarding of software engineer, milestones and project management oversight). Paid in bulk upon successful proposal approval, with immediate commencement of works.
80% / $80,000: 12-month allocation of monthly salary for 1 full-time senior software engineer. $6,666 / monthly salary, $50 per hour / 6 hour days.
5%: Contingencies, unforeseen expenses. To be held in DOT until if / when contingency expenses come about.

Deliverables:

Initial release of Polkadot Live app, for macOS and Windows.
Open sourcing of Polkadot Live codebase on Github.

Full Proposal Document: Google Doc

Pre-Proposal Discussion with Feedback: Polkassemby Link

Hello there! We have a new idea to share with you. We want to make a program called Polkadot Live that will help people use a special kind of computer network called blockchain on their computers. This program will let people get messages and do things right from their computer without needing to go on the internet.

A man named Ross showed how this could work at a big meeting in 2023. We want to get money to hire a very good computer programmer to help make this program a reality. This person will work with Ross to make the program better and better.

We are asking for 24,937 DOT (which is like money) to make this happen. We will use the money to pay the person we hire and to help manage the project. We also want to share the computer code for Polkadot Live with everyone on the internet so they can use it too.

We hope to start this project on September 27, 2023. If you want to learn more, you can read our full plan on a website called Google Doc. We also talked about this idea with other people and you can see what they said on a website called Polkassemby.