# BrightID Discord Bot Sesh with rnDAO

### [Slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1cxbwndOsR2W_RFmJx_yYIanO6r6Gx2f4wLQVmYvZBNo/edit?usp=sharing)

## Intro
Victor Ginelli (@youngkidwarrior) sat down with rnDAO to discuss the possibilty of BrightID's discord bot joining the rnDAO incubator. We were joined by Daniel and Waka from rnDAO and Adam Stallard, Philip Silva, and yazdaaniam from BrightID.

The BrightID Discord Bot is an application focused on providing all Discord communities with access to sybil resistant tools. With over 10,000 verified users across 800 discord servers, BrightID is looking for monetary avenues to make the bot into a self sustaining public good.

Victor spent the first 20 minutes introducing the projects thesis statement, user-facing product, and some examples of why sybil resistance belongs in Discord Communities, as well as rnDAO.

Some of these exmples included popular topics like Quadratic Voting, UBI, Algorithmic Token Rewards, and Artificial Intelligence Resistant Onboarding.

## "Theorycrafting"

**Note: The sesh was not recorded. All the quotes here are paraphrased**

Adam Stallard of BrightID initially pointed out that a self sustaining business model was top on the priority list.

> "The bot needs to pay for itself and one or two devs"

Some topics followed that statement:

Daniel:
> We need to see how the bot is impacting existing communities. Can we do user research on the communities that already use the bot? SongADAO, BrightID, EthStaker, etc. How are they using the bot? How can we improve their experience? What features do they want?

Adam:
> Commented on the idea of a core "in" circle. He expulained how the bot causes the rise of a new, queryable set of community members. He explained, "Since it is not trivial to set up BrightID, those that have done it care more than those that have not. I can now speak to those members specifically through a Discord role".

Victor:
> How do we find the web2 communities that could use the BrightID bot? Discord Communities are very clever. There are a lot of MMO RPG games that live entirely on Discord. What web2 communites could increase their inner circle using the brightid bot?

These questions all seemed to revolve back toward the same point. "Is BrightID big enough for others to care about adding the bot?" We all agreed the bot isn't the big breakaway app that BrightID is looking for, but more of a companion to [Unitap](https://unitap.app/), BrightID's UBI-esque solution. We also agreed that BrightID has an inflection point where massive amounts of users will join.

Do we have a product before this inflection point?

## Concluding

After mulling over all these topics, we settled on an answer.

✅ We have a product with 10,000 users

❌ It is not going to scale BrightID to the masses

✅ It can be profitable with free tier/premium tier model

❌ We need more resarch on its curent users

For now, the BrightID bot will join rnDAO as a unit. We will see how user research affects the bot in the coming months