Photofy

Photofy is a decentralized photo/image sharing platform. Secured by blockchain, where viewers can provide contributions/tip to authors in cryptocurrency.

Most of the image/photo sharing application that we use today are highly centralized, this central authority can remove your posts without any prior notice and most of them does not provide any contributions or incentives to the content posters. Photofy platform users can directly provide tips to the contributor of any specific content whom they would like to support. This is done anonymously, ensuring sufficient privacy and also without the need for middle-men or intermediaries. Anyone can post image/photo with discription, this post can be of educational or entertainment value, which are stored in a decentralized, public and transparent form by virtue of blockchain technology. The uploaded files are stored using web3.storage with data persisted by Filecoin and accessible over IPFS. Tips are paid in ether. The Smart Contracts are currently deployed on the Ganache Testnet and also can be deployed on any EVM-compatible chain.

Inspired by Dapp University.

Tech Stack Used

• Solidity
• Truffle Suite
• Ganache
• web3.storage - IPFS and Filecoin
• ReactJS
• react-bootstrap
• web3react
• Metamask
• ether

Photofy Smart Contract Deployment

Run Locally

Pre-Requisites

• Truffle Suite
• Ganache CLI

$ npm install -g truffle
$ npm install -g ganache-cli

Clone the project

$ git clone 
$ cd Photofy

Setting up a local Blockchain

Install dependencies

$ npm install

Compile Smart Contracts

$ truffle compile

Run ganache

$ ganache-cli

Run migrations to deploy the smart contracts

$ truffle migrate

Setting up the client

Start the App

$ npm start

Visit https://localhost:3000/ to view the app

Running Tests

To run tests, run

  truffle test