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Rodrigo Mendoza-Smith

GitNFT - Autograph and sell your GitHub commits as NFTs

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GitNFT lets developers mint NFTs of their GitHub commits and seamlessly list them in the OpenSea marketplace! Minting costs are on the house 🍺

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Ryan Hoover
Similar to Cent but for git commits, not tweets. This might sound silly to some, but this could unlock a new method for supporting open source and indie devs. 😊
Rodrigo Mendoza-Smith
Maker
That's right @rrhoover 🙌 we want to channel value back to software creators and incentivise new work in OSS!
David Butler
Maker
@rrhoover Exactly our thinking! We can't wait to see what the community does with it!
Yashika Sharma
Great example of how to support open source. Unique concept and combination of NFT+Open Source! Grateful to be a part of this :)
Rodrigo Mendoza-Smith
Maker
@yashika51 Thanks Yashika 🙌
David Butler
Maker
@deleted-3304711 OSS is so vital to almost all software, so we are so pleased to be able to support it this way
Yashika Sharma
@david_butler93 Absolutely! Looking forward to how this evolves :D
Rodrigo Mendoza-Smith
Maker
Hello 👋 My name is Rodrigo, I'm the founder of Quine. We are building novel ways for software creators to monetise their work, skills, and reputation. Today we're thrilled to release our first product - GitNFT - which enables developers to autograph and mint NFTs of their GitHub commits and list them in the OpenSea marketplace for collectors to buy. So how does it work? GitNFT enables you to suggest and vote on commits that you think should be created as NFTs. If you're the author of a commit, the app enables you to mint an NFT of it for free. Upon minting, the NFT gets transferred directly to your ETH wallet and is listed in our OpenSea collection. You can then choose to put it for sale on OpenSea. GitNFT's smart contract runs on the Polygon (formerly Matic) Ethereum sidechain, and the NFT metadata is stored on Arweave, the leading blockchain for long term file storage. We think commits are a great collector item. They're unique, have verifiable authorship, and are immutable by design. Moreover, many of them store substantial collector value, either for their historical significance, the coolness/aesthetics of their content, or the popularity of the author. The world’s digital infrastructure feeds on Open-Source Software (OSS), yet the economic value it generates does not back-propagate to its creators. GitNFT is a new monetisation mechanism that aims to make Open-Source work economically sustainable ❤️ Please share feedback, questions, and comments :) Happy minting 🌿 Rodrigo & the Quine team
Bertie IP
Damn - this is a great use case for NFTs. Really really cool concept, and excited to see where this goes! Congratulations on the launch 🚀
Rodrigo Mendoza-Smith
Maker
@bertie Thanks Bertie! :)
David Butler
Maker
@bertie Thanks so much Bertie. We are with you that we cannot wait to see where this goes!
Tudor
Maker
@bertie Thank you Bertie! 😄
Devanand Gowda
Maker
@bertie Thank you for sharing the excitement with us Bertie, we have high ambitions on this project 💪
Yoginth
GitLab support would be great!
Rodrigo Mendoza-Smith
Maker
@yg Thanks for the feedback Yogi! Coming very soon!
Devanand Gowda
Maker
@yg Thank you for suggesting this Yogi, we are planning on adding more platforms soon.
David Butler
Maker
@yg What would you mint from GitLab first? Keen to hear what you have in mind?
Yoginth
@david_butler93 Of course! why not? see my GitLab profile activity :D https://gitlab.com/yo
Gerda Espinosa
This are great news for the Software Dev community! Cheers!
Devanand Gowda
Maker
@gerdaespinosa Thanks Gerda! We appreciate the support!
Tudor
Maker
@gerdaespinosa Thank you Gerda!
David Butler
Maker
@gerdaespinosa Thanks Gerda. Let us know what you think!
Rodrigo Mendoza-Smith
Maker
@gerdaespinosa Everything we do is for the OSS community ❤️
James Smith
Good way to encourage communities to grow and show recognition! Awesome product!
Rodrigo Mendoza-Smith
Maker
@jesmith Thanks James! Really appreciate your support 🙌
David Butler
Maker
@jesmith OSS is such a great community, this is our way of trying to help it! Thanks James
Anton Shevchenko
Maker
@jesmith Thank you so much!
Yassine Landa
I am super exited about this!! This can change the game on how people can monetise their open source contributions and how open source projects can raise funds (value of initial commits, big milestones, forks, white-papers, hacks... etc). Tokenisation of software, here we come!
Rodrigo Mendoza-Smith
Maker
@yassinelanda YEESS!!!!
David Butler
Maker
@yassinelanda Thanks for your support Yassine. We hope this will allow OS devs to continue doing what they are doing!
Devanand Gowda
Maker
Thank you for the support Yasine, would love to hear your thoughts and suggestions!
zufius
This is an interesting idea. With NFT we can monetize everything on the internet! How weird!!!
Rodrigo Mendoza-Smith
Maker
@zufius Yes zufius!
David Butler
Maker
@zufius What else would you want to mint? We are all ears 👂
Tudor
Maker
@zufius Yes!! We're really hoping to empower pro-bono developers this way and give back to the OS community
Kristian Kielhofner
As others have said, great application of NFTs! Also like the selection of Polygon; at my new (pre-ProductHunt) startup I selected Polygon as well because we'll be paying for gas too. Luckily with the $250 of MATIC we bought I probably won't have to even look at it for years because the gas fees are so low. Congratulations on the launch, I'll be watching (and likely using) GitNFT!
Rodrigo Mendoza-Smith
Maker
@kristian_kielhofner Thanks Kristian! We share your thoughts on Polygon and looking forward to seeing you in the platform and helping you monetise your work 🙌
Kristian Kielhofner
@r0dms Thanks Rodrigo, I wish you the best of success with GitNFT!
David Butler
Maker
@kristian_kielhofner Thanks Kristian. Any idea what you are going to mint first? Keen to hear your ideas!
Kristian Kielhofner
@david_butler93 We should be open sourcing our JavaScript client implementation soon and given our space and application (non-transferable NFTs for media asset verification records, NFTs for media assets themselves) I think it would only make sense to mint our first release! More at our website if you're curious: https://tovera.com/
David Butler
Maker
@kristian_kielhofner I just signed up. Love the control it gives users over their assets. Also like how you are considerate of privacy too (in a past life I worked in cryptography and privacy (id stuff)). Please get in touch when you do open source it!
Ivanna Wendel
Great idea! Congrats on the launch!
Rodrigo Mendoza-Smith
Maker
@ivanna_wendel Thanks Ivanna 🙏
David Butler
Maker
@ivanna_wendel Thanks so much Ivanna. Let us know what you think!
Amber Sean
Definitely taking the NFT game a step further, all the best & congrats on the launch!
Rodrigo Mendoza-Smith
Maker
@sharlyne_simon_123rf Thanks Sharlyne!! 🙏
David Butler
Maker
@sharlyne_simon_123rf We want to take it even further. Watch this space 👀
Alexandre Flamant
Keep up the good work team Quine!
Rodrigo Mendoza-Smith
Maker
@alexcflamant Thanks Alex!
David Butler
Maker
@alexcflamant Thanks Alex. Keen to hear any feedback you have!
Ernest Oppetit
Maker
@alexcflamant and likewise Team Flamant ✊
Bo Wang
Well done guys!!
David Butler
Maker
@bluemonk482 Thanks Bo!
Rodrigo Mendoza-Smith
Maker
@bluemonk482 Thanks so much BO!
Tudor
Maker
@bluemonk482 Thank you Bo!
Anton Shevchenko
Maker
@bluemonk482 thank you!
David Butler
Maker
@bluemonk482 What are you going to mint first? You must have some super cool commits floating out there in the repoverse!
Jon
Will give this a try! Looks very interesting!
Rodrigo Mendoza-Smith
Maker
@dlwlrma_kr Thanks 🙏
David Butler
Maker
@dlwlrma_kr Please let us know what you think! We would love your thoughts!
Ankit Jena
Wow, this is a nice concept
Rodrigo Mendoza-Smith
Maker
@ankitjey Thanks Ankit! 🙏
David Butler
Maker
@ankitjey Ankit, keen to see what commits you mint! Let us know your thoughts!
ValhallaMan
This is a super interesting direction for NFTs. Best of luck guys!
Rodrigo Mendoza-Smith
Maker
@nikos_koukos Thanks so much, happy to answer any questions!!
David Butler
Maker
@nikos_koukos Thanks for your support! We are excited too!
Tudor
Maker
@nikos_koukos Thank you! Looking forward to seeing you around our platform and your first GitNFT :)
Chad Wilken
This could be a great way to request and pay for feature additions to open-source libraries. Kinda cool idea here.
Rodrigo Mendoza-Smith
Maker
@chadwilken Exactly! That's precisely where we see this going. Happy to answer any questions :)
Tudor
Maker
@chadwilken Thanks Chad! We're really hoping to empower open source contributors with our platform.
David Butler
Maker
@chadwilken What features would you request first? Or have you got some in mind you want to build and monetise through GitNFT?
Chad Wilken
@david_butler93 I don't have anything in mind, just thinking out loud
David Butler
Maker
@chadwilken That's how the best ideas come! I'm sure there is some cool crypto that can be used to "commit" to a future NFT. Commitment schemes and Sigma protocols (think Zero Knowledge Proofs) seem a promising direction - but that is just thinking out loud!
Spark
Awsome job!
Rodrigo Mendoza-Smith
Maker
@spark88 Thanks!!!
Tudor
Maker
@spark88 Thank you!!
David Butler
Maker
@spark88 Thanks a lot! What are you going to mint first? Any cool games in the offing? 🎮
Daniel T
Good to see products using NFTs in novel causes like open source. We need more of this use cases and less "art". Well done GitNFT team
David Butler
Maker
@danieltd Thanks Daniel! We really think NFTs can be genuinely useful to open source, propagating value back to the creator! Have you got any commits in mind you want to mint??
Rodrigo Mendoza-Smith
Maker
@danieltd Code can also be "art", but you're right, we want to apply NFTs for the good of OpenSource!
Daniel T
@r0dms Definitely! Code is art. GitNFT is helping add value to the art coders have created with hard work., something that is not always true in some NFTs.