It’s A Wrap: Polygon Fellowship Class of 2022

It has been an amazing experience to be a part of the Polygon Fellowship and gain access to wonderful mentors who guided me through the entire journey. Starting from just a brief idea to building the complete MVP live on testnet, it wouldn’t have been possible without such an atmosphere.

Idea

Tools like Canva, Figma and Adobe XD have become extremely popular recently as they empower novice users to express their creativity. They have become the standard tools for GenZ content creators by providing a plethora of pre-built templates that could be mixed-and-matched in ingenious ways.

This project intended to become a similar tool for web3 audiences where people could browse through a vast library of such templates minted as NFTs and use them to power their creations in a decentralized manner. The creators of the ingredient NFTs would automatically be attributed respective shares whenever the artwork is sold on the platform.
This would foster a creator economy that flourishes without the need of a central authority.

Key milestones

It, initially, started with the explorations of artistic design within a website. Soon, the need for an IPFS storage solution was realised, leading to multiple POCs with Pinata, Arweave, etc finally leading me to NFT.storage which seemed to be the easiest solution to create NFTs from the SVG artwork created on the website.

Now, it was time to integrate Graph Protocol which primarily contributed to the scalability of the application. Its ability to parse IPFS JSON and provide a text-based search made sure that the application was ready for Web2 users as well.

Result

With the integration of these technologies, there was no turning back. Soon, I was able to complete the MVP that’s live at https://splash.neoquest.xyz/