Hey everyone!
There is slight amendment to the project’s plans that we would like to share with the Icon Foundation team and the Icon community
As discussed with @ICON_ADMIN on Telegram, we will need to make some changes to the project team’s structure as team Sharpn have decided that they would like to move their focus towards assisting more the expansion of the Icon developer community and will not be able to take part in the second phase of FutureICX’s development. We believe that this is a great initiative on their end and while a bit sad about having to part ways, we are very grateful for their assistance on the project and we are sure that the Icon dev community will benefit greatly from team Sharpn’s improved focus in that direction
In order to proceed with the FutureICX v2 project as planned, we have onboarded two additional members to our team:
Alin is a designer with over 10 years of experience. He has a lot of varying experience, including prototyping and building the overall design of web and mobile apps. His focus is usually on the user experience and to achieve the UI/UX combination he always does extensive research of the similar apps on the market, tries to visualize every aspect from the user’s viewpoint and tries to achieve the best possible solution where the structure and visual representation of the app are as intuitive and visually pleasing as possible
Rinalds is a web and mobile full stack developer with over 15 years of development experience and a recent focus on cross-platform financial market applications. His professional experience includes a wide range of technologies and APIs and the apps that he has developed in the last 2 years have had over 1 million combined downloads and hundreds of users trading online on them at any given time. He has architected, developed and marketed multiple commercial web software products, websites and mobile applications of his own and worked on hundreds of customization projects for these products
While these changes in the team’s structure will not change our plans in terms of timeframes, goals and will not lower the project quality that we will deliver, they will result in some changes in the project’s costs. The updated planned costs for the project will be as follows:
- Team manager (nblaze – Midos prep) – 0 $ requested
- PR expert (Corey C – Midos prep) – 0 $ requested
- UX/UI Designer – 4200 $/month
- Fullstack developer – 7200 $/month
- SCORE developer (Spl3en – ICONation prep) – 2900 $/month
- Video content specialist team (Team lead Ruben - Hola ICON prep) – 700 $/month
Total projected costs: 60 000 $ (4 months x 15 000 $)
However as the project has been already approved with the previously submitted costs, we will not ask the Icon Foundation team to cover any additional costs related to this change, so the even with the updated team, the funding request will not differ from our original one
Total projected costs: 60 000 $
Difference covered by nblaze: 11 600 $
Total funding requested (as per our original request): 48 400 $ (4 months x 12 100 $)