⧓ Apillon Platform - Milestone 2 Proposal
(Recap) With Polkadot Treasury backing, the Apillon Web3 development platform would expand and integrate crucial features to bring Web3 and Polkadot technologies even closer to every developer and lay user.
Acknowledging the broad scope of work needed for Apillon to become a one-stop shop for Web3 development and lower the entry threshold to a minimum, the team decided to split the mid-term technical development trajectory into milestones, each covering a specific array of tasks and deliverables.
After successfully completing virtually all of the dozens of technically advanced deliverables from the Milestone 1 Proposal, Apillon is submitting a new, Milestone 2 Proposal for Polkadot Treasury funding to cover the next phase of technical development of the Apillon platform.
The Milestone 2 Proposal focuses primarily on delivering features to enhance user onboarding to Web3 through account abstraction, simplify and customize developer interaction with smart contracts, introduce cross-chain capabilities through XC-20 assets, and provide RPC and indexing as a service for more streamlined deployment of Web3 projects.
As part of our commitment to the vibrant community of over 100,000 Web3 builders, we plan to intensify efforts in creating educational material and UX-enhancing features to provide a more enjoyable and rewarding experience for developers as they navigate through Web3.
The Apillon platform - adoption so far:
User breakdown: 104,739 users
- Freemium plan: 82,634 projects
- Credits bought: 357,500
Service/Feature breakdown:
- Web3 Storage: 229,097 files uploaded, accumulating 138 GB of data
- Web3 Hosting: 24,709 web pages hosted, 390 pushed to production
- Web3 Storage and Hosting: 248 GB of bandwidth since November 2023
- NFTs: 17,404 collections created, 4,600 powered by Moonbeam, 12,228 powered by Moonbase, 576 powered by Astar
- KILT DIDs created: 746
- Subsocial: 12,319 hubs created
- API calls: 8,227,344
- Phala contracts created: 6
So, why vote Aye?
⧓ Apillon is the first Polkadot project actively offering services to application-layer Web3 developers. The Apillon platform serves as Polkadot’s answer to ThirdWeb, Moralis, Pinata, and other solutions already thriving in external ecosystems.
⧓ Apillon has turned its code to open-source, allowing anyone to run a clone of the platform services independently.
⧓ Apillon is the first project to provide access to multiple mature Polkadot parachains and their services. It utilizes underlying tokens while simplifying the payment process.
⧓ Apillon is directly promoting the ecosystem partners and boosting the growth of the Polkadot Network through executing the business side via DOT, CRU, GLMR, KILT, and other DOT-based tokens.
⧓ Apillon provides a "forever"-freemium business model with a wide range of services, lowering the threshold for entering the Web3 space through a newbie-proof Web2 building logic.
⧓ Apillon would create a substantial Developer Adoption Fund to support the platform users’ initiatives and help them launch and market their projects faster.
Learn more about Apillon:
⧓ The full Apillon Milestone 2 Proposal
⧓ Milestone 1 Deliverables Recap
⧓ Video Recap of Milestone 1 Deliverables and Milestone 2 Planned Features
We want to make the reasoning behind Apillon’s Milestone 2 Proposal as comprehensive and transparent as possible. We will do our best to provide additional explanations based on your comments.
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One of the questions presented in a chat was about the methodology of the user and project count. We are aware that Apillon has grown significantly as well as its applications but we would like to know more about the user count if possible:
As far as we can tell there are some familiar names like Ment festival, Astar & PINK which integrated the NFT minting which can explain some of those numbers.
We have in the meantime already voted AYE because milestone 1 exceeded expectations based on the code delivered, public projects using Apillon's tech and the users and usage reported. Moreover, the documentation and tools look intuitive. We have tested them lightly. Moreover, the security report adds more confidence in the delivered product.
If anything, we would like to see Apillon grow even more.
@saxemberg
Thank you for your support and confidence in our work. We're excited to continue growing and improving Apillon with your valued feedback!
To give you some more insights.
We incentivized thousands of people to register on Apillon and learn by using it. To achieve that, we developed measurable, goal-oriented tasks within the Apillon dashboard. This resulted in a funnel where the majority of new registrations creates either NFT collections or deploy websites, or interact with any other Apillon-enabled solution. The underlying data for this is visible on-chain and on IPFS. When looking at what was built (it is impossible to human check everything), we encounter fully built websites, blogs, new web3 startups ranging from Solana to Ethereum and Polkadot, as well as simple "lorem ipsum" pages which were uploaded to Apillon hosting via the UI and the users clearly tested the functionality but never intended to have a real production-ready website. At this point, it is nearly impossible to define which of the websites, NFT collections, and/or other deployed services had a production readiness intention in the background, but that was not the goal of the first step of the funnel. Our plan is as follows:
With all that said, we are aware we are using the term "developer" loosely and maybe "builder" would be more appropriate since our platform also allows no-code to low-code solutions which attract highly technical users that would probably not be defined as programmers or developers.
As shown in the report, Apillon is far from being self-sustainable. An incentivized campaign was just the first step towards self-sustainability, and in the first step, we successfully built a database of 100k+ users who interacted with Apillon across multiple services and/or features, which means they interacted with Polkadot. This was the goal and we can say the response of the first step was above our wildest expectations. Converting 2% of these users into production-ready, maybe even paid users is the next step in our plan, and we have new incentivization campaigns planned to achieve that.
Apillon's offerings and team are amazing. Polkadot needs more focus on improving DevEx and Onboarding -- like Apillon is providing.