# Grant Application - Freedit the decentralized reddit **URL:** \ **Category:** Grant Applications\ **Created:** [September 13, 2021, 4:11am UTC](https://archiveforum.akash.network/t/grant-application-freedit-the-decentralized-reddit/2724 "2021-09-13T04:11:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mjollnir14](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/archiveforum.akash.network/mjollnir14/32/2590_2.png) [@mjollnir14](https://archiveforum.akash.network/u/mjollnir14)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2021, 4:11am UTC](https://archiveforum.akash.network/t/grant-application-freedit-the-decentralized-reddit/2724/1 "2021-09-13T04:11:17Z")
## Project Title: Freedit - Decentralized reddit ## Contact: **2. Email Address:** benoit@mindcraft.be **3. Akash Wallet Address:** akash1gkv2ew93824cquhq5utwcq0udmsaw4qa3vxu30 **4. Akashian URI:** **5. Time Zone:** GMT+6 **6. Language:** English, Vue2, SQL, ternary ## Social Networks **7. Akash Forum Username:** mjollnir14 **8. Discord Username:** Brouettski#7829 **9. Github Username:** mjollnir14 **10. Twitter Handle:** / **11. LinkedIn:** / **12. Website:** / **13. Blog:** / # Experience: **14. Are you a developer or software engineer?** I’m ranging from sys admin to frontend dev as a hobby **15. Are you currently involved in Akash’s Discord developer community channel? (discord.akash.network)** I’m on the discord **16. Have you deployed on Akash’s Mainnet or Testnet? (docs.akash.network)** Mainnet **17. Do you have other team members?** No **18. Are you looking for additional team members?** Yes, I will need help from frontend dev **19. Are you interested in working on Akash full-time?** I wish I had time to work on such a great project **20. What Cloud hosting services do you currently use? (Amazon/Google/Microsoft)** AWS **21. How much do you pay per month for Cloud services / hosting?** $15 **22. How did you hear about this program?** reddit # Product Vision: \*\*23. What is your project? \*\* Decentralize reddit on Akash+Filebase. Scraping the actual content from reddit and allowing people to comment on the new version. People will also be able to create new communities/subs I am developing a PoC app. Coded in Vue2/Nuxt as a standalone app for Android/iOS but also broswable by all modern browsers **24. What is the problem you will solve?** Allow minorities or other groups with freespeech issues on current social network to express themselves **25. What are your goals?** Giving back freedom to people. Have a place where all political views can express freely, with no intervention from any government or other oppressive entity **26. What impact will this project have on the Akash developer community?** I hope this project will seed other ideas to developers and bring more people to the community **27. Who will use your project when it’s complete?** **28. Will you monetize your project?** It might get monetized to cover infrastructure expenses or having a donation address but I do this as an ethical goal. My profit will be the liberation of ideas **29. Will you open source your project?** Yes. Anybody can join and improve it. # Product Leadership / Drive: **30. Tell us about yourself, your passion, your values** Freedom, freespeech, opensource, mechanics, travel, nature **31. What’s your aspiration for blockchain technology?** It will definitely change the world. As much as digitalization of money changed the world in the previous decades, if not much. **32. If you had $1 million in grant funding what would you do?** Develop decentralized clones inspired by other social platforms (twitter, pinterest..) **33. Who will benefit most from your project?** People frustrated by censorship and sharing their views in small communities. We could reunite again. Reddit was very libertarian in its inception **34. How will you help grow the Akash community?** As I will promote the project on reddit and other places, I hope this project will attract more dev on Akash to develop other solutions **35. How will you make Akash approachable to developers?** Documenting how I created my project **36. How do you think Akash should improve?** More marketing? not sure about this question # Product Execution: **37. How would you utilize the grant funding?** **38. Have you already started this work?** Yes, scraping is done. DB is done but needs refactoring.. frontend not started yet **39. Do you have a GitHub or website for your project?** Not yet **40. How will this task be accomplished?** Which task? **41. How would you break this work up into 3 or 4 phases / milestones?** Scraping Backend Frontend Adding features like linking your reddit credential to the new app, auto-retrieveing the subs you are in and decentralize them in the Akash/Filebase networks. The more people join, the more this new version of reddit will be decentralized **42. How many months of work will this project require?** One **43. What’s the expected amount of funding required for your project?** $2000 to $4000 # Product Progress: **44. Will you open source your project?** Yes **45. How do you plan to share your work with the community once complete?** Discord + reddit. Might do some marketing ($$ ?) **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?** Not yet # 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?** Yes