MyEcho

DEMO: https://echo-1.vercel.app/ VIDEO: https://www.loom.com/share/e4bee56265524731b31f60383d83436c

Abstract. Centralization is bad for all stakeholders. We’re providing a way to decentralize something the average internet user today will understand. If we do our job right, they won’t be sure they’re using crypto at all.

Introduction What's broken about crowdfunding.

What everyone knows is broken Fees Censorship Payout time tables

What crypto positive people know is broken Not your db not your data Not your keys, not your crypto.

Everyone loses in the crowdfunding space. Users pay high fees, in many cases they don’t own their content, and the content they can and can’t create is subject to the whims of the platform.

Platforms are constrained by payment gateways/processors/banks resulting in a struggle between doing what's best for users and what's best for the platform.

By using scalable decentralized services we eliminate many of these concerns.

We realize some issues may need to be resolved in part with (censorship), but we plan to implement self governance and voting where the community can decide what content should be disallowed.

The DApp

MyEcho provides a secure / decentralized way for creators and supporters to interact with each other. MyEcho will be Web 2.0 on the outside and Open web throughout. Accounts will use familiar features (google, facebook, etc.) on the surface, but NEAR protocol & Tor.us/Ceramic under the hood. Data will be accessible and permissioned through the DApp, but stored in and managed in decentralized services; Skynet/Ceramic.

This app was initialized with [create-near-app]

Quick Start

To run this project locally:

1. Prerequisites: Make sure you've installed [Node.js] ≥ 12
2. Install dependencies: yarn install
3. Run the local development server: yarn dev (see package.json for a full list of scripts you can run with yarn)

Now you'll have a local development environment backed by the NEAR TestNet!

Go ahead and play with the app and the code. As you make code changes, the app will automatically reload.

***THIS APP USES NEXT JS AND REQUIRES SOME CHANGES TO THE create-near-app ***

Exploring The Code

1. The "backend" code lives in the /assembly folder. This code gets deployed to the NEAR blockchain when you run yarn deploy:contract. This sort of code-that-runs-on-a-blockchain is called a "smart contract" – [learn more about NEAR smart contracts][smart contract docs].
2. The frontend code lives in the /src folder. /src/index.html is a great place to start exploring. Note that it loads in /src/index.js, where you can learn how the frontend connects to the NEAR blockchain.
3. Tests: there are different kinds of tests for the frontend and the smart contract. The smart contract code gets tested with [asp], and the frontend code gets tested with [jest]. You can run both of these at once with yarn run test.