ALLDAO BLOG - BUILDSPSACE SERIES
Tags: beginners, career, opensource
Published: 2023-08-24 08:19:56

## WEEK 0: BEFORE BUILDSPACE 


![Myself and Fon at Polygon’s Lagos Guild event](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/ghz73mvxwmx0cqbstbi6.jpg)

Hello world! 
Victor, Onoja Odoh here. A co-founder of ALLDAO.

I’m writing this article, and I’m starting this blog, to educate and publicize to you about ALLDAO. 

In the coming weeks you’ll get to know as much about ALLDAO as I do and as a start, I’d like to tell you about ALLDAO before we joined Buildspace.

I came up with the name ALLDAO. I can’t remember what name we used before then but I can remember that the concept of ALLDAO existed before we decided on a name.

ALLDAO is all about community, everyone reading this, especially if you get to the end, are a part of ALLDAO. Myself and everyone else at ALLDAO thanks you immensely 😊

Now sit back while I take you on a trip down memory lane. 

Even though we had exams, myself and Nwa Fon, another co-founder, relentlessly hacked our way through two hackathons back to back during the last three months of 2022.

We built our first DAO, Brother’s Keeper, and we built a dAPP ecosystem, NFTverse. We didn’t win either hackathon but looking back if we hadn’t failed then or at least tried, ALLDAO probably wouldn’t have been born.

Funny story; after hacking all day till night working on Brother’s Keeper DAO, trying to meet the 3AM deadline submission. Me and Fon both fell asleep and forgot to even submit the project, burn out is real guys! Imagine waking up to realize you missed the deadline you were so desperately trying to meet.  

Like I said earlier, looking back now, it wasn’t really about the success or failure of that endeavor but rather the momentum it gave us to push forward and to try again. Plus, in the process we learnt a lot of valuable things that helped us create ALLDAO.

At the end of the first quarter of 2023, middle of March. I and Fon discovered a new hackathon. Spoiler alert, we didn’t win this one either but this was the hackathon that birthed ALLDAO.

The hackathon was hosted by the creators of the aeternity blockchain and in the project description is the secret ingredient of ALLDAO. 

The project description is this; “DAO-FI FUSION: The DAO and DeFi Code Challenge. Join this unique code challenge and revolutionize the way people collaborate in the future!”

If you’re not familiar with the above web3 terms, that’s okay! 

DAOs at their barest minimum are simply online communities. Groups of individuals allied under a common cause. DeFi which stands for Decentranlized Finance is a section of web3 that deals with the creation of value, mostly monetary, using tokens or crypto currency.

The aeternity blockchain hackathon wanted builders like myself and Fon to come up with projects that would cut across these two aspects of web3.

Initially, we came up with ideas like building a DAO dashboard so DAOs can easily view their finance metrics. We thought of building a decentralized fundraising platform but we ended up mashing up all our ideas into what ALLDAO is today.

As a result of our failures from previous hackathons, myself and Fon knew we had to do something different in order to improve our chances of winning this new hackathon.

And that’s how Eniola Roy (or Enny for short) joined the group. Enny is a brilliant product designer who attended the same university as myself and Fon, University of Lagos. I reached out to her on Twitter (now X) and the ALLDAO community started to form.

Myself, Fon and Enny worked back to back on creating a project to submit for the hackathon but we had drop out due to school exams, we just simply couldn’t do both.

We failed once again but by the time we were all done with our exams, the idea of ALLDAO was born and we didn’t have the time constraints of an hackathon so we had the freedom to explore and build to our heart’s content.

Along the line, Nikku joined our community. Nikku is a fullstack web3 dev from India. We met in the discord channel for the aeternity blockchain hackathon, he was looking for a team and we were accepting all the help we could get. 

Nikku stayed with us long after the hackathon ended, same with Enny and we’re all currently building ALLDAO. The ALLDAO community is about 10 member strong currently and we’re growing and accepting all the help we can get.

In the next chapter, I’ll tell you more about ALLDAO currently at Buildspace. If you would like to join the community to contribute in any way, please reach out to us at [alldao.team@gmail.com](mailto:alldao.team@gmail.com)

ALLDAO is all about providing value through communities, there’s a place everybody, trust me!

If you made it this far, thank you very much, you’re already providing value from your corner of the world. I’ll see you next week.

With Love,
Victor Onoja Odoh.
Co-founder ALLDAO