Building a self-propelled software development training and recruiting ecosystem with SpaceMVC

This article is somewhat stream of consciousness taken from a Twitter thread https://twitter.com/ThePatToner/status/1290960967413706752

Today I'm polishing up the demo app for SpaceMVC.

It's basic and allows you to manage a student roster for a hypothetical class.

Over time it's going to become a real software development course and there will be rewards as you complete exercises.

You'll have to get someone further along in the course to sign off that you completed the exercise. That will unlock the tokens.

The tokens are useful inside our community and they'll be used a bunch in the app itself. Also it just feels nice to earn something.

I also have some ideas how we can insert real world value into these tokens over time. Very open to your ideas also.

For kids it could be a program similar to the Pizza Hut Book-It program. Go through some lessons, earn some tokens, go use the tokens at participating sponsors.

For adults the same concept could also work. In addition I have some ideas for how they can be the fuel in a self-propelled recruiting ecosystem. 

We're building a software development course to prepare people for engineer roles building Ethereum and IPFS distributed applications.

As you complete each milestone you'll be rewarded tokens. So will your instructor.

When you complete all the milestones you'll work with recruiters.

When you find a job the recruiting fees will be turned into a stablecoin and distributed to all the token holders.

So as people find jobs EVERYONE who has ever taken the course or helped someone else will get paid.

Get paid to learn. Get paid to teach.

When people get stuck on things maybe they can post questions with a bounty. Out of the tokens they already earned.

Then whoever helps out gets a reward.

The further up the ladder you escalate the problem the higher the bounty gets.

Recruiters will get tokens too. Trying to figure out how that part will work.

The reward structure will be decided by the DAO.

So it's also a governance token. Token holders set the rules.

Contributing to curriculum will get tokens.

Helping guide students through any prerequisite classes will get tokens.

Students are paid to help each other.

The entire ecosystem will be incentivized this way.

One instructor should be able to handle an ENORMOUS amount of students because

1. Mostly self-directed with financial rewards.

2. Get help from peers first. Costs tokens to escalate.

3. All the students are ALSO TAs.

4. By the time any questions make it to you shit is on ??

It might be in the best interest of the ecosystem to take the recruiting money and buy the token off the market and burn it.

Instead of distributing a stablecoin.

Similar effect but we keep the value inside the ecosystem.