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Show HN: Find any smart contract on Cookbook

28 points by tysehr37 4y ago

Cookbook is a free open Smart Contract Marketplace. Find, deploy and integrate the smart contracts used and audited by other projects. - view audits and stats - no-code deploy supporting 9 chains - contribute and collaborate with other web3 developers Currently it is extremely difficult to find good talent when building on blockchain or if you want to create smart contracts. Cookbook.dev makes web3 projects easier to build and launch. Bringing down the cost of development is crucial to onboard the next 10,000 businesses onto web3. How does it work? Step 1. Search for the Smart Contract you are looking for. For example:- Azuki Contract or Create your own token or NFT staking, choose from hundreds of smart contracts Step 2. Choose the Smart Contract you want. For example:- Choose based on your use case such as Create a DAO, NFT minting website or any use case you desire… Step 3. Customize it from our user friendly nocode UI and deploy Optional Step: Upload your own contract to share with others or reach out to us if you don’t find the smart contract you want. Why use Cookbook.dev? Reduce development cost Faster time to build Simple and easy to use UI Save $$ on security audits Our no code and low code solution encourages more people to build in Web3 Our ask Our platform is completely free to use, the only thing we ask for is feedback - https://www.cookbook.dev/ https://www.cookbook.dev/ We would love to know what can we do to make your life easier or how can we make our platform better, you can share your feedback with us here - https://discord.gg/9TwGrYbQCD https://discord.gg/9TwGrYbQCD

