Dework Briefing Document
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General Discovery
Researched by: Ekira
About the event
- Project: Dework
- Guests: Lonis Hamaili
- Topic:
- Event schedule: October 26, 2022
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About our guest speaker
- Include guest name(s); try to include name pronunciation.
- Lonis Hamaili
- Write a short bio about the guest(s) including their role at the project they are speaking about.
- Lonis Hamaili is an Aspiring Effective Altruist (a person who cares about others and help them despite not gaining anything by doing this: Altruists have a strong desire to help others.) passionate about having the biggest possible social impact with his career through direct work and donation.
- Jan 2022 - Present (10 months) : Co-Founder at Dework, a web3-native project management with token payments, credentialing and bounties. Dework is a web3 tool and a powerful solution to DAOs with bounties and tasks for the community to complete.
- Oct 2020 - Present (2 years 1 month) : Fullstack Consultant at Freelance.
- Oct 2020 - Present (2 years 1 month) : Advisor at Normative.io. Normative, a startup that lets companies automate their carbon reporting - and in turn help them decrease their environmental footprint - has picked up $2.1 million in seed funding.
- Dec 2020 - Sep 2021 (10 months) : Full Stack Engineer Consultant at Lassie.
- Oct 2019 - Aug 2020 (11 months) : Co-Founder (YC S20) at Depict.ai a project recommender system used by Staples, Nudie jeans & 30+ more. Depict.ai has raised almost $20M from Tiger Global, initialized Capital, EQT, Northzone and is one of the largest ML companies in the Nordics.
- Dec 2019 - Jun 2020 (7 months) : Global Shaper at World Economic Forum. A World Economic Forum Organization for ‘Youth Global Leaders’. The forum hopes to catalyze and support fresh ideas and solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges through in-person meetings and virtual interactions using the online Shapers platform.
- Jun 2019 - Sep 2019 (4 months) : Business Development at Normative.io. Normative is Europe’s fastest growing supplier of automated sustainability reporting, providing the incentive and guidance required to drastically lower big companies’ environmental footprint.
- Jun 2019 - Aug 2019 (3 months) : Business Development at Noquo Foods. Noquo Foods aim to reinvent the way we consume foods by developing plant-based food alternatives that are tasty and nutritious.
- 2017 - Dec 2018 (2 years) : He was a Member of the Board at World Value Initiative- Lund. He facilitated a 4 hour long workshop for all 1200+ new Engineering students at LTH. He created material, recruited 15 speakers, got sponsorship. He also Co-Developed and presented a Leadership/Teamwork Education for the official Introduction Committee (Phöben) at LTH.
- Find one or two things that are unique or interesting about our guest. Little known facts are great! i.e. owns two Shiba Inus in real life so bought a lot of SHIB.
- Lonis Hamaili studied at Stockholm University, Stockholm School of Science 2018 - 2019. “Learned stuff, but with some what too long feedbacks loops, so he dropped out to help found Depict.ai”. He also attended Y Combinator a school that teaches the basics of starting a company. The YC batch program helps founders as they build their product, talk to their customers, and raise funding.
- Describe their crypto journey thus far. i.e. graduated from college in 2016, got their first bitcoin as a graduation gift, fell down the rabbithole of Ethereum, launched a DeFi protocol in 2020.
- How has their crypto journey impacted their decision to join/launch the project they work on today?
- What are some notable achievements that increase their web3 reputation?
- Co-founded Dework - a web3-native project management with token payments, credentialing and bounties used by DAOs to create bounties and tasks for the community.
About the project
- What is the general positioning of the project? i.e. DeFi, NFTs, DAOs, governance.
- DAOs
- What is the value proposition of the project? How does it clearly differentiate itself from others in the web3 space?
- With Dework, users can create task boards and move tasks between them. Tasks can be created and people apply to claim them. This eases progress monitoring, division of labor and community building with everybody feeling they are getting their worth for the worth for the work they do.
- How does it benefit it community members and general web3 communities at large?
- Dework solves the issue of decentralized collaboration, credentialing and bounty hunting
- Dework allow DAOs create bounties for contributors, let contributors build their web3 profile and pay with their own DAO token.
- Is it bridging blockchains, protocols, tools, communities, etc.?
- Yes
- Does it bring a unique vision or approach to solve challenges in web3?
- Yes, Dework solves the issue of decentralized collaboration, credentialing and bounty hunting that no other web3 application has addressed this issue like in the same manner as Dework.
