Stellar Donation Tracker (Stellar API, React, Webpack)

kevinweber

This is the first milestone towards a platform that supports organizations who want to be more transparent about their transactions on the Stellar network.

The Stellar Donation Tracker lists payments sent to a Stellar account. It provides a simple interface to see the highest and most recent payments including the Memo text of a transaction, if provided. The Memo text allows donors to add a personal touch to their donation.

Demo: https://lumens.space
Github: https://github.com/kevinweber/stellar-donation-tracker

Next I’m going to explain the two challenges this tool solves as well as a vision for further development. Please let me know what you think and what would be helpful for you :-)

#1 Solved: Be transparent about transactions on the Stellar network
Are you a non-profit organization or developer accepting donations? It’s not transparent if you don’t show the donations you received via a blockchain, even though people could technically track every transaction anyway. Instead, let’s be transparent right away: Everyone can use the Stellar Donation Tracker to showcase the amount of payments received as well as the most recent payments. ✔

#2 Solved: Start a new project with Webpack + React + Stellar JS SDK
It can be very frustrating and time-consuming for developers to get even a simple app running. The Stellar Donation Tracker is an open source starter kit and covers basic needs for any client-side Stellar project. Its Webpack and React setup integrates real-time payment and account updates with Stellar’s JavaScript SDK. ✔

#→ Vision
Lumens Space becomes the go-to platform for enterprises who are transparent about payments they send and receive on the Stellar network. Users get access to user-friendly visualization tools to explore the data of a company. Companies own branded transparency pages with tools to analyze their transactions. Leading companies such as Dropbox are transparent about government requests and alike (see e.g. https://www.dropbox.com/transparency/reports) but not about blockchain transactions yet. Lumens Space makes it easy for companies to be more transparent about their payments.

– Kevin

dlohnes

I really like this and have been hoping for more utilities like this to appear.

In general I love the direction and would love to see it expand.

Here are the things I'd like to see most:
1) Support for more currencies, especially BTC and ETH.
2) An easily installable widget that users can very easily configure and drop into their pre-existing website. If it's facile to make use of this widget, it would become less and less excusable for non-profit (or for profit) projects to not support having something like this on their main website.

For me I imagine a great application is for projects which are soliciting donations, whether its for a non-profit fund or for an ICO. At a glance, the widget would display the amount of money which has been donated to the account(s) (deposits are assumed to be donations) and the current balance of the account(s). It simultaneously becomes about transparency but can also be used for goal setting (think the "thermometer" gauges seen at fundraisers).

Great work!

kevinweber

dlohnes That's great feedback, thank you very much. I updated the to-do list on the project's Readme file accordingly.