Proposal “Development_Team“ (Closed)Back
| Title: | Dash Development Team/ Merchant Wallet(iOS) |
| Owner: | Mizzymax |
| One-time payment: | 85 DASH (2560 USD) |
| Completed payments: | no payments occurred yet (1 month remaining) |
| Payment start/end: | 2017-05-20 / 2017-06-19 (added on 2017-05-12) |
| Final voting deadline: | in passed |
| Votes: | 267 Yes / 250 No / 177 Abstain |
Proposal description
Clarification: this is a proposal to create a free no fee product for merchants to accept Dash (Wallet on iOS) there is another merchant proposal integrating into a merchant service device (Here).
I find this oddly similar to the 2 ripple gateways as Evan commented on (Here) I just wanted to have you all keep this in mind when making your decision. any questions at all feel free to ask I will answer all of them.
Development Team (25 Dash)
As the development team we are contractors for Dash. We will outreach to independent freelance developers/ small teams that would normally not have the opportunity to take on such task of developing for us on projects other then Core. We will be laying out the ground work for the developers and when we see all the great qualities of a team forming we will encourage them to put in a proposal for themselves. we hope this kickstarts Dash Development and open source products.
I plan to start many different ventures with this as Dash can go into any market it wants to. Dash Core team is doing great wonders working on evolution. We hope we can spark some great talent to do great things for us at dash, and end up with great products for you.

Our First Task (Merchant wallet)
We plan to take on Merchant Services and offer extremely better service with Ease of use, Speed, User friendly service , Rewards for customers , and no fees(Currently 3.25% fee of purchase every time someone swipes their card. CRAZY!)
With funding a merchant wallet, this will cut out any middle man service needed for merchants to accept Dash. simply all they will need to do is download an app rather then sourcing 3rd party materials like they would need to now to accept cryptocurrency.
Fun Fact- Walmart
Merchant Wallet Development (50 Dash)
I have reached out to a small team of developers ready to take on the task of creating a wallet simply meant for merchants and merchants only. Our first products features will include a QR code generator (for those who don't know, this is a system where a price is input by the merchant and a QR code is generated. when the QR code is scanned the amount they the merchant is asking for will appear in the send bar, the user will just need to scan the code and validate the payment and hit send.) along with the simple works behind the wallet such as back up phrases and codes for the merchant to access personal funds.
In the future we plan to create an "auto pay program" for the merchant, this program will allow merchants who receive funds to automatically transfer the funds to another wallet. this is a safety precaution as you can imagine its like customers being able to hold your wallet with your funds inside of it. this way there will be no worry of loss of funds that way. We plan on starting development on iOS so merchants could use an iPad to accept payments. More info
(Obviously this wallet will be Dash exclusive)
No Longer needed- (Content Creation (20 Dash)
I have reached out to a web developer who would create a website for us. This website will be dedicated for information meant for Merchants the “How to” the “Why” the “benefits” will all be included on the site. Along with this site comes content that will need to be created, I have a friend of mine that is willing to create short videos to explain the benefits of using Dash for merchants. )
Update 5/17/17: Dash Force has just released that they will be creating a website DiscoverDash.com for merchants to see how to get into Dash and the merchants who are accepting Dash. This obviously nullifies this sector of my proposal so I will be distributing all of the 20 Dash to go into Merchant Wallet Development. I'm glad Dash Force has taken the initiative and saw the need for its development, thank you.
Our Price (85 Dash Total)
50 Dash for merchant wallet development
25 Dash for the Development Team
10 Dash proposal fee (I double spent on proposal and lost my 5 dash without making a proposal, if anyone knows how to get the 5 dash refunded let me know. if I get it back il add it to the proposal funding)
Thank you, any questions I would be more then willing to answer them.
I find this oddly similar to the 2 ripple gateways as Evan commented on (Here) I just wanted to have you all keep this in mind when making your decision. any questions at all feel free to ask I will answer all of them.
Development Team (25 Dash)
As the development team we are contractors for Dash. We will outreach to independent freelance developers/ small teams that would normally not have the opportunity to take on such task of developing for us on projects other then Core. We will be laying out the ground work for the developers and when we see all the great qualities of a team forming we will encourage them to put in a proposal for themselves. we hope this kickstarts Dash Development and open source products.
