The problem Respect Game solves

The Respect Game solves key problems in collaborative environments, fostering more efficient, fair, and engaging communities. You can see some problems solved by the Respect Game below:

Encouraging Participation

Problem: Many communities struggle to incentivize consistent participation.

Solution: People can earn Respect tokens by participating in weekly events, fostering an engaging and supportive environment.

Rewarding Public Goods Creators

Problem: Contributors to public goods often lack proper recognition.

Solution: Respect tokens award public goods creators who benefit the community.

Transparent Reputation Systems

Problem: Traditional reputation systems are opaque and centralized.

Solution: Respect tokens provide an onchain reputation score, offering a record of contributions and impact.

Democratic and Fair Processes

Problem: Achieving fair and democratic distribution of rewards is difficult.

Solution: Respect is allocated democratically. Random breakout rooms and weekly peer measurements ensure fair distribution.

Effective Collective Decision-Making

Problem: Centralized decision-making can be inefficient and unrepresentative.

Solution: Fractal democracy decentralizes decision-making into smaller groups, enabling better governance.

Technical Improvements

Abraham built the following features, which enhance the original version of our app:

• Easy Sign-In: Supports various wallets for web3 and web2 apps.

• All-in-One App: Integrates ranking features to play the game in the webapp.

• Custom Usernames: Allows personalized usernames for a clean UI.

In addition, a developer named Tadas is building monorepo called frapps to help developers build applications for the Respect Game and related fractal decision-making processes. Some features that he’s building this month include decentralized account ownership and a new token standard for Respect.

Challenges we ran into

Choosing an authentication template that served our needs and could integrate readily with the thirdweb connection libraries was a challenge due to some versioning issues. Coming from an Angular background, some of the client vs server context issues with Next.js slowed dev progress initially, especially because thirdweb requires its context to be client side, but that context is needed by the entire application, so defining how to separate out db and front end functionality was tricky.