Phases to Date

The project started at ETHWarsaw (6-8th Sep 2024), where we won the main hackathon prize, plus 5 sponsor bounties: Request Network, Celo, Worldcoin, Ora and DB Forest.

We had a lot of interest in cherry.builders as a tool for team formation ahead of hackathons, so we conducted feedback sessions with the founders / organisers of ETHRome, ETHWarsaw and ETHDublin and soon also ETHDam and ETHBucharest.

When we saw the raw energy and density of builders at Edge City Lanna and other pop-up cities in Chiang Mai, we decided start shipping, gathering feedback and iterating fast.

Lessons Learnt from Hackathon Organisers

🍒 use privy for social login, airstack to prepopulate profiles, mbd to prioritise matching, zkPass for sybil resistance

🍒 useful to incentivise hackers to sign-up early

🍒 filter "I have a project" vs "I'm looking for a project"

🍒 work on algorithm

🍒 ways to verify participants - OTP, event password...

🍒 sponsors often request participant data from hackathon for hiring research

Edge City Lanna Experimentation

Being in Chiang Mai, Thailand, at Edge City Lanna, has allowed us to dive into a fast iterative cycle. For the past week we have been shipping fast, demoing on stage, getting feedback from builders and feeding that back into development. As you can see in our public github repo, we have:

🍒 added privy social login, so users can login with wallet, farcaster, email, google or github.

🍒 secured and future-proofed the site and db, ready to scale both in users (secure) and in code (separation of concerns).

🍒 improved and iterated on ui/ux, based on feedback collected on the ground.

🍒 built an integration with cursive.team , who built the tech in the wristbands of everyone at Edge City Lanna. Now cherry users can verify their attendance at Lanna by tapping their own NFC wristband. Furthermore, in view of the upcoming Lanna hackathon, they can check a filter to only see other Lanna participants.

A few days ago we also started building a following at https://x.com/CherryBuilders