diff --git a/proposals/nftschool.md b/proposals/nftschool.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..9375e157 --- /dev/null +++ b/proposals/nftschool.md @@ -0,0 +1,142 @@ +# NFT school + +Authors: @atopal + +Initial PR: TBD + + + + + +## Purpose & impact +#### Background & intent +_Describe the desired state of the world after this project? Why does that matter?_ +* The NFT space is exploding, people are defining a bunch of practices in the wild, and we want to make sure they encode best practices for addressing and persistence to ensure NFT data is protected +* We intend this to be a one stop shop for any developer interested in the NFT space. That includes learning about concepts, and hands on tutorials guides. A cross between a docs site and a marketing site + + +#### Assumptions & hypotheses +_What must be true for this project to matter?_ +* Most people who’ll be active in the NFT space haven’t joined it yet, so there will be a lot of people who need to be convinced that they should care about how NFTs are addressed and stored +* Most people in this space are not aware of best practices when it comes to addressing, storing, metadata, minting etc. + +#### User workflow example +_How would a developer or user use this new capability?_ +* Googling "nft metadata" and similar keywords bring devs to this website +* developers use resources to learn about metadata +* developers use resources to build their own applications + +#### Impact +_How would this directly contribute to web3 dev stack product-market fit?_ +NFT content addressing is a perfect use case for IPFS, establishing it as the default will make it easier to transition to persistence with Filecoin, effectively utilizing the PL stack. + + + +#### Internal leverage +_How much would nailing this project improve our knowledge and ability to execute future projects?_ +This has the potential to massively increase the community using and experimenting with our stack. + + + +#### Confidence +_How sure are we that this impact would be realized? Label from [this scale](https://medium.com/@nimay/inside-product-introduction-to-feature-priority-using-ice-impact-confidence-ease-and-gist-5180434e5b15)_. +Confidence: 7 + +While the content part of this is fairly straightforward, getting people to the site is not. It will take a significant amount of work in generating enough backlinks for this site to rank in search results, at which point it can become self-sustaining. + +## Project definition +#### Brief plan of attack + + +* Agree on mvp content +* Get started on content +* In parallel design and set up website +* Launch with mvp +* Keep adding content regularly + + +#### What does done look like? +_What specific deliverables should completed to consider this project done?_ +The initial milestone is to have a set of documents online that cover the basics, backed up by partners. We’d then need to agree on follow up milestones. As a product this would be an ongoing concern. + + +#### What does success look like? +_Success means impact. How will we know we did the right thing?_ + + + +* Lagging indicator: + * Ultimately, success is developers choosing to use IPFS for content addressing and Filecoin for storage for all of their NFTs +* Leading indicator: + * Developers linking to this from stack overflow +* Significant traffic + + +#### Counterpoints & pre-mortem +_Why might this project be lower impact than expected? How could this project fail to complete, or fail to be successful?_ +For this to work developers need to actually land on the site either through googling or via backlinks. +Developers need to believe that this is an unbiased source of actual best practices +Maintaining an active site like this requires a long term commitment. If we can’t sustain regular new content, it can appear abandoned quickly. + + + +#### Alternatives +_How might this project’s intent be realized in other ways (other than this project proposal)? What other potential solutions can address the same need?_ +* We could add the content to protoschool. That way we could focus on the content primarily. +* We could publish the content in a series of blog posts +* We could include the content into the current IPFS and Filecoin docs + +The downside of all of those alternatives is their close connection to PL, making it potentially harder to come across as unbiased, but also the dilution of focus. + + +#### Dependencies/prerequisites + +* Content +* Design +* Some of the standards might not exist yet (metadata schema) + + +#### Future opportunities + +There is an opportunity to turn this into a community co-owned space in the medium to long term. NFT hackathons in particular create a lot of opportunity for new tutorials that we can showcase on this site. +As we create new tools in this space, this site can be leveraged to generate interest and traffic. + + +## Required resources + +#### Effort estimate +medium + + +#### Roles / skills needed + +* PM +* technical writer +* web dev +* design