JamJomJim 4y ago
How does this compare to OpenZeppelin? Aren't they already the default for free smart contracts?
- tysehr37 4y ago
  Openzeppelin provides a very limited number of templates. Great for importing into a smart contract and extending from, but requires a fair bit of work to get there. With cookbook, people can use/deploy completed contracts from other projects for many more usecases than openzeppelin.
  - JamJomJim 4y ago
    Got it - seems like you can just directly deploy contracts
JFelty 4y ago
This is super cool, but what if I can’t find a contract like NFT staking?
- tysehr37 4y ago
  Feel free to request one or contribute one, we're adding new contracts every day
nicktz 4y ago
Just deployed a token. Super easy
- Ensydr 4y ago
  Just out of curiosity, What did you call your token? And what chain did you use? Did you deploy it on testnet?
FoodmasterX 4y ago
What a great platform, love this idea. Super innovative, can't wait to use CookBook.
- tysehr37 4y ago
Ensydr 4y ago
Has there been a security audit done on these Smart Contracts?
- tysehr37 4y ago
- bigsock 4y ago
  it looks like contracts that have audits for them have it on their page. Should make the audits more obvious and noticeable, I missed it at first
miguelmejia 4y ago
This is the kind of project needed to make web3 accessible to a much wider scope of participants. Any plans to support vyper?
- bigsock 4y ago
  Yeah, Vyper would be nice, it's the late bloomer but is so nice to work with
- tysehr37 4y ago
  Definitely plans to support different smart contract languages over time. For the short term we're focusing on Solidity as most web3 devs use it.
Elemilion 4y ago
Cookbook makes getting smart contract super easy, love it!
- tysehr37 4y ago
  thank you!!
picklerickcodes 4y ago
Amazing good job. Will be testing everything out in the next few days.
jrmg 4y ago
I can’t be the only one that doesn’t understand what any of this means. Can someone ELI5? Or, ELI am a software engineer with no web3 knowledge, at least?
- JamJomJim 4y ago
  Smart contracts are just pieces of code that run on "the blockchain". They can be pretty much anything: currency-like tokens, NFTs, marketplaces like opensea, exchanges like uniswap, etc. Once they're uploaded to the blockchain, they're there permanently. That's really scary, because it's very difficult to write complicated code without bugs. When smart contracts have bugs, you can have massive hacks where literally billions of dollars are stolen. Because the consequences are so high, people end up paying developers a ludicrous amount of money to write and deploy (i.e. upload to the blockchain) these contracts. A lot of projects also pay auditors thousands to read/review the smart contract code. This is pretty wasteful, because most contracts end up being the exact same thing: I'm making it up, but probably 80% of the code on ethereum is for NFTs. This site seems to be aggregating all of the most common contracts and audits so people can reuse code that has already been approved.
  - tysehr37 4y ago
    This is exactly it. The way to think about it is that smart contracts are effectively server-side code that is specialized to run on blockchains. They use many of the same building blocks and can often be reused. When I want to build Auth in Nodejs, I might use Passport.js, and I often use Express.js. Often I'll use mongoose.js as well. That's effectively what we're providing with cookbook, a way to find and utilize solidity packages created by the community.
  - jrmg 4y ago
    Thanks - great explanation. Smart contracts on blockchain scare me, because I just don’t think humans are capable of writing (or auditing!) perfect code.
koolba 4y ago
> Step 3. Customize it from our user friendly nocode UI and deploy What is a real world example where someone with no experience deploying smart contracts would use something like this to deploy a smart contract? I just don’t see it. If you don’t even know how to deploy something, how could you possibly have any place deploying something, let alone modifying or vetting the source?
- tysehr37 4y ago
  The majority of web3 developers only just recently entered the space, and are looking for simpler tools. We discovered this from a long series of interviews. The goal is to build cookbook in a web2 dev accessible way, and present all of the stats and audits and information so that they are more able to make dapps.
falsulin 4y ago
If someone else than cookbook uploads a contract, how can I be sure it's safe for me to deploy on my project? Is there a failsafe of some sort? (code review/approval, community ranking etc)
- tysehr37 4y ago
  Many of the contracts have their audits listed, you can read through the audits to see whether its safe to use or not. But as always, you should make sure to do your own testing before deploying to production.
Elrond420 4y ago
mickael88 4y ago
I am building a platform on Web2 and wondering if cookbook has a tool where I could Integrate a Web3 wallet integration to it ? if this is something achievable ?
- tysehr37 4y ago
  It really depends on what you're after, we do have a widget to embed web3 functions into any site, it's in early beta.
girl_dad 4y ago
Deploying with cookbook is completely free? How do you guys make revenue?
- tysehr37 4y ago
  We work with SMBs and Startups for advanced contracts, analytics and tooling. That's really how we're able to sustainably keep Cookbook free for individual developers
bertman 4y ago
>Currently it is extremely difficult to find good talent when building on blockchain Hm, I wonder why that is.
- tysehr37 4y ago
  Software engineers tend to follow demand, with some lagtime. Since crypto goes through these manic bull/bear cycles, demand dramatically spikes and falls. Hard to make a career change when the next bear cycle can wipe out your prospects. As crypto stabilizes, there should be a wave of immigration into web3 engineering. You can already kind of see who these engineers will be, they're often the web2 developers who just happen to be working on web3 projects (and don't know solidity)
willnz 4y ago
Looks really good! What’s been the most interesting use case you’ve seen so far?
- tysehr37 4y ago
  Someone was actually building a decentralized commodities exchange, and used a couple of Cookbook contracts to build out their infrastructure
rakesh7659 4y ago
I think this is very valuable for web3 founders bootstrapping and with limited access to blockchain development resources.
- tysehr37 4y ago
  Thank you! That's our goal. We want to make building in Web3 significantly faster and easy with Cookbook.

28 points by tysehr37 4y ago

JamJomJim 4y ago

How does this compare to OpenZeppelin? Aren't they already the default for free smart contracts?

tysehr37 4y ago
Openzeppelin provides a very limited number of templates. Great for importing into a smart contract and extending from, but requires a fair bit of work to get there. With cookbook, people can use/deploy completed contracts from other projects for many more usecases than openzeppelin.
- JamJomJim 4y ago
  Got it - seems like you can just directly deploy contracts

JFelty 4y ago

This is super cool, but what if I can’t find a contract like NFT staking?

tysehr37 4y ago
Feel free to request one or contribute one, we're adding new contracts every day

nicktz 4y ago

Just deployed a token. Super easy

Ensydr 4y ago
Just out of curiosity, What did you call your token? And what chain did you use? Did you deploy it on testnet?

FoodmasterX 4y ago

What a great platform, love this idea. Super innovative, can't wait to use CookBook.

tysehr37 4y ago

Ensydr 4y ago

Has there been a security audit done on these Smart Contracts?

tysehr37 4y ago
bigsock 4y ago
it looks like contracts that have audits for them have it on their page. Should make the audits more obvious and noticeable, I missed it at first

miguelmejia 4y ago

This is the kind of project needed to make web3 accessible to a much wider scope of participants. Any plans to support vyper?

bigsock 4y ago
Yeah, Vyper would be nice, it's the late bloomer but is so nice to work with
tysehr37 4y ago
Definitely plans to support different smart contract languages over time. For the short term we're focusing on Solidity as most web3 devs use it.

