To iterate on your idea, I would like to share what we have brainstormed around this topic a while ago within the PRO Delegators’ team.
We were thinking about the user retention in the Cosmos and the enormous difficulty we were facing to build a reputation in this ecosystem. This task can be very challenging and disturbing, and our team has gone through all of this, so we are in a good position to share our experience, and most importantly the solutions we would propose to remedy this. Hopefully we can improve and even avoid this painful path to the new and forthcoming entrants.
Long story short, it took us an entire year to build a reputation, constant hard work facing mere indifference. This wasn’t just painful to achieve all this during a violent bear market, it was depressing to see that most of the existing actors were not incline to welcome new users without a solid history of developer contribution to the ecosystem. To be frank, entering Cosmos for us seemed a bit like being a black family entering a small rural city, people either judge you or ignore you.
A Talent Platform for Cosmos:
To avoid this, we brainstormed trying to find potential solutions to avoid falling into these traps which are mostly unconscious. Our best finding is that we need somewhat of a “talent platform” for Cosmos.
A place where contributors can register, share a resume or their github, assign tags defining their profile, keywords corresponding to their work, etc. This platform should integrate contact features to allow users to quickly interact with each other. This way we think the ecosystem will be able to foster collaboration. It may solve some of the issues we face today, requiring to meet with the right persons to be oriented correctly. With such platform, newcomers could better find their place in this ecosystem of diverse participants which complexity is only going to grow exponentially if we succeed.
We think the Interchain Foundation is the most suited entity to build such platform and therefore we are curious to engage with @Syed to have some feedback on this idea. If you’re interested, we’ll be happy to share the initial design we have.
Thanks for reading!
Govmos.
