Skillance
Skill up before freelance out
About
The problem it solves - Bridging the Mentorship Gap Over 80% of freelancers don’t realize the value of mentorship in building skills and securing opportunities. Skillance connects users with trusted mentors, offering guided learning paths that accelerate career/freelance growth. - Ensuring Privacy and Security Most platforms lack private channels for mentorship chats, freelance negotiations, and file transfers. Skillance uses a privacy-first infrastructure to protect sensitive conversations and project assets from unauthorized access. - Boosting Trust Through Reviews With review submission rates below 10%, many mentors and employers lack credibility signals. Skillance incentivizes honest, timely feedback to create a transparent reputation system for all users.
How it's made
Challenges we ran into - Scaffold-ETH2 Integration Failure Our initial plan to bootstrap the dApp using Scaffold-ETH2 failed due to compatibility issues with our architecture. We pivoted to building our own setup from scratch, which gave us more flexibility and control. - Substream Implementation Struggles We aimed to integrate Substreams for efficient on-chain data indexing but encountered persistent technical hurdles. As a workaround, we successfully implemented a standard Subgraph, which still met our core data needs. - Sapphire & ROFL Integration – Combining Sapphire’s confidential smart contracts with ROFL’s secure transaction authentication proved challenging due to their distinct tooling and workflows. After extensive debugging and testing, we achieved a seamless integration that powers our chatbot micropayments and mentor–mentee private chats.