The Stack App

The Stack App

Inspiration

Love for the video games inspired me to start this project, sometimes I still find time to enjoy some of the games, both classic and modern ones. Some guys now develop their own video games and I wish to build an app that would enable Indie Game Devs to explore alternative ways to fund their projects and engage fans with the work they do.

What it does

The Stack App provides the gaming community with tools to collect funds for projects, and offers more ways for community engagement, and sharing content, where game assets, e.g. characters, consumables, weapons, etc., and different other things that are part of a video game project, can be converted to NFTs. The platform supports the gaming communities with tools like bots, adapting content for sharing on socials. Creates more ways to monetize both the content and the experience, with rewards for content creators created by the creators. The app also has unlockables that the user can purchase to enhance the experience, e.g. decorate the page with links shared with the community.

Project Features

Login with socials
Mint NFTs on XRP Ledger
Create/Cancel NFT offers on XRP Ledger
Create Pledge Rewards for crowdfunding campaigns from NFTs
Image stored purely on XRP Ledger via NFTs
Digital items uploaded to the Stack App can be converted to Awards, for others to reward the creators for the content
The app works with a token created on XRP Ledger
The amounts awarded via rewards are distributed between the awardee, the creator, and the Stack App in tokens created on XRP Ledger
NFTs/digital items/artworks are prepared on the app to be shared on socials with respective markup
Users can setup bots for the content to be shared instantaneously with their community
App lets users also create a page to store different links to other resources, the page e.g. yum.run/yourUserName with all your links
Users can create crowdfunding campaigns
The app has a store where decorative page enhancements can be purchased for a token created on XRP Ledger
The app supports the dimmed theme, that adapts to user device settings
The app lets the user check their current balance of token created on XRP Ledger via the app directly by requesting the Ledger
XUMM app integration

How we built it

It took some time to get a grasp of nodejs and nextjs to be able to create something interactive enough for it to be not only useful but also fun. Some previous knowledge helped to jump-start the project, not perfectly with nodejs and nextjs. Using Wordpress for data administration in the database and the nodejs and nextjs used as an interactive front-end app.

Challenges we ran into

The greatest challenge so far is to learn new things and approaches along the way and learn how to properly apply them, it goes not only for development but also other adjacent activities that come along the way.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

A fun concept for the app to support the idea. Also, the newly created small demo app showcases the concept of the bigger idea in just a few lines of code and is fairly compact. Also, the start of using GitHub, to be honest, helped a lot seeing the result of contributions even if a pause was needed, when getting back you see how far you had come. As well as the creation of a microeconomy on the app.