From c5604eec1e910c27fab3730d11b00ac75bd1287a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Shivani Singh <94933127+shivani7q@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2022 21:21:30 +0530 Subject: [PATCH 1/3] [Project Submission] ETH My Song --- projects/ETHmySong.md | 82 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 82 insertions(+) create mode 100644 projects/ETHmySong.md diff --git a/projects/ETHmySong.md b/projects/ETHmySong.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f9705369 --- /dev/null +++ b/projects/ETHmySong.md @@ -0,0 +1,82 @@ +## Project Name +ETH My Song + +## Category + +- Decentralised application +- Music + +## Project Description + +Project - https://ethmysong.vercel.app/ + +This project aims to solve an issue widely faced by the music artist community - Independent artists find it hard to earn money through their compositions online (music streaming)speciaially when they're starting out. It's difficult to find gigs in the beginning of their careers and hence funding the music production operation becomes a costly affair. +Soundcloud is a centralised platform made for artists to post their music ompositions and gather some following. Even though the platform is great, it doesn't allow for assisting your favourite artists financially like one can do on Patreon. We want to solve this, our dApp allows peer-to-peer tipping without any cuts by any middleman, hence allowing artist fans to directly fund their favourite artists' music or favourite music, direclty from the platform. +Like SoundCloud, artists/users can directly upload their music composition on the platform by signing the smart contract to upload it and it would be live on the platform. The same ETH address with which the music was uploaded, a tipping button is linked which allows their fans to directly support them by tipping in ETH. + +Having worked closely with a few of the independent artists, I realised how difficult it is for small artists to sustain their art. As an artist (spoken poetry) myself I have experienced how difficult it is to earn from your art as an independent artist, therefore I was inspired to make something to solve this problem. + +As a next step we want to bring in an authentication system, wherein we desire to link artist's (audio uploader's) twitter to the dapp and assign a checkmark to distinguish real artists from the imitators. There are many ways in which the portal/dapp can still be spammed with unregulated audio files and getting this sorted would be the prime motive as we move ahead. + +## [Demoideo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_RKD7fRYJE) + +## Use of IPFS, Filecoin and Libp2p + +The dapp utilises IPFS for decentralised audio/music file storage. + +## Project Status + +The project was originally launched as a submission for Polygon BUIDLit Hackathon where it won bounties in 2 categories. As of now, the project is in its prototype stage and requires more work. We're working on a better and interactive UI as well as brainstorming ways to avoid spam. + +Our next steps would be primarily to improve the UI/UX and bring in an authentication process to only allow original creators to upload and raise funds for their production. + +## Target Audience + +Our target audience is the music community, the listeners and fans of independent bands and artits. The userbase would largely consist of music fanatics who want to review their favourite artist's new composition, and would want to support to their art. + +The SoundCloud audience is an appropriate reference. + +## Rough estimated user base (if applicable) + +Currently, only beta testers. + +## Github repo + +ETH My Song - https://github.com/shivani7q/ETH_my_Song + +## Website + +ETH My Song - https://ethmysong.vercel.app/ + +(custom domain soon) + +Hackathon Submission link - https://devfolio.co/submissions/eth-my-song-3f8f + + +## Team Info + + +Shivani Singh, beginner Blockchain developer and marketing enthusiast. +- Student, KNC-University of Delhi +- Part Time Project Manager +- Email - shivani7q@gmail.com +- Github - https://github.com/shivani7q +- Discord - Shivani#6082 + +Karan Singh, game and blockchain developer with Sales and distribution experience. +- Advising and helping with technical issues in this project +- Github - https://github.com/krn17 +- LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/krn1/ +- Discord - kraft#9466 + ++ more to be included soon as we figure our next steps. + +### Team Size +2 + +## How to Contribute + +Spreading the word through social media platforms - twitter and insta specifically, among the music community would be great help. Throughtout the project many experienced developers helped us, since we're still new to blockchain development; would encourage you to reachout if you find some issues in the code or elsewhere. +Feel free to reachout to us on the above mentioned contact addresses :) + +Email - shivani7q@gmail.com From b1dafd5079390c37297b9f860523b1edfe9a9b31 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Shivani Singh <94933127+shivani7q@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2022 22:14:50 +0530 Subject: [PATCH 2/3] Update ETHmySong.md --- projects/ETHmySong.md | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/projects/ETHmySong.md b/projects/ETHmySong.md index f9705369..1583a2be 100644 --- a/projects/ETHmySong.md +++ b/projects/ETHmySong.md @@ -10,13 +10,13 @@ ETH My Song Project - https://ethmysong.vercel.app/ -This project aims to solve an issue widely faced by the music artist community - Independent artists find it hard to earn money through their compositions online (music streaming)speciaially when they're starting out. It's difficult to find gigs in the beginning of their careers and hence funding the music production operation becomes a costly affair. -Soundcloud is a centralised platform made for artists to post their music ompositions and gather some following. Even though the platform is great, it doesn't allow for assisting your favourite artists financially like one can do on Patreon. We want to solve this, our dApp allows peer-to-peer tipping without any cuts by any middleman, hence allowing artist fans to directly fund their favourite artists' music or favourite music, direclty from the platform. +This project aims to solve an issue widely faced by the music artist community - Independent artists find it hard to earn money through their compositions online (music streaming)specially when they're starting out. It's difficult to find gigs in the beginning of their careers and hence funding the music production operation becomes a costly affair. +Soundcloud is a centralised platform made for artists to post their music compositions and gather some following. Even though the platform is great, it doesn't allow for assisting your favourite artists financially like one can do on Patreon. We want to solve this, our dApp allows peer-to-peer tipping without any cuts by any middleman, hence allowing artist fans to directly fund their favourite artists' music or favourite music, directly from the platform. Like SoundCloud, artists/users can directly upload their music composition on the platform by signing the smart contract to upload it and it would be live on the platform. The same ETH address with which the music was uploaded, a tipping button is linked which allows their fans to directly support them by tipping in ETH. Having worked closely with a few of the independent artists, I realised how difficult it is for small artists to sustain their art. As an artist (spoken poetry) myself I have experienced how difficult it is to earn from your art as an independent artist, therefore I was inspired to make something to solve this problem. -As a next step we want to bring in an authentication system, wherein we desire to link artist's (audio uploader's) twitter to the dapp and assign a checkmark to distinguish real artists from the imitators. There are many ways in which the portal/dapp can still be spammed with unregulated audio files and getting this sorted would be the prime motive as we move ahead. +As a next step we want to bring in an authentication system, wherein we desire to link artist's (audio uploader's) twitter to the dapp and assign a checkmark to distinguish real artists from the imitators. There are many ways in which the portal/dapp can still be spammed with unregulated audio files and getting this sorted would be the prime motive as we move ahead ## [Demoideo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_RKD7fRYJE) @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ Our next steps would be primarily to improve the UI/UX and bring in an authentic ## Target Audience -Our target audience is the music community, the listeners and fans of independent bands and artits. The userbase would largely consist of music fanatics who want to review their favourite artist's new composition, and would want to support to their art. +Our target audience is the music community, the listeners and fans of independent bands and artists. The userbase would largely consist of music fanatics who want to review their favourite artist's new composition, and would want to support to their art. The SoundCloud audience is an appropriate reference. From d4be89db4c27c64edca0148b6da558f1b153a6bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Shivani Singh <94933127+shivani7q@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2022 22:28:52 +0530 Subject: [PATCH 3/3] Update ETHmySong.md --- projects/ETHmySong.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/projects/ETHmySong.md b/projects/ETHmySong.md index 1583a2be..f1217267 100644 --- a/projects/ETHmySong.md +++ b/projects/ETHmySong.md @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Having worked closely with a few of the independent artists, I realised how diff As a next step we want to bring in an authentication system, wherein we desire to link artist's (audio uploader's) twitter to the dapp and assign a checkmark to distinguish real artists from the imitators. There are many ways in which the portal/dapp can still be spammed with unregulated audio files and getting this sorted would be the prime motive as we move ahead -## [Demoideo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_RKD7fRYJE) +## [Demo Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_RKD7fRYJE) ## Use of IPFS, Filecoin and Libp2p