Polkadot Builder Party - Participant Introduction

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This thread is an opportunity for Polkadot Builder Party participants to introduce themselves.

No matter if you just solo participate, or are looking for ideas, or for a team to join, this thread is for you.

Feel free to use any form you want to post. Here are some ideas:

  • What is your background?
  • What brings you to Polkadot?
  • What are your person goals for the hackathon?
  • If you are you looking to join a team: What skills or knowledge can you offer?
  • If you want to create a team around a certain idea, what is it?
  • Also: Would you like your project progress to be covered on Polkadot socials?

Feel free to link to any social profiles or Github repos.

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Hi, everyone

I’m Abinash Sahoo (23M) from India.

I’ve been involved in the Polkadot ecosystem for about 2 years now. I come from a web development background and also work with Rust for smart contracts.

For this hackathon, I’m exploring two categories of ideas:

  1. Improving UX - making it easier and more intuitive for users to interact with Polkadot projects and the network itself.
  2. Building with ZKPs - experimenting with zero-knowledge proofs to unlock new possibilities in privacy and trustless verification within the ecosystem.

I’m excited to share progress and roadmaps of my project on Polkadot socials. Always happy to get feedback and ideas from the community.

You can connect with me here:

Looking forward to building and collaborating with you all

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Hey! I’m Armando from Venezuela, participating in many hackathons learning, having fun and wining some prizes.

I’m looking for crazy interesting ideas to build.

Been in web3 for 2.5 years but started programming at 12yo.

Have attended many Polkadot hackathons and really enjoyed the vibe and the eco. My first hackathon was Decoded 2023 in Copenhagen and I’m really looking forward to Sub0 Symbiosis in Buenos Aires.

I don’t mind joining a team but I usually hack solo.

My github: armsves (Armando Medina) · GitHub

My Twitter: x.com/armsves

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yo guys, i’m open to joining a team for the upcoming hackathon.

Im a ghostwriter and content strategist and won a marketing bounty at WebZero’s Synergy hackathon. Read the case study here: How To Turn Crypto Trauma Into Award-Winning Content: A Guerrilla Marketing Case Study

What brings me to Polkadot? Cypherpunk ethos and a cool builder culture.

Website: https://flyyoufools.wtf

Welcome to reach out!

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Hi everyone,

My name is Jean-François from France and I like to build pallets.

It’s my first hackaton, I’m looking to see how it work and hoping to find some ides to build a parachain with you.

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:waving_hand: GM! I’m working full-time on Swush, a cross-chain DEX aggregator on Polkadot Hub.

For this hackathon, I’m building NFT Avatar Generator – upload a base image, pick traits, and get custom avatars in seconds.

Try it out : NFT Avatar Generator - Polkadot
Demo : watch here

Useful for marketing and community growth campaigns with NFTs.

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Hello! I am Dan from Aotearoa (New Zealand). I am a product leader and decentralised governance nerd.

I am really curious as to why there is no lightweight, composable DAO tooling in the Polkadot ecosystem – while there is plenty in the Ethereum world.

Imagine you team up and build something for this hackathon, win a prize, and take your project further. Your team want to decentralise on-chain from inception so you can share ownership of the project, and distribute decision-making about direction, funding and assets. How do you do that?

If we build a parachain, we get all of OpenGov, which up there with the best in web3. But what if the project is smaller – a dApp or contract? As far as I know, there is nothing – aside that is from the solid start made by Virto with Virto Communities on Kreivo. Those pallets make some OpenGov features available in a multi-tenant DAO-factory. As far as I know, that is not shipped yet, and the team has paused work on it to build VirtoConnect – tackling the also important problem of lowering the barrier to adoption of web3.

As interested as I am in DAO tooling, I am more interested in solving a real problem. My first question is:

How many Polkadot project teams want to decentralise their governance and how do they go about it?

Hence this forum post seeking feedback from project teams: DAO tooling for project teams . If you have insights into that, I’d love to hear from you.

If I find evidence of the problem and market, I would love to build something on the Kreivo pallets for the hackathon. I can contribute, vision, strategy, roadmap, backlog, testing, user feedback and iterating towards a prize and real customer value. If you have dev, UX skills and are keen on this idea, let me know!

And if we form a team, let’s decentralise our governance from the start :slight_smile: