Edit 2014-02-10I've made some exciting changes to Coindeo. Coindeo now allows you to challenge other people on Twitter to create videos for (crowdfunded) bitcoin. Let's say you want to challenge your friend to make a video of himself shaving his head. You create a challenge bounty and you and anyone else can fund the bounty. It's up to your friend to decide whether or not he will accept the challenge and for how much. Obviously, the more more funding that goes into the bounty the greater the incentive for your friend to shave his head.
A historical example of how this platform could have been used is for the Ice Bucket challenge where people challenged celebrities to dump a bucket of ice water on their heads for charity. Coindeo's new challenge bounty allows you to challenge someone to make a video and redirect the payment to a third party, such as a charity. I think this is an awesome feature and will be interesting to see how people decide what is worth their time to create a video for charity.
All of the original gaming video bounty features are still present and have been renamed to "self-created" bounties.
Similar to the last round, I'll be contributing 0.02 BTC to new challenge bounties (first 20 unique recipients only). Note, the recipient of the funds must have a Twitter account with activity more than 60 days ago. The How To has been updated and is still located at
https://www.coindeo.com/howto. Or use the Tweet builder at
https://www.coindeo.com/builder.
As usual, any feedback is appreciated.
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OPHi All,
I've spent the last few months working on a project that I think could help with Bitcoin adoption. It's essentially a micro crowdfunding platform for gamers, game casters, and people that like to watch game play. Since gaming is a multi-billion dollar international industry and watching "e-sports" is on the rise (e.g. twitch.tv), I think there is great potential for this project.
I believe this project works regardless of Bitcoin use — it's a great space even for traditional payment systems/currencies. In fact, friends have told me that I should not focus on Bitcoin use, but should accept traditional forms of payment. That is something I may do in the future, but for now this project is an experiment to see if the idea is viable.
What is Coindeo?
Coindeo is a crowdfunding platform that enables you to receive up-front payments for producing video content. With Coindeo, you specify a minimum funding target then let your fans fund your video creation. Instead of waiting for a slow trickle of video advertising payments you get paid in full shortly after your video is uploaded. The platform helps you partner with your Twitter followers (and other fans) so you can deliver quality content without needing to worry about the cost benefits of creating content that your fans won't watch.
Users tweet commands at @coindeobot to set up bounties (Eventually, I'll have a nice UI to help users craft commands). By using Twitter, users let their followers know that a bounty has been created and can go to Coindeo's website to request a deposit address to fund the bounty.
Coindeo does not charge a fee on the bounty (at least not currently). However, when users upload a video, they grant Coindeo all rights on the video and agree to let Coindeo receive ad revenue from the video.
More details about Coindeo and how to use it can be found at:
https://www.coindeo.com/abouthttps://www.coindeo.com/howto At the moment, I've put the platform on
TestNet for alpha testing and would love to get any feedback about it. Admittedly, I've spent most of my time on the backend, so the frontend/UI is not really polished (lots of raw data). My initial goal is to focus on stability and robustness before opening up to a broader audience. So please don’t be too harsh with your critique of the UI
I know there is a lot to be desired on that front.
No new account creation or email address is needed to use the platform. Simply using your existing Twitter account to tweet at @coindeobot and use
https://www.coindeo.com to browse bounties and get deposit addresses.
Feel free to send
info@coindeo.com an email if you have any questions or would like more info.
Thanks!
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