Polkadot Roots app

App for event management and simple user onboarding during meetups

This app was developed during the Polkadot Hackathon in Berlin during Web3 summit.

The development of this app still continues.

Overview

When organizing local Polkadot meetups, many attendees hear about Polkadot for the first time. This app could be the first exposure to them.

.MEMO is a great way to memorize the meetup and mint the NFT to keep this memory forever. However, you need a wallet capable of owning that .MEMO NFT. Although many existing mobile wallets can own and display NFTs, the claiming process for .MEMO is very lengthy and it usually takes up to 5 minutes to onboard a new user into Polkadot ecosystem in this way.

Daniel Vaculík invented a new mechanism for onboarding new users to Polkadot ecosystem during events. Instead of offering free drinks during meetups, he lets them pay for it. But after they receive a receipt, they can ask for a cash-back in DOT. For newcomers, this process is also very complicated and many times they rather pay for the drinks themselves and do not ask for DOT cash-back afterwards. This is a missed opportunity to onboard a new person into Polkadot ecosystem. This app tries to simplify this process as much as possible.

Keeping in contact with newcomers is also important. This app will help with the notifications about other upcoming events and meetups that they can attend.