added a "gui" field to the barterDEX startup json so we can track which GUI is most used.
For those that missed it, we are offering multiple 10,000 KMD bounties for barterDEX GUI. At a minimum it needs to support KMD, BTC and the assetchains and be an original implementation. Preferably from a slightly different point of view than the other GUI.
This is about $20,000 per GUI at today's prices and of course once we get one or more GUI for barterDEX that people are happy with, the price is expected to reflect that.
Just contact me if you feel you are able to make such a GUI with some rough ideas (screenshots) and I will reserve the 10,000 KMD for your GUI completion. By complete, that means real users actually using it as evidenced by the "gui" field set to your GUI for completed transactions in the stats records of the atomic swaps.
There will be some common sense assumptions to the barterDEX GUI bounties:
Working GUI must be deployed within some reasonable timeframe, I am thinking 2 to 3 months
A limit to the number of different GUI projects that will have bounty reserved. In the event they dont meet the deadline, then an alternate would be eligible.
To spice things up, I am considering a usability contest where the most used GUI gets an additional bonus. By having a specific deadline for tallying the usage, this incentives an early release, but of course if it is early but not so good, it wont get much usage.
Still undecided on the cutoff for the usage tally and I am also considering supplementing the usage tally with a poll of this thread. That would have less weight than the usage. And a final component which would be made by me only in the event that some technically deficient version was winning to ensure that the bonus doesnt go to some version that has technical issues but still gets a lot of usage.
Something like usage 50%, poll results 25%, technical 25%
The bonus amount I want to be big enough to get some project management types to manage a few devs. To achieve this effect, I am proposing a $100,000 USD equivalent of KMD (max of 50,000)
So if you can manage a barterDEX GUI project, you can get it accepted as a bounty setaside to make sure that you recoup your costs and also get a shot at the $100,000 bonus. In addition to the nice money bonus, the winning GUI will become the official barterDEX GUI, which will of course establish whoever created this to be a bona fide award winning GUI dev (team).
It looks like we will get not only an Agama barterDEX, but also a simple html, a swing wallet and a QT wallet, with more likely to enter the contest.
I think the timing for the contest would be based on a time delay from when the first viable barterDEX GUI is released, say 2 months after that event.
Feedback appreciated, this is an idea that is in the process of being formed so now is the time for feedback before it becomes set. The 10,000 per GUI is already set, but the number of approved GUI projects is not and the specific way the winning GUI will be selected is not finalized