Sw/.tch
decentralized builders network with social proof and referral smart contracts. JSON resumes are on IPFS, stake into connections to show importance, introductions and referrals are paid
About
- **traditional **professional networks are not user-friendly for engineers. we want to control the data, see real connections and less messaging noisy. - people create and host their profiles in the form of a standardized **JSON on IPFS**. benefit: data control, anyone can build an easily searchable database (scrape and fill Postgress, for example), where a recruiter has full flexibility of creating queries forgoing the limitations of custodial professional networks - when 2 users worked together or know each other well, they can **stake **FIL (or other payment tokens) into their connection. think of it as a twitter blue mark but for connections instead of profiles - **referral fee** if one user wants an introduction to a friend of a friend in the network, they pay a fee. Motivation & impact -- professional networks' search interface is worse than SQL queries!! -- users should get paid for incoming messages, not the professional networked company -- users should control their data and not the professional company -- interface optimized for builders and hackers, not for hr/sales/bd. we want to see each other's source code
How it's made
fevm CID control, graph of erc20vote tokens, and referral logic we wrap wFIL token used as a payment and stake it into the connections between friends - people create and host their profiles in the form of a standardized JSON - JSON has fields for skills, education, experiences, projects, hackathons - people host themselves, so they have control over the data and can delete it whenever they want to - the host URL goes into a file. the file is either shared publicly on IPFS or BitTorrent - an opensource tool to scrape the self-hosted JSON resumes into a Postgres or an opensource search engine - matching for projects open-source AI tool - zk recommendations and social proof Bonus - recipient gets paid for reading a message (from a recruiter, for example) - friends - posting things - the UI has to be intuitive for coders first and only then others Motivation & impact -- professional networks' search interface is worse than SQL queries!! -- users should get paid for incoming messages, not the professional networked company -- users should control their data and not the professional company -- interface optimized for builders and hackers, not for hr/sales/bd. we want to see each other's source code