I plan to start many different ventures with this as Dash can go into any market it wants to. Dash Core team is doing great wonders working on evolution. We hope we can spark some great talent to do great things for us at dash, and end up with great products for you.

Our First Task (Merchant wallet)
We plan to take on Merchant Services and offer extremely better service with Ease of use, Speed, User friendly service , Rewards for customers , and no fees(Currently 3.25% fee of purchase every time someone swipes their card. CRAZY!)
With funding a merchant wallet, this will cut out any middle man service needed for merchants to accept Dash. simply all they will need to do is download an app rather then sourcing 3rd party materials like they would need to now to accept cryptocurrency.
Fun Fact- Walmart
Merchant Wallet Development (50 Dash)
I have reached out to a small team of developers ready to take on the task of creating a wallet simply meant for merchants and merchants only. Our first products features will include a QR code generator (for those who don't know, this is a system where a price is input by the merchant and a QR code is generated. when the QR code is scanned the amount they the merchant is asking for will appear in the send bar, the user will just need to scan the code and validate the payment and hit send.) along with the simple works behind the wallet such as back up phrases and codes for the merchant to access personal funds.
In the future we plan to create an "auto pay program" for the merchant, this program will allow merchants who receive funds to automatically transfer the funds to another wallet. this is a safety precaution as you can imagine its like customers being able to hold your wallet with your funds inside of it. this way there will be no worry of loss of funds that way. We plan on starting development on iOS so merchants could use an iPad to accept payments. More info
(Obviously this wallet will be Dash exclusive)
No Longer needed- (Content Creation (20 Dash)
I have reached out to a web developer who would create a website for us. This website will be dedicated for information meant for Merchants the “How to” the “Why” the “benefits” will all be included on the site. Along with this site comes content that will need to be created, I have a friend of mine that is willing to create short videos to explain the benefits of using Dash for merchants. )
Update 5/17/17: Dash Force has just released that they will be creating a website DiscoverDash.com for merchants to see how to get into Dash and the merchants who are accepting Dash. This obviously nullifies this sector of my proposal so I will be distributing all of the 20 Dash to go into Merchant Wallet Development. I'm glad Dash Force has taken the initiative and saw the need for its development, thank you.
Our Price (85 Dash Total)
50 Dash for merchant wallet development
25 Dash for the Development Team
10 Dash proposal fee (I double spent on proposal and lost my 5 dash without making a proposal, if anyone knows how to get the 5 dash refunded let me know. if I get it back il add it to the proposal funding)
Thank you, any questions I would be more then willing to answer them.
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1. They will download an app. That's ok. But where are they going to install it?
2. How is it possible to make a clear accounting and taxation through you app?
3. Could you, please, give us some price, as if we were a merchants and decided to implement your system? At least approximately.
We will not have an accounting structure set up yet for the wallet but in future updates we plan to make it very clear and simple for the merchant to account for his gains/losses.
Currently we are asking for 30 Dash just to start Development and create a prototype, we estimate the client will be finished around 12k-15k with the features Iv mentioned.
It sounds like you haven't nailed your niche. Bricks and mortar? With staff to train, or sole owner/operator? How do they track into cashflow? Or stock shrinkage? What benefit do they get from using Dash? A few % fees isn't worth it if they're waiting for chicken-and-egg consumer adoption.
I'm voting no for as this doesn't seem sufficiently well worked out. The idea in principle is fine, but it needs more merchant-side/business-side input imo.
Related, have you got any merchants into crypto previously? Lots of lessons to be learned cheaply from just doing that with say jaxx wallet, no need to fund dev to learn where the merchants' pain points are.
Think of it like there's a guy who has been accepting bitcoin as payment for the past 2 years and the other fiat. The one who accepts bitcoin is richer just because he accepts it.
Think about that 10,000 bitcoin pizza that's worth sooo much now haha
Also with training, think of it like Cryptocurrency now. Did someone train you to buy crypto? I Was thinking this could be a project that is easy for merchants to understand (like evolution is easy for consumers to understand)
Mass adoption for crypto won't happen unless the merchant is interested in crypto. Plain and simple. We could have easily made a system for people to use euros/dollars via credit card world wide but it's not in the interest of the merchant. We can't try to jam ourselves into the current system that isn't set up to accept crypto, we need to make our own system and as merchants see the value they start to switch over.
With Website development it will take about 2 weeks for it to be completed and in that time we would have the content created for it by then for the site. Any merchant who has any questions of how to accept Dash will need to look no further then our website.
