Prop 349: Signal proposal for the council to put dapps as the first priority

Hi all, BlockCreators here.

As you may be aware, the council system has been in place a considerable amount of time. However, it has not lifted the price of the Juno token. This is because the confidence in the Juno project has not been restored in the eyes of our community and collective investors.

The reason for this is because the top priority has not been on building dapps, but to instead focus on partnerships, marketing and hiring for chain feature upgrades, which has been tried countless times with no measurable success.

Marketing can not work without dapps to showcase. Chain features are worthless without dapps to use them. Partnerships right now are questionable at best, generally leading to extracting value from our token holders.

This proposal is so the community can vote to urge the council to put hiring a dapp developer and focusing on building dapps as the top priority.

The chosen dapp to be built should be voted on by the community.

Now you might ask, what do I know about dapps? Well I certainly can’t code them, but I’ve come up with and managed the creation of two dapps so far, one because I am friends and worked closely with the dev, and the other because I paid them from my own pocket. There was many other dapps that I came up with where I did not get the support to make them a priority.

One of these previous stated dapp ideas was nopixels.io, and it has been successful with bringing the community together. With the help of the amazing developer camel, it was launched and garnered a great amount of interaction, visibility and transactions for our ecosystem.

Another was the OTC platform developed by LeTurt, which spurred the emergence of other dapps in the same vein. This helped open up possibilities for OTC trades that were near impossible before.

We need to hire a dapp developer to build dapps for the community, only then will other dapp developers see that the chain is active and bring their own dapps.

All the developers I’ve encountered since I founded Juno have expressed to me the same sentiment… “Why aren’t you guys focusing on dapps”. And there’s nothing I can say to that because I agree with them.

However my ideas were ignored by default by the majority of Core 1 as they were focused on doing feature upgrades and working on the old dexs along with daodao. I can only assume because the majority of Core 1 had a background in chain development.

As for the council system, I’ve been told directly to not put up any proposals without coming to them first. I’ve begged them to focus on dapps, but time after time it has fallen on deaf ears. So again, I come to the community.

I have put my dapp idea up as a separate proposal, in which all revenue from the dapp will be sent to the community pool. This proposal is not dependent on that dapp idea, but it's just an option that I think would generate interest from outside communities, and give our own community something to join together and engage with.

This dapp would provide the Juno network with a tutorial dapp for new developers to follow along with, a unique engaging social game for users, and a product with a much faster development cycle so we can focus on creating more dapps after this.

Hopefully others in the community will also provide their own options & ideas. You can see it here:

https://commonwealth.im/juno/discussion/16718-farmville-style-dapp-tutorial-dapp-for-juno

We need to show that Juno is alive, has a vision and that dapps are being built. Only then will investors return.