Furrend Grant Application

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### **Overview - Give a 3-sentence description for your proposal.**
Furrend.xyz strives to become the go-to video sharing app for Web3 pet lovers by leveraging Livepeer's transcoder, IPFS’s storage solution, and Lens’ social graph.

### **The Problem - Describe the problem you are solving.**
Pet content creators are having a hard time making enough money from the content they generate. Despite the sea of video apps in Web2, pet content creators still do not have the right tools to monetize their content or take their content and communities with them if they decide to move to another platform. There are already some video dapps live today, but 1) they do not have a large audience, making it not worth the while for content creators to move over from Web2 video platforms, and 2) UX is often bad and are not designed for non-crypto native content creators.

### **Our Solution - Describe the solution you are proposing and how it will have a positive impact on the Livepeer developer ecosystem.**
We propose to build a new video app that is exclusively built for pet-lovers. We will start with short videos and later on add live streaming leveraging Livepeer’s transcoder. We have a target list and plan to onboard the first batch of pet content creators with our MVP.

We plan to have one of the best Web3 onboarding processes to make it very easy and accessible for Web 2 users to be onboarded to Web3, expanding the number of users of Livepeer.

We plan to add live streaming, token gated contents, video NFT minting all be based off Livepeer’s solutions and would be a great showcase for future developers to understand the scope of things they are empowered to do by Livepeer.

We also have a list of features we plan to roll out and many are not supported by Livepeer today. We would like to help to expand the existing product suite of Livepeer and help to grow the Livepeer developer ecosystem, awareness, and adoption further.

Eventually if necessary for the sake of performance, we might run our own Livepeer node.

### **How does it work**


### **Product Roadmap - Describe the scope of the project including a 1.5-month timeline and milestones.**

Phase 1: Launch the MVP. Integrating with Livepeer API for transcoding, use IPFS and Arweave for storage and integrating the new feature of minting video for NFTs from Livepeer.
Timeline: Before the end of February.

Phase 2: Add living streaming to the main app with token gated channels.
Timeline: before the second week of April 2023.

Phase 3: Launching the alpha version of the product. Build a mobile native app.
Timeline: before the end of May.

### **Funding Request - Please estimate hours spent on the project based on the above and how much funding you will need.**
Estimated time for the project: 5 people, 3 developers plus 2 product managers, for 4 months.
Grant ask: $50k.

### **Team - Describe why you are the right team with the capability to build this.**
Holly82 - Lead developer. Ex-staff engineer of IBM, has been building products for more than 10 years. Experience in building big data platforms on the cloud to complex, low-latency apps for fintech unicorns.

B3lla - Fullstack developer. Experience in both web2 development and solidity. Previous experience in building fintech and medtech products.

Bernadette - Fullstack developer. Experience in web2 and web3 development. Worked on DeFi and Lens previously.

Jun - PM, marketing, operations, and community.

Han - PM, growth and partnership.

### **Contact Us - Additional Information**
hi@furrend.xyz

The issue is a grant proposal for a pet-focused video app, with a roadmap covering Livepeer integration, IPFS and Arweave storage, live streaming, token-gated channels, video NFTs, and a mobile app. Review the proposal and its milestones first; completion is not defined as a specific repository change, test, or file.

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