Background

OpenFund was my winning submission to the GitxChange hackathon. It demonstrates how Quadratic Funding (in fiat) can be made as intuitive and perhaps even more compelling than traditional fundraising platforms like Kickstarter or GoFundMe.

OpenFund

My concept for OpenFund was to take the hackathon challenge and use a modern JAMstack architecture to build a simple, compelling MVP of a Quadratic funding platform. It shows how the financial features needed for better funding of public goods can be quickly built on the Stripe platform).

As part of the challenge of making the application approachable and intuitive, I wanted to build a simple design language that fit the RadicalExchange aesthetic but that also worked in less editorial, more interactive application. To accomplish this I put together a moodboard and then customized a Tailwind CSS Figma library and built a mini component library with React + Tailwind.

Next steps

The resulting code from the hackathon is open source, and any organization that wants a quadratic funding platform can take this and run with it. The next step is to put it in front of real people and battle test it before it goes live.