Archives.wtf - Extension

1. TL;DR

We would like to seek funding of 192.4K USDC (~99 ETH) to keep maintaining & developing archives.wtf as the main archive center of Nouns DAO over the next 6 months (May '23-Oct '23). Our focus is to increase the current media contents of Nouns ecosystem with the support of software improvements & public goods tools together enhancing user experiences.

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2. Proposal Summary

Prop 176 Recap

On December 3rd, we were funded of 32.28 ETH ($42K) to build an archive center which stores & display all media contents of Nouns DAO’s projects & artworks and all the memes proliferations.

In the past 4 months we have ;

1. Archives.wtf - built a reliable archive website from the ground up
2. Built features ; link to thread

• under any categories, you can search any related data within the page, eg ; Nouns On-chain Proposal
  • prop number
  • project title
  • description
  • builders/artists
  • category
• we enable scroll, filter & search persistence for better user navigation ( which stored on your device )
• you can use cmd+k / ctrl+k for quick access to search in page
• cc0 icon & download button

3. As per 4/11/2023, we have gathered and archived ;

• Proposals (On-chain, Prop House & NSFW) ; 611 proposals, 410 builders
• Contests by Noun Square, 4156, Gnars DAO, Noadz ; 606 artworks & entries, 326 artists
  • Nouniversary
  • Nouns Holiday
  • Nouns Mash-up
  • Nouns Movies
  • Nouns Sneakers
  • Nouns Esports
  • Nouns Space
  • 100 Days of Nouns

4. Total No of Builders - Link
5. Built a tool named Uploadr for quick data upload & storage to the Arweave network
6. Organized & compiled full database in Nouns Archive’s Notion

Feedbacks from the communities

Past reference

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3. Project Goals For Upcoming 6 Months

The Key Challenges

From Prop 176 :

• There isn’t currently a main archive center that stores and display all datas like
  • proposal progress images/videos
  • end product images/videos/links/repo
  • nounish artworks from contests, events
  • cc0 contents & working files
• It is difficult for new people to discover any nounish contents because it is dispersed everywhere, throughout Twitter, Instagram & other platforms unless they have their own website or media-oriented approach which uses apps like Youtube. Particularly from the perspective of those who do not fully comprehend the Nouns ecosystem and where they might find it.
• There is no specific rule for proposers to update their project progress everyday, fortnightly, or once a month but we could encourage people to do that more often if we help to provide the right tools.
• Some builders with huge outcomes but stucked with time constraint need an additional support to archive their outputs.

As a central resource platform, cross pollination is one of things needed. Some of the early builders require assistance with visibility. With the connected links that point people to each nounish projects and builders, we assist the public in finding them.

The Strategies

Strategy 1 ; Curated submission form

• We want to build a curated submission form attached to the website which benefits from multiple touchpoints.
• Users are required for wallet connect (NNS supported) and could request to submit a new sub-category and additional contents to their existing proposals/details.
• The forms will allow users to select their preferred category, status, type of house, round, etc. (based on specific usage)
• User can check their submission history together with submission details (eg; date, title & status)

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Strategy 2 ; Uploader

• We want to improvise an uploader with some new features which we have built for the past few months.
• Users are required for wallet connect (NNS supported) & it will be token gated focusing on Nouns ecosystem to use it for free ;
  • Nounders
  • Nouners
  • Nounish Builders
  • Sub DAOs
  • Nouns’ NFT Open Edition Holders / Droposals (This Is Nouns, The Wizard’s Hat etc)
• Anyone who has just got noun-pilled into the ecosystem and want to use it, they may choose from any of the available criteria above. This will gradually benefit the Nouns DAO ecosystem over time.
• User can check their upload history together with the details (eg; date, title & arweave link)
• The fee of the uploaded permanent data is included under OpEx in Budget.

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Strategy 3 ; Tooling R&D

• We want to create and launch tooling research and development that will bring significant effect on the process and project’s efficiency and for the DAO where everyone could benefit from it.
• We will use the fund under OpEx in Budget.

*The strategies mentioned are what we are focused on so far, but they are subject to change along the way or the best recommendations from the community. There will be more along the journey.

Data Permanence

• We are using Arweave network to store all the datas due to its one time fee permanent storage and we want to use it exclusively for all storage going forward.
• Currently, around 40% of the datas are now saved on Arweave, with the remaining 60% being processed. (Currently on Notion)
• There have been a few instances where artists or builders have discontinued their hosting and lost their tracks; this is something we do not want to happen again.
• We want to make sure all datas of Nouns ecosystem are permanently stored in a decentralised manner and is always accessible.
• We are able to boost the website’s performance with the help of Vercel Edge Network which offers image optimization, page load speed & automatically data cached on the network.
• The cost of uploading will be factor in under OpEx as per attached in Budget.
• Publish monthly data report of archives.wtf for public reference.
• All compiled datas are stored in Nouns Archive’s notion.

