Overview
Before we dive into setup steps or explore the internals of the platform, this section will give you a clear, high-level understanding of what The DAO Tool is, why it was built, and what it enables. Whether you're a developer, contributor, or someone managing people inside a DAO, open-source project, or protocol team — this is the perfect place to begin.
What is The DAO Tool?
The DAO Tool is a modular, open-source coordination system designed to help decentralised teams work more efficiently.
Instead of relying on multiple disconnected platforms, it brings everything together in one place — task assignment, collaboration, communication, and payments.
At its core, The DAO Tool integrates:
GitHub issues, automatically synced as bounties.
Discord announcements for real-time bounty visibility.
Contributor dashboards for tracking applications, progress, and submissions.
USDC payouts over Solana wallets using Privy.
A dedicated analytics section in the dashboard to visualise platform activity.
This means no more spreadsheets, DMs, or context-switching across four tools. Just a smooth, async-friendly flow from issue to payout — all self-hosted and customisable.
Why This Exists?
The idea behind The DAO Tool came from direct experience. While running a contributor program, I found myself constantly switching between GitHub for issues, Discord for updates, Notion for tracking, and spreadsheets to manage wallet addresses and payments. It quickly became a mess — error-prone, unscalable, and exhausting to manage.
I searched for a single, developer-friendly tool to solve this.
But nothing existed that was open-source, wallet-native, async-ready, and easy to build on.
That’s why The DAO Tool was built — not just as a bounty board, but as a flexible coordination framework that gives teams control over their contributor workflows with transparency and automation baked in.
What You Can Do With It?
If you're part of an organisation, The DAO Tool gives you a private, role-based dashboard where you can manage contributors, sync GitHub issues, automate Discord updates, and process on-chain USDC payouts — without handing off control to third-party platforms.
If you're a developer, you'll find a clean and extensible codebase built with React, Express, and Firebase. You can explore background queues, REST APIs, role-based access, and easily customise features to match your own use case or workflow.
Who It's Built For?
The DAO Tool is especially useful for:
DAO operators and protocol teams managing async contributor programs.
Open-source maintainers looking to track and reward external contributors.
Hackathon teams and collectives that need a structured coordination layer.
Ecosystem leads running bounties, micro-grants, or recurring contributor tasks.
Builders who want to fork and extend DAO infra for their own needs.
Whether you’re coordinating two people or a whole contributor network, this tool was made with you in mind.
What’s Next?
In the next few pages, you’ll learn how to:
Set up the project locally on your machine.
Configure your environment. (Firebase, GitHub OAuth, Privy)
Understand the backend / frontend architecture in depth.
Contribute to the project or build custom features for your own team.
Thanks for checking this out — and welcome to a more efficient way of managing work in Web3.
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