Proximity | Open Source Meets Open Economies

Demo

About

The problem it solves ## Current Education & Hiring System Sucks! We live in a world where landing a good job largely depends on luck as the selection procedure isn't transparent and lacks behind in matching worthy talent. The current system also doesn't take into account the interest & capability of each candidate. You could freelance, but that can be challenging without a network of customers and you’re mostly on your own. This is the reason that many times the new job inductees are not a good fit for the role or don't get along well with the nature of work and hence, not able to keep up with their position. Meanwhile, those with the interest & calibre miss out on many such great opportunities. *Is there a way to have both a good community/team, a high degree of freedom with incentives?* ### The Ideal World - What if, as a student, I could get exposed to the real-world work of companies/startups and get incentives to contribute to the same. - What if I could join a community to find projects, engage with project supervisors & other talented people to find the work/team that intrigues me and get rewarded for my contribution. - What if, as a business, I could get my work done with the help of outside talent and hire interested candidates with a transparent record of contribution to projects. There's a dire need for an eco-system that incentivises participation in open-source *work/hiring* with transparent governance and an inclusive community that benefits both the people & businesses to find their interests, increase productivity with rewards and deliver great results. *DAOs seem to offer just that.* A DAO is an organisation, a community and that means you can collectively look for and work on projects or build your own products. Initial tokens for joining the eco-system will be provided to both companies & people to propose a project or apply to projects. Successful contributors are rewarded with tokens and many other benefits after a collective review of DAO decision-makers.

How it's made

Challenges we ran into *The scale of the success of GitCoin validates the massive potential of ProximityDAO* and in future, we aim to build an infrastructure that can collaborate to provide: game-based learning for various skill-tracks, bounties for creators (Game-makers, Bloggers, Youtubers) to contribute to the knowledge base of our platform and other such initiatives which will increase the value throughput of our community. *But, of course, there are various challenges to overcome for successful implementation of this concept:* - I am currently building a team of developers and will take leverage of my network to build *Proximity Website/App*. As an Aragon Ambassador, I used Aragon infrastructure for a simple yet effective demonstration as the idea was conceived just 4 days before the deadline. (I researched a lot and worked on a few ideas before striking this) - Initial tokens are required to set up the whole DAO economy and hence, some funding will be required to kickstart the main project. - Marketing: After some traction with funding, we'll start by onboarding businesses on our platform and then the users will be acquired through marketing to target communities in the education/job space. Successful project completion & rewards will build credibility to attract more users and businesses. The provision of support & resources along with the win will help us achieve it. - Mentorship sessions, learning material and the community created by Polygon were really beneficial in brushing up the web3 knowledge that helped me formulate the Proximity concept. This is the atmosphere I strive to create with my idea in the open-source sphere. ### Important - Testing Guide : ** The link provided is of Aragon where I made the DAO demo and it is deployed on the Rinkeby network. Hence, Please connect your Aragon screen with the Rinkeby network to access the demo. ** *(Please consider me for top-40 polygon hack as well since the **main project will be deployed on Matic Mainnet**)*