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title: 'Product Palooza: Expand Proof Field'
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# Product Palooza: Expand Proof Field

## tl;dr

- Expand our *Contribution Proof* field to support more file types
- Tradeoff is that this may be additional steps in the process for marginal gain -- we may want to experiment with seeing if this is actually a pain point
- May be able to achieve similar impact with explaining that users could upload on their own and provide link to proof

## Situation

Right now, we only support URLs for the *Contribution Proof* field. This favors things like pull requests or documents and folks may be wanting to add proofs that are alternative file formats such as PDFs, images, or videos. If they want to do that they need to upload elsewhere and link to it for the proof field.

## Pain Points

As a user I'd want to be able to upload different types of contribution proofs instead of relying on a URL

## Proposed Solution

Add options for users to be able to upload proof as a link (current) or as a file uploader such as a screenshot.

## Considerations

We'd want to think about how/where we manage the uploads. If we can use IPFS we can then still potentially store the proof in the same way that we currently are -- as a string of the URL.

Is this something that would be beneficial? It may be a nice UX improvement for folks who want to upload through different formats but also may increase the overhead and we could have folks upload screenshots to whatever service they'd like and link to it. 

If that's the case, we could potentially add in additional copy explaining this.