Questbook (YC w21)

Led a team of 3 - user researcher, product, and brand designer. Went from idea to beta launch in 2 months. In 1 year, shipped 30+ features. App metrics (mind you, it’s the bear market 2022!!)

  • Grant program efficiency - number of builders funded went up from 10% to 28%

  • Turnaround time went from 30 days to 48 hours.

  • $3m disbursed to 1000+ builders

  • 100,000+ monthly on-chain transactions

Product Highlights

  • Conceptualized and designed a gasless wallet experience that lets users do on-chain transactions without having to pay blockchain gas fees

  • Unified community dashboard for grant programs

  • Send funds to builders with Gnosis multisig/safe

  • Conceptualized community-first delegates with domain expertise (DDA approach) to run grant programs

  • Brand design - collaborated with the brand designer to launch Questbook Brand Book.

Features

Builder: Discover feed, Apply for a grant, Milestone updates, Receive payouts, Ethereum Name Service (ENS) & third-party integrations for payout addresses, Encrypted comments

Ecosystem: Run your Grant Program experience, Multisig integration of Gnosis/Celo/Solana multisigs, Analytics for grant program performance, Evaluation rubrics to review proposals, Payouts using multisig/safe and EOA (Metamask etc.), Third-party app integration - Builder KYC and Contract Signing, Community driven funding, Accept/Reject/Resubmit proposal experience, Track milestones and milestone based payouts, Bulk payouts, Notifications

Other Contributions & Initiatives

  • Owned component library, and file organization system for Questbook Design Team. Designed a web3 app to learn foundational courses from Ethereum, Solana, Near, and other web3 ecosystems - used by 20,000+ developers (one of the most active dev communities in web3)

  • Led design for new product line Safeguard - Financial controllers on Gnosis Safe. Use strategies to execute transactions on Safe/multisig. Mentored a team to build Safeguard which ended up winning ETH India ’22.

  • Hired brand, and product designers on the team.

  • Led design explorations for 0>1 products using Reclaim protocol - a protocol that offers an interoperable, verifiable, and private way to port personal data from any web server—even without APIs. Designed a Pseudonymous group chat app gated using your GitHub credentials, Anonymous reference check and feedback from past/present colleagues, and a pseudonymous gossip-sharing app.