[Top Builder 2024]: agstr

[bolander72]

🏗️ Top Builder 2024 Application Form to track progress through Round 1 - 3 ~ Currently in Round 1

📝 Instructions

1. Only complete this form if you have been chosen for Top Builder, by PlebLab.
2. Provide detailed information to assist the judges in evaluating your project.

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 The Team

• Team Name: agstr
• Number of Founders: 1
• Team Background: Software engineer and product consultant.
• Bitcoin & Lightning Involvement: Bitcoin meetups, Chaincode Labs seminars and FOSS developer program.
• Origin Story: agstr started as a journal of notes documenting some of the obstacles that farmers, ranchers, and meat processors were experiencing in their business operations with end-customers. This grew into a product idea that was never implemented into an agtech SAAS company I recently sold.

💡 The Idea

• Project Overview: AgList exists for consumers to discover local producers, to facilitate meat and produce purchases (deposits and balances), and to build strong food networks in local communities.
• Website: https://agstr.com
• GitHub: https://github.com/bolandco
• Project Stage: Greenfield
• Supplementary Materials: N/A

📚 Additional Information

• Additional Links/Info:

📌 Submission Type

• Initial Project Creation

🚀 Current Project Progress

• Progress Made:
• Challenges Faced:
• Future Roadmap of what's next:

⏳ Round 1 Milestone

• web app & PWA creation
• auth / accounts for producers and consumers
• start of a producer database

📝 Submission Complete

• All required information has been provided above.

📅 Top Builder Program Structure

Registration Opens: Monday, December 18, 2023

• Application: Interested teams apply for Top Builder.
• Selection: Teams will be chosen based on their application. See FAQ for details.

Round 1: January 13 - February 10, 2024

• Workshops: PlebLab weekly workshops start, available live and online.
• Chat Access: Selected teams join the PlebLab internal chat.
• Mentorship: Begins for teams.
• Project Milestones: Teams are set and judged on their first-round milestones.

Round 2: February 10 - 24, 2024

• Team Reduction: PlebLab cuts half of the Top Builder teams. (Only half continued in Round 2.)
• Project Milestones: Teams are set and judged on their second-round milestones.
• Workshops: PlebLab weekly workshops continue.
• Mentorship: Continues.

Round 3: Starting February 24, 2024

• Team Reduction: PlebLab narrows down to 6 Top Builder teams. (All will be pitching in Austin.)
• Final Milestones: Teams set final project milestones for the last round.
• Preparation: Teams prepare their pitch in front of judges. Final teams are contacted to come to Austin for Startup Day.

Final Round at Startup Day: March 14, 2024

• Preparation: Teams work on their final pitches at PlebLab.
• Presentations: Final teams present before judges on Startup Day.
• Deliberation: Judges decide during a happy hour.
• Announcement: The winner of Top Builder is announced at Austin BitDevs.
• Celebration: After-party for Top Builder.