RSS Feed

Utilising a simplified and condensed data feed can be more efficient than navigating through an entire website for the required information, making data feed crucial for individual use cases. That is why we’re adding feed as a new feature, to make it easier for you to access the data you need and achieve your goals more efficiently.

We will provide a few types of feed for the main & sub-category pages ;

• RSS feed - /rss.xml
• Atom feed - /atom.xml
• JSON feed - /feed.json

The data we have gathered can be utilised by everyone in the ecosystem for their own unique purposes. For instance, a mini companion app can directly use the JSON feed to list all proposals in NSFW Small Grants.

Analytics

We believe data transparency is important for the DAO & community. We are using Vercel’s Web Analytics to get detailed insights. It provides in-depth information about your website’s visitors, new metrics like top pages, top referrers, and demographics including information on countries, operating systems, and browsers.

As of 29th March - 20th April 2023,

• Visitors & Page Views

• Panels

Sustainability Strategy

The main intention of this project is to provide long-term benefits for Nouns. It serves as main archive center that provides wide media contents all over Nouns ecosystem for public reference. Once the open-source repository is public, we will be able to observe other NFT communities with active builders & projects and who benefits from Nouns’ product to use it such as ;

Possible Candidates

• Nouns’ extension & derivatives
• Meebits
• On-Chain Monkey
• UMA
• TinyDinos
• Anata

What’s next?

We certainly have long-term goals with few phases as we wish to accomplish them gradually. We attempt to avoid by highlighting all of our future objectives in one specific proposal as it sounds overly ambitious as we aim to underpromise and over-deliver. We believe that this will provide long term values and benefits to the DAO. It may not be a direct ROI.

Some ideas worth looking at ;

1. Preservation of archive material ( physical & digital )
2. Nouns Archive '23 ( Limited physical edition )
3. Publications - zines/quarterly
4. Archive Data Request
5. Ticketed exhibition of Nouns Archive materials ( ROI to DAO )

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4. Deliverables

To be delivered over the next 6 months ;

• Maintaining & developing archives.wtf with all existing & incoming database of medias & arts in Nouns’ ecosystem for the next 6 months.
• Curated submission form & uploader. (under Strategy)
• Toolings R&D. (under Strategy)
• Nouns Archive repository.
• RSS Feed
• Daily nounish post in randomly manner on our social media, Nouns Archive.

Short-term checklist ( to be archived )

• Nouns Museum
• InternatioNouns
• Nouns AI’s Contest
• Messhup’s Cover Art

Long-term checklist ( to be archived )

• Prop House (Other houses, eg ; Lil Nouns, Nouns Japan, Nouns Builder etc)
• Nouns On-Chain Props
• NSFW
• The Noun Square
• Nouns World
• Nouns’ POAP Art

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5. Team

• Voadz

  • Design, Data & Operation
  • Nouncillor
  • Full-time building on Nouns (Oct 21-Now)
  • Worked on Props 176, several Prop House & NSFW grants

• Nero One

  • Design & Engineering
  • Worked on Props 176, DinoNouns, uploadr.app

• Jakz

  • Engineering
  • Front-end Dev @ GALLERY.so

• 0xLeo

  • Data

• Diqalurima

  • Marketing & Operation

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6. Budget

192.4K USDC (~99 ETH at current prices) to fund development of archives.wtf over the next 6 months (May '23-Oct '23).

• 145.8K USDC (~75 ETH) ; 2 engineers, 2 datas & 1 design

  • 7.5K USDC/monthly - Voadz (FT)
  • 9.5K USDC/monthly - Nero One (FT)
  • 4.5K USDC/monthly - Jakz (PT)
  • 2.8K USDC/monthly - 0xHertz (PT)

• 46.6K USDC (~24 ETH) ; for OpEx including infra, tooling, bounties, operation, marketing

  • 2.8K USDC/monthly - Diqalurima (PT)

*The increase in compensation is due to increase scope of work for each individual, more unseen work with small details and adding more specific builders.

Funds will be received by the Nouns Archive multi-sig (3/4) and then released via streams with the following signers ;

Voadz Nero One Joel Cares Maty

Multisig address ; 0xdd7e4d8A5FEF6702F7e9C5B45dB440ba7a6e00c0

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