Definitely. Part of our marketing and awareness activities will be to hold hackathons and coding contests close to and after launch.

And in which country is the company officially registered? Do you have a legal address and office where the developers are located or are they all working remotely?

Yes. Given that work is sub-divided into smaller tasks, developers can pick any of these tasks and provide solution. It is important to note that by default, developers provide solutions at their own risk since the creator of a task may decide to accept the work done. Furthermore, developers will compete with themselves because anyone can submit solutions for a task. This puts developers at risk and creates room for dispute or wasted effort.

To reduce the possibility of wasted effort, we will introduce a request-and-lock feature where a developer explicitly request to provide solution. If accepted, the the task is tied to them for a period of time. However, the risk of dispute still exist since the task creator can still refuse to accept a solution in bad faith. A solution will be to involve third-party reviewer(s) (a.k.a oracle, escrow) who verifies whether or not a task was actually solved. Reviewers will have the ability to force approval/denial of a solution. The task creator can add a reviewer during task creation and developers can suggest a reviewer when they send a lock request. Both parties must accept the reviewer before the task is final and ready to receive a solution.

The reputation system will go along way in helping task creators, developers and every other player in the ecosystem determine trustworthiness.

 

Yes, there will be means of communication. Preferably a slack-like messaging system. But, this will not be built into the protocol because storage of messages on-chain is expensive and will bloat the blockchain really quick. We will provide an official messaging system, but users will be free to use any communication system developed by people within the ecosystem.

Do you already have licenses or patents? I think for such development you should have some unique technologies that need to be protected at the legislative level.

The rules and tools for rating will be provided in the protocol, official client and apps. Awarding rating and calculating reputation is protocol and user driven. This means other users rate you based on your contribution. To grow your reputation, you must contribute to projects (provide solutions to tasks), do good work and hopefully people recognize your effort and rating you accordingly.

As a decentralized platform, anyone with unrestricted internet connection should be able to access the platform from the very first version.

Here you are certainly right, but this is only if the developers fulfill their promises and if the project can collect the right amount of money. In general, there are a lot of factors and this is in fact just fine.

This is an interesting question. I think it will be interesting what the administrator will say. But in general, the idea itself is very promising. I'll wait for the start with impatience

Traditionally, tokens are not shares. It works quite differently. You can read the description in white paper. But the purchase of tokens gives a number of other advantages.