opengovr - Tinder Like Swiping App for OpenGov on Polkadot.

A prototype is online at https://govr.vercel.app/
(⚠️ do not use for voting yet ⚠️)

I am posting this to

a) Ask the community for their thoughts

b) Seek funding in case of positive feedback

c) Solicit feature wishes and discuss future development

Motivation

• Make voting more engaging
• Increase governance participation
• Showcase Polkadot technology
• Open source for educational purposes

The idea was initially conceived by Shawn Tabrizi in the Polkadot Forum in 2022. Years have passed since then, and I believe it's time to bring more fun to Polkadot and encourage greater participation in governance, whether through direct voting or delegation.

Features

Implemented

• List most recent proposals
• Connect wallets
• Swipe left to Nay
• Swipe right to Aye
• Responsive design: works great on phones (nova)
• Vote overview slide (last slide)
• Trigger batch transactions for all votes

Planed

• weighing = more fine grained control over the votes
  • on list slide allow users to slide their conviction up for each particular vote
• Advanced proposal info slide
  • proponent popup (identity, identicon, ...)
  • links to subsquare + polkassembly
  • call data as json (power user)
  • time remaining to vote
• Multichain: Polkadot, Kusama, any chain with enabled OpenGov pallets
• Settings Page
  • default vote settings: amount, conviction
  • power user: on / off
  • only show unvoted proposals: default on
• Delegation Nudges: Encourage people to delegate their votes (voting can be time-consuming and motivation may drop)
• Analytics: Track how many people actually use the app, which is essential for evaluation
• I aim to establish a paradigm for leveraging ecosystem technologies, specifically by utilizing useInkathon + polkadot.js, later a fork for reactive-dot + polkadot-api. This initiative will serve as a guide for other dApp developers, providing them with a real-world, open-source use case to follow

Outlook

I wanted to kick things off with the discussion here and the working prototype. In the best practice of starting small I plan, after a running period, to evaluate the success of the app to decide on how to proceed.

If the community likes and uses the tool I plan to build native apps for iOS and Android for an even better UX. Also gather a small team for branding and marketing the app.

Looking forward to your comments.