Elemilion 4y ago

Cookbook makes getting smart contract super easy, love it!

tysehr37 4y ago
thank you!!

picklerickcodes 4y ago

Amazing good job. Will be testing everything out in the next few days.

jrmg 4y ago

I can’t be the only one that doesn’t understand what any of this means. Can someone ELI5? Or, ELI am a software engineer with no web3 knowledge, at least?

JamJomJim 4y ago
Smart contracts are just pieces of code that run on "the blockchain". They can be pretty much anything: currency-like tokens, NFTs, marketplaces like opensea, exchanges like uniswap, etc. Once they're uploaded to the blockchain, they're there permanently. That's really scary, because it's very difficult to write complicated code without bugs. When smart contracts have bugs, you can have massive hacks where literally billions of dollars are stolen. Because the consequences are so high, people end up paying developers a ludicrous amount of money to write and deploy (i.e. upload to the blockchain) these contracts. A lot of projects also pay auditors thousands to read/review the smart contract code. This is pretty wasteful, because most contracts end up being the exact same thing: I'm making it up, but probably 80% of the code on ethereum is for NFTs. This site seems to be aggregating all of the most common contracts and audits so people can reuse code that has already been approved.
- tysehr37 4y ago
  This is exactly it. The way to think about it is that smart contracts are effectively server-side code that is specialized to run on blockchains. They use many of the same building blocks and can often be reused. When I want to build Auth in Nodejs, I might use Passport.js, and I often use Express.js. Often I'll use mongoose.js as well. That's effectively what we're providing with cookbook, a way to find and utilize solidity packages created by the community.
- jrmg 4y ago
  Thanks - great explanation. Smart contracts on blockchain scare me, because I just don’t think humans are capable of writing (or auditing!) perfect code.

koolba 4y ago

> Step 3. Customize it from our user friendly nocode UI and deploy What is a real world example where someone with no experience deploying smart contracts would use something like this to deploy a smart contract? I just don’t see it. If you don’t even know how to deploy something, how could you possibly have any place deploying something, let alone modifying or vetting the source?

tysehr37 4y ago
The majority of web3 developers only just recently entered the space, and are looking for simpler tools. We discovered this from a long series of interviews. The goal is to build cookbook in a web2 dev accessible way, and present all of the stats and audits and information so that they are more able to make dapps.

falsulin 4y ago

If someone else than cookbook uploads a contract, how can I be sure it's safe for me to deploy on my project? Is there a failsafe of some sort? (code review/approval, community ranking etc)

tysehr37 4y ago
Many of the contracts have their audits listed, you can read through the audits to see whether its safe to use or not. But as always, you should make sure to do your own testing before deploying to production.

Elrond420 4y ago

mickael88 4y ago

I am building a platform on Web2 and wondering if cookbook has a tool where I could Integrate a Web3 wallet integration to it ? if this is something achievable ?

tysehr37 4y ago
It really depends on what you're after, we do have a widget to embed web3 functions into any site, it's in early beta.

girl_dad 4y ago

Deploying with cookbook is completely free? How do you guys make revenue?

tysehr37 4y ago
We work with SMBs and Startups for advanced contracts, analytics and tooling. That's really how we're able to sustainably keep Cookbook free for individual developers

bertman 4y ago

>Currently it is extremely difficult to find good talent when building on blockchain Hm, I wonder why that is.

tysehr37 4y ago
Software engineers tend to follow demand, with some lagtime. Since crypto goes through these manic bull/bear cycles, demand dramatically spikes and falls. Hard to make a career change when the next bear cycle can wipe out your prospects. As crypto stabilizes, there should be a wave of immigration into web3 engineering. You can already kind of see who these engineers will be, they're often the web2 developers who just happen to be working on web3 projects (and don't know solidity)

willnz 4y ago

Looks really good! What’s been the most interesting use case you’ve seen so far?

tysehr37 4y ago
Someone was actually building a decentralized commodities exchange, and used a couple of Cookbook contracts to build out their infrastructure

rakesh7659 4y ago

I think this is very valuable for web3 founders bootstrapping and with limited access to blockchain development resources.

tysehr37 4y ago
Thank you! That's our goal. We want to make building in Web3 significantly faster and easy with Cookbook.