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Tape (formerly Lenstube)

$34,639.76 crowdfunded from 15879 people

$34,576.02 received from matching pools

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Develop a decentralized, censorship-resistant social media platform for content creators to own their videos and monetize through NFTs, tips, and memberships with zero gas fees on Polygon.

Talk, Amplify, Post, Explore.

Decentralized media-sharing social media platform, built using Lens protocol. 🌿

Lenstube lives in the Polygon network so users can interact with dApp seamlessly with zero gas fees, the app is powered by Lens Protocol a decentralized social graph built by Aave companies 👻

THE PROBLEM

Currently, on web2 media platforms, creators have a lot of problems like privacy, censorship, and more. Especially for web3 content creators, the channels got banned and de-platformed without warning or any justification. Creators should have a platform where they can own their content and have a direct connection with their subscribers or members.

SOLUTION

We aimed to develop a decentralized media-sharing app, where content creators own their video content. By storing videos permanently in Arweave and the metadata stored permanently on-chain, no one can restrict users from creating content of their choice. Creators can always monetize their content with various means like nft modules and tips.

FEATURES

  • 📺 Create profiles.
  • 📀 Publish any video content or NFTs.
  • 🔨 Collect video as NFT.
  • 🪞 Mirror and share videos across Lens Dapps.
  • 💰 Set membership fees to your channel.
  • 🔔 Notifications about new members, comments, mirrors, and mints.
  • 💲 Customize who can collect your video and associated fees.
  • ❤️ Support any creator by sending a Tip.
  • 👍 Like and comment on videos.
  • 🎥 Short videos called Bytes
  • 🌿 Watch later and recently watched videos library.
  • 🏷 Video Categories
  • ♾️ Split revenue between content stakeholders or anyone and more.

GITCOIN GRANTS

  • Making use of grants will help us to recharge our relayer address.
  • To provide open-source development bounties for more front-end developers to improve the application experience.
  • Build mobile applications by providing bounties for mobile application developers.
  • Improve stability, customer support, and feedback process.

LINKS

https://twitter.com/tapexyz

Tape (formerly Lenstube) History

  • accepted into Web3 Open Source Software 11 months ago. 2874 people contributed $4,026 to the project, and $3,702 of match funding was provided.
  • accepted into Web3 Social 10 months ago. 477 people contributed $880 to the project, and $900 of match funding was provided.
  • accepted into Web3 Social 1 year ago. 300 people contributed $857 to the project, and $1,000 of match funding was provided.
  • accepted into Web3 Open Source Software 1 year ago. 8424 people contributed $13,475 to the project, and $14,988 of match funding was provided.
  • accepted into Web3 Open Source Software Round 1 year ago. 3804 people contributed $15,402 to the project, and $13,986 of match funding was provided.

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