SkillBlock

Find the nearest helper in a few clicks and pay using Cryptos!

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✨Inspiration

In most developing countries, there is a large sector of the economy that is called the informal sector or the unorganized sector. Employment in the informal labour market plays an important role in most developing economies. The informal sector consists of the self-employed and informal wage labour including Artisans, petty traders, labourers, electricians, plumbers, small business people, and non-agricultural casual workers.

Seeing the rise in unemployment across various countries due to increasing population, competition and COVID-19 we came across the idea of creating a DAO to provide a platform for informal workmen to list and bid for their services and also for people looking for helpers, labourers and workmen to get their service easily.

The major issue in this sector is that workmen don’t get the right compensation for their work and also common people looking for better workmen don’t get proper service. People don’t get to know about the nearest labourers, or workmen available near them. Our DAO sets out to solve this issue using automation and securing money transfers through blockchain. To know about the nearest labourer we have integrated Google Maps into our DAO.

What does it do❔

Application:

  1. Hiring labourer's for as many days as you want and getting their service.
  2. Labour can list their services on the site by entering their required details and get rewarded for their service.
  3. People who want the service can book the number of labourers and unto how many days they want to get the service and for that, they will have to pay the required service amount set by the required labour. In this way, labourers can bid for their service and get rewarded.

Key Benefits:

  • No middlemen were involved in transferring the money. Money is directly transferred to the labourer's account.
  • Transparent, decentralized and made secure using smart contracts.
  • Fully automated for both Laboure's: for providing service details, & for People: for the booking of Labours.

🧑‍💻How we built it⚒️

🛣️Roadmap

Created and tested the smart contract on Remix IDE. Deployed the smart contracts on the polygon MATIC blockchain network. Created Moralis server and started syncing smart contracts events. Made a ReactJs app prototype for Landing Page, Profile details page and Bookings page. Integrated Google maps API for the location services. Modified the UI for a better user experience.

Challenges we ran into😵

  1. Smart Contract to transfer money to the respective labourers.
  2. Using Moralis was a bit challenging for us, as it has some less documentation and materials regarding the feature we were working on and interacting with the smart contracts through React Moralis and uploading files through Moralis to IPFS was also a bit challenging for us.
  3. Common integration while using free Google Maps API, causing issues when running into a high load production environment.

Accomplishments that we're proud of❤️

We are very proud to have accomplished the objective of making a viable prototype, even though we have faced some issues during these days, nonetheless, we managed to overcome all of those issues and as a consequence, we have grown wiser and our vision has become wider.

What we learned📝

  • Writing smart contracts and testing them on Polygon Mumbai Testnet.
  • Learned about using various functions of Moralis SDK like Moralis server and Moralis DB.
  • Uploading files to IPFS through Moralis.
  • Interacting with smart contract functions using React.js and Moralis.

What's next ⁉️

With the limited resources (me) and time available I’ve focused purely on the smart contract. We’ve commenced the front-end in React. We will continue to work on this over the coming weeks to bring the full benefit of the DAPP. Business model DAO’s target audience is both household and small-scale businesses & industries. We’ll publish the Product to Product Hunt, Indie hackers, Reddit and through founder niche campaigns. We’ll generate users through campaigns we’ve planned for DAO which include a web3 jobs marketplace and an on-chain CV; the target audience is the same. Revenue will mostly come through DAO products and add ons. We’ve had little time for gauging reaction, however, potential business models for DAO include the following:

  • Monthly SaaS fee per seat or per organization (includes support)
  • A small per cent eg: 5% of $DAO

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