zkTLS RFPs

A question I get again and again from devs is -- what can build using zkTLS? I dug out my telegram today to ennumerate some of these ideas, and added some I wish someone built.

It really feels like the early days of Ethereum, where the possibilities look endless!

Fun Ideas, Unlikely to make money :P

Karaoke Battle

• Two people enter a battle
• They both connect their spotify accounts - share songs they've heard and how often
• Each is given a song from their respective listening history, such that the number of times they've heard the song is approximately the same
• Use GPT to generate a score
• Disburse prize to the winner
• Bonus : make it on chain!

Mario Kart, fueled by sweat

• People connect their Strava accounts - how much they've run in that week
• Use those "miles" to upgrade your car
• Have a variety of tracks which require different car powers
• Weekly competitions, bonus if on chain! Good reward for a week of running, no?

Duo Lingo Chat

• People connect their Duo Lingo accounts - progress they've made
• Connect people with similar progress for a video chat

Influencer Lounge

• People connect their Youtube/Instagram/Tiktok accounts
• Influencers with similar audience and following grouped into a chatroom You get access only if you are an influencer; different groups for different levels

Dev builder

• People connect their github, stack overflow accounts
• Get ingame currency for your contributions to open source; Need to figure out the formula though
• Let people build on virtual land using this ingame currency, like sandbox maybe make money by putting ads in unclaimed land

Ideas for Indie Hackers

Verified Resume

• Let people connect sources like github, stackoverflow, university, current job, national ID
• Auto construct a Resume using these datapoints
• No room for adding any free text Everything on this resume is Verified by default

TrustBnB

A tool for Airbnb hosts

• Guest connects their Airbnb, Booking.com, Couchsurfing reviews and bookings
• Generate a trustable score on how trustworthy this guest is
• Let host provide a discount for low risk guests

ScamCheck

A tool to be used on discord when receiving a message from a new user

• Let users connect a national id that has their name
• When you are contacted by some stranger on the internet, you can send them a link to "scam check"
• The counterparty can generate a proof of their national id to prove their actual name (or maybe just the first name?)

SkillSearch

Same as the Verified Resume idea in the Fun section, but

• give a way for recruiters to search
• give a way for recruiters to contact the candidate
• have a referral bonus agreement with recruiters everything free for candidate, everything paid for recruiter

CreditPlus

A credit score that is multi dimensional

• Allow users to connect Credit Scores, Sales on various platforms, Salary, Profession
• Use these datapoints to come up with a more comprehensive credit score that can be used to underwrite lending sell to lenders

Strict Fitness Trainer

• Let user connect Strava, Fitbit
• Depending on their activity suggest workouts and meal plans
• On weeks where goals are not hit, the meal plans and workout plans are paid

Reverse Questbook

• Let users create their profile using various sources - like github, hackerrank, job history
• Using the skill extracted from above, match skills with all the open grants on Questbook Contact Questbook for a revenue share!

Taste Maker

• Let people connect their Spotify account and share what they're listening to
• Everyweek have a betting round on which songs will make it to the top 100
• At the end of the week, distribute pool to people who bet weighted by how much they bet and how many times they listened to the song last week Ofcourse, take a cut

National Caster

A farcaster clone gated for a particular country, particularly just before a national election

Ideas for potential enterpreneurs

If you're building any of these, we're happy to connect you with our partner incubators. Contact me.

DataDAO

There is a rudimentary version of this deployed here. The basic idea is there, but needs to be refined vertical by vertical and drive traction.

• Customer says "I want so and so data, refreshed every day and I will pay $10"
• Anyone can submit that data on chain, and claim the $10 that is automatically paid out by the smart contract
• Useful for betting applications on chain
• People can earn passive income by running data refresh scripts

Onchain Judiciary

• Create a fine tuned model or RAG on Llama 3.1 using all the public legal cases
• Two parties enter a legal battle with escrows
• Each party provides a case and supporting evidences
• Each evidence is valid if and only if there's a proof of its correctness
• Escrows are liquidated in the favour of the winning party, as determined by the LLM

Paid Inbox

• Let people store all their credentials on a wallet-ish
• They set a price to be contacted
• An advertiser can choose to reach all people with a certain credential, with a budget
• Distribute the message to people's inbox based on credentials and set price
• In the absence of ads, let people participate in group chats

Decentralized Data collection

• Let people store their profession and demographic information to earn money
• Data collectors, e.g. surveyors, AI model builders, can request people to answer questions only if they have certain credentials
  • A medical image classification can be done only by a professional doctor
  • A survey can be filled only if you live in Paris
  • and so on ...

TEE Ads

• Similar to above, but people can reveal their credentials to a TEE
• An advertiser can run more complex ad targetting logic using the credentials available, including look-alikes That way, people can be targetted only on datapoints they explicitly decide to reveal

... more coming soon. If you are building any of these, we likely already have the providers built. Do hit us up and we will be happy to help you build it! If you are raising capital for any of these or related ideas, hit me up - I can connect you to funds and accelerators.