Web3 Blog creator

Make it easy for everyday people to create & host their blogs on Web3 a simple clicks, no technical knowledge required.

This is an award-winning project developed for the Encode club Open Data Hack Hackathon.

Link to the award blog post

Features for creators/influencers

1. Create blog site easily with just a few clicks.
2. Create your exclusive membership subscriptions with a few clicks, payments will be handled by smart contract transparently.
3. 0 downtime guaranteed by the Blockchain.
4. Your data will be forever safe because it is hosted on a decentralized blockchain.
5. Censor free. No one can ever take down your blog.

Project Presentation

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1r1rB2AG8jCJ3d0qMdu8YVyJKUsXD87uWaa7hzpEY-UQ/edit?usp=sharing

Demo

https://www.loom.com/share/f818256f55aa455a870be69260978d15?sid=07a974cc-742b-407a-878a-2bafbcd27ac7

Project Design

Local Development

Pre-requisites

This project work closely with the other 3 components shown in the above architecture, please visit their repo and set them up in the following order

• Smart contract
• Web3 blog creator API
• Blog template (creator created blog site)

Before attempt to run this project, please follow the checklist below to make sure you have everything setup correctly:

• The Smart contract deployed on local hardhat node (By running npm run up and in another terminal, run npm run deploy:up)
• The smart contract address is copied & pasted to the constants.js file's blogTablesContractAddress variable in the API, and the constants.ts file's blogTablesContractAddress variable of the blog template.
• Run yarn release for the blog template (after the contract address is updated), copy the build folder to the API repo's root, rename it to blog_template
• The API's .env has been updated with your own keys
• The API is started by running yarn start

Start the dev site

yarn
yarn start