- Dework also makes it easy for DAOs to let their communities vote on proposals, create bounties, track progress on those bounties, and pay out contributors.
- How does it improve the web3 ecosystem?
- Dework is one of the smartest idea to improve crypto adoption by providing a way to earn crypto by working on tasks.
- Generally, how does the product work?
- Provide basic information about the product
- Dework is a web3-native collaboration tool where decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) can organize internal and external teams.
- Dework is platform for web3 teams to engage with internal & external contributors, pay contributors while boosting their reputation for work completed, discover how DAOs get work done and how to work with contributors. It allows all kinds of projects to work openly or privately, and have contributors participate through tasks either by application, open submissions or gated claiming.
- Details of product stemming off high level overview
- Outline a few mid to high-level topics about the product
- Results of the product so far
- “Dework gives Web3 builders all the tools and talent necessary to help ambitious DAOs reach their full potential.
- Practical applications of product.
- Detail current functionality of project, where it is deployed, TVL.
- Dework makes it easy for DAOs to manage their workflow and for individual contributors to publicly feature the great work that they’ve done. It’s an absolutely awesome app for both user groups.
- Current and potential use cases.
- Dework is a web3-native project management tool
- Bounty platform
- Manage tasks and bounties
- Outline steps for a beginner to get started.
- Go to Dework website, on arrival, Dework will prompt you to create a profile by connecting your Discord, crypto wallet, or Github. The benefit of having all three options is that a single Dework profile can join a DAO’s Discord, facilitate instant payment, and show prior Github work all while remaining anonymous.
- Once it’s connected, the home page displays tabs for Top DAOs, Open Bounties and Grants.The Top DAOs feature is a simple way to discover new DAOs that have already been vetted and match your interests. The Grants tab is invaluable if you are operating a DAO or launching a project in need of funding. But the most important tab, of course, is Open Bounties. For each open bounty, you’ll find a card that provides a description of the requested work (tasks) as well as the stated payment, which can be in any (including the DAOs unique) token.
- Token economy. ERC-20
- Any recent, meaningful updates to the project.
- June 1 2022, Dework raised $5 million led by Paradigm and Pace Capital, with participation from the former chief technology officer at Coinbase, Balaji Srinivasan, and Polygon founder Sandeep Nailwal.
- February 24, 2022, Dework raised an undisclosed amount from Orange DAO.
Bounties are of different types,shape and size of writing. Some bounties are as small as writing a short paragraph for the DAO, while other tasks might entail an entire website redesign. Each posting is tagged with the relevant skills, whether technical or non-technical.
- Roadmap/future applications
- Technical updates
- June 1 2022, Dework raised $5 million in seed round led by Paradigm and Pace Capital, with participation from the former chief technology officer at Coinbase, Balaji Srinivasan, and Polygon founder Sandeep Nailwal.
- Dework launched 10 February 2022
- Community updates or changes
- September 5, 2022, Dework added a new “ Profile’s Featured Work” and “Open Bounties notification” section. “Profile’s Featured Work” section is where you can highlight any kind of project, including already completed Dework tasks. Also released as part of this update, a better way to navigate a contributor’s tasks history and a new Review section to highlight reviews received!. For “Open Bounties Notification” It’s now possible to get alerted via Discord DMs when a new bounty is posted by an organization you follow. To start with, this will be limited to a weekly recap of new open bounties. In the future, we will send a message right when a new bounty is posted. To enable Discord DMs notifications, follow an organization and click “Enable Notifications”! This update is Product Update #15.
About the ecosystem
- Find one or two things the speaker has shared in the past about the future growth, impact of web3?
- How will their project(s) contribute to the evolution and adoption of web3?
- What are some web3 projects/tools that the project integrates to create a more robust ecosystem?
Anything else?
Resources
References
- Relevant project links including discord, website, twitter, podcast, medium, mirror, substack, gitbook, etc.
- Twitter- https://twitter.com/deworkxyz?lang=en
- Discord - discord.gg/hcw7qRcRXb
- Website - dework.xyz
- LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/dework
- Social media details of the guest.
- Twitter - https://twitter.com/_lonis_?lang=en
- LinkedIn - https://se.linkedin.com/in/lonis-resourceful
- Discord - Lonis.eth
Sources
- List every source used to curative the information in this outline. including blogs, tweets, sources of images, websites, youtube videos, interviews, podcasts, books, etc.