💡Inspiration
We wanted to build something that turns listners from being passive consumers of songs and albums to music fans who could directly engage with their favorite artists and participate in the upside of their musical careers.
Forward-thinking artists are experimenting with Web3 tools to engage with their communities and build loyalty amongst their fans. Whereas existing PFP NFT collections are static images that can be displayed as a badge of affiliation with a particular online community, artists’ NFT collections are dynamic membership clubs that confer certain access rights and benefits for tokenholders.
These privileges could include exclusive access to sales of merchandise and concert tickets, invitations to private Discord channels to interact with other fans and/or the artist, meet and greets, airdrops and giveaways, and even admission to “roped off” sections of metaverse virtual worlds (such as Decentraland or Sandbox).
⚙️ What it does
F3STIVAL lets artists host and organize concerts virtually with gather.town, and also monetize these concerts with the power of NFTs on the DeSo blockchain. Artists and musicians can create a space for their concert on gather.town, mint NFTs on the DeSo blockchain and display their minted NFTs for fans to buy within their concert venue with F3STIVAL.
🏗 How we built it
We built F3STIVAL's toolkit with React, Vite, Javascript, HTML and CSS. We also used Material UI and Emotion for the UI. Here's how we used technology from MLH Sponsors this weekend:
💙Use of DeSo
We used DeSo to enable artists to mint NFTs, because we learnt that it was built ground up for the purpose of social media and thus, is capable of handling large picture and audio files without costing a lot, unlike blockchains built for fintech. We used the deso-protocol package to fetch NFTs and display them in a carousel. Using DeSo felt intimidating, but the recently released DeSo Developer Hub was a lifesaver and made documentation so easy to understand!
💛 Use of Ab InBev
While AB InBev isn't a technology company, we were all really inspired by Ab InBev's values while working on F3STIVAL. Here's how F3STIVAL creates more cheers for everyone: (Listed here: https://www.ab-inbev.com/who-we-are/our-vision/our-values/)
- Like Ab InBev, we dreamed big. We wanted to do our last hackathon of the 2022 Season with an epic project that would empower artists and listeners and take it to the next level.
- Ab InBev's values made us realize that our greatest strength is our team. This motivated us to work hard and ship this project.
- And Ab InBev's 5th value really resonates with us too: we're gonna be making F3STIVAL simpler and more fun to use, and continue to add features that musicians and listeners would want, keeping in mind that there's always room for improvement.
❤️ Use of Domain.com
We claimed a couple of domains from Domain.com this weekend to give our project it's own place on the internet and enable users to discover it quicker. Here are the domains we registered:
- f3stival.tech
- musicall.tech
- festivall.tech Thank you MLH and Domain.com for letting us register these for free at Hackerland.
🚧 Challenges we ran into
We encountered a huge problem in our previous idea and had to abandon it halfway, so we stayed up all night building a new project, F3STIVAL and we're really proud of what we've accomplished.
📚 What we learned
We learnt a lot this weekend, despite running into a couple of bugs and issues. We learnt how to use DeSo and some of us in our team even learnt web development for the first time. But most importantly we learnt the importance of team work and working hard.
Built With
- css3
- deso-protocol
- emotion
- gather
- html5
- javascript
- materialui
- react
- vite
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