Developer Award Application
Proposal:
Contact:
1. First & Last Name: Aldin Šišić
2. Email Address: aldin.sisic@protonmail.com
3. Akash Wallet Address: akash1k4w6y49n4svqd0wf2yw9gmscjplj9syqvuyd0u
4. Akashian URI: Akash Community - Akash Developer Community
5. Time Zone: GMT+1
6. Language: Bosnian / English
Social Networks
7. Discord Username: aldin#2390
8. Discourse Username:
9. Github: @adnssc
10. Twitter: @adnssc
11. LinkedIn:
12. Website:
13. Blog:
Experience:
14. Are you a developer or software engineer?
Yes.
15. Are you currently involved in Akash’s Discord developer community channel? (discord.akash.network)
Yes.
16. Have you deployed on Akash’s Mainnet or Testnet? (docs.akash.network)
Yes.
17. Do you have other team members?
Yes.
18. Are you looking for additional team members?
Not really, I just need small help on certain topics which discord server will be enough for 
19. Are you interested in working on Akash full-time? Akash is hiring engineers and contractors. Learn more here: Careers | Akash Network
Yes, will look into it!
20. What Cloud hosting services do you currently use? (Amazon/Google/Microsoft)
I don’t use any.
21. How much do you pay per month for Cloud services / hosting?
22. How did you hear about this program?
From Golem Network discord server.
Product Vision:
23. What is your project?
Hosting Game Servers on Akash Network.
24. What is the problem you will solve?
There is no solution for hosting a game server on Akash Network without doing it on your own, so a web application guiding you through that process + automatic deployment of the Game Server on Akash Network based on users needs will bring more traffic and users to network.
25. What are your goals?
- Learn the process of deploying via code on Akash
- Create a guide page where by going through questions you can choose all options needed for the server to automatically run on Akash.
- Using web3.js add payments for those servers.
- Finally a fully working web application hosting many kinds of Game Servers (for beta testing planning only Minecraft)
26. What impact will this project have on the Akash developer community?
Depends how good project is received, if it gets a lot of traffic from outside sources of people wanting to host Game Servers, and its cheap, I see a lot of potential.
27. Who will use your project when it’s complete?
People who need Game Server for themselves, either that be a Minecraft server to play with friends, or any other game, or hosting a game server for communities like hypixel and making passive income.
28. Will you monetize your project?
I planned having a 10/20% charge on each payment user does on my web app, so if deployment on Akash Network costs 1 AKT, it would be 1.1 AKT for example.
But I also had in mind a free tier of servers for users with low needs, but this would need to be sponsored by Akash.
29. Will you open source your project?
Yes of course.
Product Leadership / Drive:
30. Tell us about yourself, your passion, your values
Cryptocurrency, blockchain, web3 is really interesting to me so this project will be my first bigger project (after SkyChat) utilizing all aspects of web3.
31. What’s your aspiration for blockchain technology?
To learn more about it, its so complex and difficult and best way to learn is to get deeper into it, and blockchain being future this is personally something I want to learn.
32. If you had $1 million in grant funding what would you do?
I think all functionality of my project can be done with way less funding, and its scalable because its running servers on Akash Network, so after funding free tier servers, other things could be a validator node and starting more projects in ecosystem.
33. Who will benefit most from your project?
Anyone needing a Game Server will benefit from simplicity and hopefully being cheaper then competitors, and also Akash Network with streams on new users and traffic to it.
34. How will you help grow the Akash community?
By brining “gaming” community to this web3 world and Akash Network.
35. How will you make Akash approachable to developers?
Project is open source so after github repository, documentation/videos I’m also here to give out support to anyone needing it
36. How do you think Akash should improve?
Simpler documentation and easier deployment, that’s turning off many users because they give up on trying to deploy something, with that web apps like mine that help the grow the project are helpful as well.
Product Execution:
37. How would you utilize the grant funding?
There is cost for design/frontend, then AKT being locked up for each deployment is something I don’t want users to have to do, so funding is needed there also.
38. Have you already started this work?
Yes.
39. Do you have a GitHub or website for your project?
Design is done, and frontend is just getting started to come in existence, I will update this with github link after enough is done.
40. How will this task be accomplished?
Already in process.
41. How would you break this work up into 3 or 4 phases / milestones?
Milestone 1: Completed design and frontend work
Milestone 2: Creating a guide page where user inputs data for server configuration
Milestone 3: Implementing web3.js for connecting wallets and payments for servers
Milestone 4: Figuring out deployment via code to Akash Network
Milestone 5: Fully working web applications where users can easily go through process of configuring servers via UI/UX, and automatic deployments on Akash Network
42. How many months of work will this project require?
Until April/May so around 2/3 months.
43. What’s the expected amount of funding required for your project?
Covering my costs is around $1000, and anything above that to support my work is appreciated.
Product Progress:
44. Will you open source your project?
Yes.
45. How do you plan to share your work with the community once complete?
Weekly updates on forum/discord, and answering questions on both platforms.
46. Will you report your progress to the community every month?
Yes.
47. Do you have any screenshots, videos, or other context you can share?
Yes, I can share design in figma.
Developer Associations:
48. Are you associated with any accelerators, incubators, venture capital firms, or startup funds?
No.
49. Are you associated with any startup communities?
No.
50. Are you associated with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)?
No.
51. Are you associated with any open source projects?
No.
52. Are you associated with any of the Akash Network core team members?
No.
Legalese:
53. Are you a resident of, citizen, or located in a geographic area that is subject to UN, US, EU, Swiss or any other sovereign country sanctions or embargoes?
No.
54. Are you over the age of 18?
I’m not, turned 17 years old.