About Swace

Swace is a community-driven initiative, envisioned as a solution to the unsatisfactory experiences users and brands have with social networks, each from their own perspective. It is an independent platform featuring preset gaming frames brands can use to engage with users, who in turn get rewards for participating and winning games. The app’s economy is based on decentralized blockchain technology and revolves around a token called the Swace Coin.

Features

Swace develops a variety of frames in which social games can be created, making use of several different technologies and exploring user motivations which tie into our core values. The frames are flexible and enable anyone to create a game within them in a simple and straightforward way. The array of frames offered will be constantly updated with new options offered regularly. This is the central interaction of the app, powering user content generation, brand engagement, and the token economy. Swace believes that by triggering the competition instinct, combined with habit building and the natural motivation of rewards, the lives of users can be enriched and made more exciting, which in turn will lead to greater loyalty to the brands standing behind the games.
Some examples of possible engagement scenarios: location, voting, AR, emotions, product testing.

 

Additional features:

Giphy integration (as GIFs are an extremely popular means of communicating emotions)
Game leaderboard (to see where they rank and compare to their friends)
Photo editing (filters, adding text, etc.)
Simplified profile sharing (to show friends or to invite them and earn tokens)
Geofilters
Teaming up with other users to complete games (earning more tokens)
Facial recognition (earn additional tokens for every additional person in the photo)
Daily tokens (rewarding users for returning to the app every day)
Sharing tokens (follow someone to send and receive tokens)
Reporting users (reporting unsuitable content or behavior)
Community moderation (earn tokens by helping moderate user content)

Technical Info

SWACE is deployed on the cloud. Its backend is containerized and built using microservices. The use of microservices has lots of benefits, such as faster development cycles, scalability, resilience, cloud friendliness, and high availability (with close to zero downtime). Security is guaranteed by the proper use of cloud infrastructure. Due to the nature of microservices, SWACE is not tied to any language or technology, so we chose the right tools to do the right job. Utilizing the freedom that the use of microservices gives us, we chosen a handful of latest and most secure techstack including, but not
limited to PHP 7.2 and Laravel. The SWACE social network is backed by a distributed graph database solution.

Swace Roadmap

 

  • 2018 May

  • Swace App launch