As for the merchant wallet, we plan to start basic development and have a basic prototype ready within a 1 month- 1month and a half is the estimated time the team gave me.
As for the development team, they plan to reach out to other teams to create projects for us. Other projects will be such as web browser blockchain based like maidsafe, possibly a trading platform like ripple etc. (I will be asking the community which way they feel is a right way to move when we get to that stage) as for getting teams on board personally just to find the team I did I called 9 different developers/teams and finally had interest by the 9th one. It is a job for sure, it's not a stable payment for people and a lot are not willing to take Cryptocurrency as payment. Also it's a huge turn off when you say you don't know if you have the funds to even pay them. But if we become larger and more accepted it will be slightly easier to gain these clients. So we hope to bring a more solid team possibly 5-6 hopefully to start development on our next project along with possibly being able to add 2 more people to the merchant wallet development (that's our goals). I think of it like we are the marketing team on the business end of Dash.
I hope I answered your questions, feel free to ask for specifics for clearification if needed
First of all I do think its a good idea to have external teams working on projects, especially once evolution is out in full. Creating DAPI's that work well within the DASH eco system are plus, and are no treat or can not damage the core software. The ones that work out well should even be listed as trusted software on Dash.org or be given a badge of trust or something similar.
But has it stance, I have no faith I your ability to deliver.
This is why:
1) MNO's Need to be able to asses your ability to deliver aka we need some: CV+portfolio (this should could of
2) This types of projects require some sort "plan of action" (you have to make one anyways so why not include it straight away)
3) Use for reading what your writing here, you don't have really tight plan how to instruct and communicate with people your planning to hire.
Having some experience with hiring external 3th party's myself, I can honestly say, it not an easy task to get things done this way, especially because there will be miscommunication, due to fact you will be dealing with new people, and even do you both may be professional, there are always going to be misinterpretations, this misinterpretations go away, when you start to know each-other better.
Question:
Why would you want to kick-start external teams to start working for DASH?
Your plan is to be project-manager here, but if you remove yourself, than how can you profit again from further projects ?
The reason I feel it is important to kick start external teams is I see the only route we should be going down is the open source products route. With teams that look at us as a constant revenue stream they will continue to try to do the best job they can to receive funding. This will create a competitive market adding more teams into play.
Also our businesses we fund almost always goes out the window because it's a "1 and done" type of proposal, they don't expect another proposal to come so they don't really care to get the job done, so I felt this would change our path from funding those proposals to these as I saw it as a problem for us and think this is the solution.
Me not taking total profit from these teams is part of the great grand scheme. I just want to start Development happening in this space, why should I take a cut if they could run on their own. I am Also not here to take huge profits, my cut after this is only 7 Dash lol. after funding everyone and everything I only took a small amount so I could prove myself the first time around and get stuff done so I can gladly get accepted for other projects.
Because based on that is how these types of projects can judged, if they should continue ahead or not.
What is your background that you are qualified to run these types of projects ?
We plan to create a calculator system where the merchant can enter the amount (in Dash or in dollars options) and once the information is entered a QR code is shown for customer to pay. When a transaction is confirmed we plan to implement a ringtone feature for the merchant to verify it is completed along with a side bar telling the merchant.
When in this calculator mode for safety precautions we have decided the only way to exit this mode the user will need to put in a 4 digit pin to access the main wallet. As well as other saftey measures to access funds codes can be put in to send funds and even just to look at the amount of funds.
Saftey is our number one priority, the last thing we want is lost trust in an unsafe wallet. That's why I hope to implement the auto pay feature to a personal wallet as soon as possible for safe care free transactions for merchants to take place. for development reasons we need to make it a wallet so that the system can confirm that the transaction has went through. But when auto pay is implement it will be more of a payment gateway rather then an actual wallet. Merchants will have a lot less worries of anything happening when funds are transferred to a private wallet. this will prevent hackers and theifs from trying to attempt/steal funds.
The language for now only English but as more demand comes about, it will accept other languages.
I hope I clearified the subject for you, any more questions feel free to ask
Is doing great don't get me wrong, but this will spark other teams to come into play as well to work on other specified projects.
@GuerraDiValute
You can not get demo's for free, these are external party's MizzyMax want to contact for paid projects, so no freebies
I will keep an open mind about this and follow the comments, before making a decission on how to vote.