Flock
- $27,500 USDC
Find and spontaneously hangout with nearby Moonbirds through a simple, easy to use iOS app. The barrier to local community formation, is a lack of knowing where fellow members are; Flock makes it simple and easy to connect with Moonbirds in your area to hangout. Flock aligns with Moonbirds’ mission to improve connection and inclusion.
About the project
Find and spontaneously hangout with nearby Moonbirds through a simple, easy to use iOS app. The barrier to local community formation, is a lack of knowing where fellow members are; Flock makes it simple and easy to connect with Moonbirds in your area to hangout. Flock aligns with Moonbirds’ mission to improve connection and inclusion.
Mission alignment
- Create experiences or products which directly benefit holders
- Elevate Moonbirds and Mythics within the web3 community
Community backers
TristanNFT_XYZ, DrewBarman, PLY GenoBeano, Zorba, Ksther, KyleATX, jefflebowski, auslo
What is it?
Flock is a simple, easy to use iOS app that allows users to find and spontaneously hangout with nearby Moonbirds.
Moonbird holders will be capable of organizing their own hangouts without the Proof team’s permission, as well as take advantage of this freedom, to quickly spin up and get the word out (push notifications) about impromptu gatherings to those nearby, when they are scattered in close proximity, such as, a conference.
How does it benefit the Moonbirds and Mythics holder community?
1. Easy local community identification
2. Seamless impromptu event coordination
3. Share connection with fellow Moonbirds
Flock benefits the Moonbirds community by increasing their connection and sense of belonging with one another. Flock achieves this by reducing the time and frustration of discovering and organizing spontaneous hangout opportunities with other Moonbird holders.
About the team
Hi! I am Tristan. I grew up in Portsmouth, VA before joining the Navy as a Nuclear Engineer on Fast Attack Submarines. The first two years were professional school, where they take 18 year olds and cram physical engineering in their craniums, night and day, for 2 years (Rightfully so, you literally hold a joystick that operates a Nuclear Reactor.). That followed by 4 years on the Sub.
Then, I went to the Bay Area where I started HeartX, which sought to improve heart disease, as an Uber for Functional Medicine Doctors. Working on HeartX for 3 years taught me relevant skills, like full stack programming and product management. Since then, I have also worked on The Points Guy mobile app and contracts for the government and startups.
I’m a day 0 Proof and MB holder, as well as one of the most active in real life event community members, meaning I understand the problems we have and ideas on how to make it better.
See, “Revenue and Funding Strategy”, for fiscal benefits to the Lunar Society
Product strategy
Implementation Stages
Currently
Moonbirds are authenticate through TokenproofMoonbirds can securely authenticate their wallets through Tokenproof
Moonbirds may create hangouts for any Moonbird to accessMoonbirds can attend, manage, and chat about hangouts
MVP
Identifying the communities Moonbirds are in
Nearby Moonbirds availability to hangout
Social App basics
Horizon - “Now, bring me that horizon.” - Jack Sparrow
Get notified when nearby Moonbirds become available, through Push Notifications
Expand the Flock Moonbirds community to Android users
Keep up with where your favorite Moonbirds are going next with Follow
Timeline (Stage/Feature - Duration)
MVP - 3.5 weeks
Push Notifications - 2 weeks
Android - 4 weeks
Follow - 2 weeks
Required Team
* Junior iOS Developer
* Backend Developer
* Android developer
What are the risks?
Eventbrite, Discord, or some start up duplicating the product
We will use analytic software (ex: mixpanel) to quickly iterate through features that are undesirable by users. Larger companies experience the innovation dilemma, that prevents them from being so nimble.
We will mitigate this risk by continuing to innovate. Our team is good at forming new ideas and rapidly prototyping them for moving KPIs, leaving copycats in constant catch up, until it is too late. For example; Weebly had a competitor from S. Africa rip their interface off and they were relaunching their site with a new design 2 weeks later.
Tokenproof Dependency
Currently, user retention seems to be dependent on Tokenproof
If Tokenproof decides to compete with Flock, then removing their authentication support, user onboarding will fall off.
We will mitigate this risk by gaining mindshare and trust within the community. Once that happens, we will simply allow users to connect their wallets through the website like Tokenproof does.
What will the money actually be spent on? Do you expect any other money to come in related to this project, e.g. revenues?
The grant money will go towards service bills, talent, and customer research (likely hanging with you fine peeps, dare I say, “hoots” 😉 ).
SPENDING PLAN
Stage - MVP - $13,000
Hangout suggestions and community availability
$4400
NFT agnostic wallets
$2200
Social app basics (blocking, dms, profile customization)
$6500
Stage - Horizon - $15,200 ($27,200)
Notifications
$1,700
Android
$9,600
User Follow
$3,900
(Of course, the DAO is welcome to grant Flock more capital in exchange for more features that didn’t make it to this proposal)
REVENUE AND FUNDING STRATEGY
If Moonbirds support Flock they will get 1 year subscriptions for free.
Flock intends on sending shares and/or profit based royalties to the DAO treasury when the legal aspect gets sorted, to further the Lunar Society opportunities and incentives.
Flock will try a couple different revenue models, in search of a fit for the product. That said, we will begin by charging a $3 a month subscription to users. Other options include advertisement and B2B (Flock to Collection).
Flock is also raising $600,000 on a $6M market cap, in order to build iterate features, bug fix, and a/b test to attain product market fit.