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GitNFT — Autograph and sell your GitHub commits as NFTs
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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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
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!
@yassinelanda Thanks for your support Yassine. We hope this will allow OS devs to continue doing what they are doing!
Thank you for the support Yasine, would love to hear your thoughts and suggestions!
This could be a great way to request and pay for feature additions to open-source libraries. Kinda cool idea here.
@chadwilken Exactly! That's precisely where we see this going. Happy to answer any questions :)
@chadwilken Thanks Chad! We're really hoping to empower open source contributors with our platform.
@chadwilken What features would you request first? Or have you got some in mind you want to build and monetise through GitNFT?
@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!
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!
@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 Thanks Kristian. Any idea what you are going to mint first? Keen to hear your ideas!
@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/
@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!
Great example of how to support open source. Unique concept and combination of NFT+Open Source!
Grateful to be a part of this :)
@deleted-3304711 OSS is so vital to almost all software, so we are so pleased to be able to support it this way
@yg Thank you for suggesting this Yogi, we are planning on adding more platforms soon.
@yg What would you mint from GitLab first? Keen to hear what you have in mind?
@david_butler93 Of course! why not? see my GitLab profile activity :D https://gitlab.com/yo
Good way to encourage communities to grow and show recognition! Awesome product!
Love seeing innovation in the web3 space and this is a peculiar use case for NFTs. Rooting for you!
Phenomenal!! This brings light to so many small developers. Congrats on launching!
Beyond the monetary alue this could have to developers, this is such a cool way to immortalize ground breaking code.
So excited to see what diffs are NFT’d!
Cool product 👍🏻
@tmendozas Thanks Tania, looking forward to seeing your commits 👀
Excited to see how this new NFT use case contributes in aligning incentives for more and better Open-Source work! Congrats to the Quine team!
Definitely taking the NFT game a step further, all the best & congrats on the launch!
@sharlyne_simon_123rf We want to take it even further. Watch this space 👀
@melnyk_roman Thanks Roman. Any thoughts on what you will mint first? Keen to hear your thoughts!
@melnyk_roman Thanks Roman, happy to answer any questions!!! :)
@melnyk_roman Please get in touch. Always keen for feedback or discussion, thats how we can take it to the next level!
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