Sharpay

Good working product, amazing team

Team: Need to be more diversified that should include international experts and staff to expand it globally.

Vision: It looks promising but it can also create a feeling that the product is an annoying advertisement program and easily be blocked and adblocker.

Product: Good but same like vision part. Need to improve!

Great team, vision and product. Good luck guys! Great ICO!

Interesting idea, looking forward to see prototype

Strong team. Vision and product.
KYC verification- good

Well, someone send me proof of phishing, someone use they logo for scam, caution, remember no one can ask u the key wallet.

ICO under revision....

I need check better if the database used is they database.

Fantastic Team! Great Vision! Looking forward to watching the success of Sharpay.

Increasing my scores after some discussions with the team. I have subsequently to my initial review and reading of the docs reassessed. The team have impressed in being active, following up and open which is a good sign for ongoing success. The recent events as well in the big social media world also I think may help some adoption here as users especially younger will look to share to more then the standard normal big 4 or so. If this then drives the growth to newer sites its good news for all and adds vakue, new people want one click easinest and this may help drive that

I originally liked this project and gave it 14 out of 15. If I could actually give a lower score than rock bottom 111 - I would. I am getting abused by the team on various IM services for my refusal to up the score from 111. Which is quite pathetic. At one point, the CEO also replied with a lie on ICObench stating that I was contacted only to thank me for my high score. A screenshot quickly proved that one wrong. Lying from the top is not a good sign.

I have had to downgrade this rating due to someone from the team (another advisor from ICOBench on top of that) for approaching me on Linkedin to give a better mark for no reason. This is just wrong.

Sorry to the team but a 14 out of 15 was a good fair mark and sending out people to push me to give a full 15 is unethical.

It looks to me like there are spending human resources to jack the vote here. This is no longer an honest, objective voting process with these kind of tactics.

I am a straightforward, honest analyst of ICOs, I have been involved in over 40 of them, written about hundreds of them at Blockchain News and have been judging hundreds of startups before this for Horizon 2020 at European Commission and six years at Innovate UK as a startup judge. What this is... is simply judge tampering.

To respond to the CEO reaction. Do you honestly think I would downgrade your score if someone contacted me to thank me for my generous 14/15? No of course not. I was hustled to give a perfect score outside the framework of ICObench and I find that unethical. Particularly since it was a member of your own team.

An excellent team. A simple solution for an already existing market, where blockchain allows to create a product with fundamentally better quality than there is now.

Promising project

Very strong team on this ICO.

Glad that this is available in Trust Wallet in iOS and Android but needs more adoption from the community and effectively make it across different networks to build real traction.

What Sharpay aims at doing is to popularize the sharing of a system among the users to help track rewards generated within it. The very nature of the promotional that aims at taking its successes to the masses through a group of satisfied customers would no doubt bring on the success that it so craves.

The easy integration with blockchain systems would make this application future ready as also the combination with the leading social media platforms.

If there were a strong negative to the system, then it is that, only increased collaboration among users would ensure its success. This would mean that if the chain of shares were to be interrupted at any time, the whole process would be scuttled.

Strong team, and innovative rewards system.

Promising and interesting. Looking forward to its progress.

Exciting project, looking forward to seeing this one developing

Smart play all round.

Very interesting project!

Great project in my opinion, curious to see how this one develops.
*please see my profile for my disclosures

Content sharing; interaction will be interesting to see results.

Experienced team solving a real need with a great vision! Wish you luck!

- Strong team
- Amazing idea
- Blockchain for people)

Advisers - good as well as a team
Product - why you create one more blockchain instead of using already existed solutions (protocols, starter kits etc)
Hardcap is not huge for such project.

Interesting project
Keep watching it

Wow! Havent seen this kind of blockchain use. Hope to see this soon.

That's an smart project!, it allows to monetize the popularity of a social network user , also to pay any user to advertise you. witch result in a better targeting and with a reduced cost.

its a great idea. good luck

I really love this concept, this could be good especially for crypto users in third world country's.

I have long admired this project after first seeing a presentation in January. Strong team, good vision and a product that will work, and have value.

Best of luck.

Very good project

Strong team, original idea, already achieved the soft cap. Very good community management. Looks promising.

The best blockchain ventures are the simple ones. Well Done!

In contrast with all the good reviews, it has taken too long for the team to do the funding, so I think there is something off here. In fact, the ICO was open for several months and yet the total collected amount is not much.

The product is very simple, and blockchain is fit to serve its purpose.

I hope you will be successful but I don't believe you have got enough interest from the community.

Well, the team looks strong, so it's a 5.
However, there are 2 issues that are bothering me:

1) Why do you need a blockchain? I know at least half-dozen similar projects (dead and living) that offer similar product without any need in the DLT. And frankly I can't see why the team has decided to use blockchain for this particular product.

2) Quote:
"Sharpay will quarterly allocate 90% of the proceeds to ensure the redemption of tokens from their holders (investors and users).
The program starts according to the results of the 3rd quarter of 2018. The price of the buyback is based on the nominal price of a token at 0.00003 ETH what is nearly $0.01 at the moment of the official launch in November, 2017."

Guys, it's a clear security token offering and I don't see any requirements for accreditation of investors, the tokensale is open for anyone.
Do you have a Legal Opinion about the SHRP token stating it as an utility token? I would like to see it.

Great product, MVP already launched, successful seed round... This ticks all the boxes for a successful ICO.

Looks promising. Good luck guys!

Great vision and product.

Revised Ratings For all 3 categories from 4 to 5

Social media marekting and monetization is a new and growing market taht could definitely use something like sharpay

Clear proposition. Clear communication. Strong team. FULL SCORE!

An experienced team that knows what they are doing. The whitepaper is one that is more thought through than the majority of whitepapers I have seen lately (especially from an investor's standpoint).

Good product focus. Unfortunately, I don't see the team that can get this project to a global scale it requires to succeed.

\\*This is not a due-diligence of the above mentioned project/company or shows a method measuring the viability of this idea in the market or an investment proposal to the project. My review is not intended to be a source for advice. My review is not using any methodology to decide if the project is a scam or operates any other shady scheme. This is a project review pointing out mostly on incorporation of different technologies. I used published information on ICObench and project links. I was not financially compensated in any way for posting this review. The opinions expressed are my own and are based on my observations while reading the white paper and published project’s information.*//

Very experienced team, especially in Crypto / Blockchain sphere

Product is easily understandable and bringing clear value for end-users.

The community size is average, but very active

Simple and effective. A share button does a lot - it can collect data in an analytics system and it can be used for tracking - building that backend on a blockchain is a solid idea that has merit to success.

Sharpay is an all in one blockchain project that aims to revolutionize sharing content on the web. The main advantage of the project is that it will benefit end user and help them earn money by sharing content. Also, it can benefit businesses by lowering overall social media expenditure as Sharpay’s reward system will encourage viewers to share good content. Sharpay token has a clear economy and its use in the project’s eco-system is justified. There is a clearly defined and understood business model. The team has an adequate professional experience to succeed. The project is backed by the community in the Telegram chat, Facebook and Twitter. I guess that this particular project would not be overlooked by investors.

I think that blockchain technology definitely has a role to play in disrupting oniline advertising and marketing. That is why I'm always talking about BAT (Basic Attention Token) and their efforts in this area.

Monetizing sharing links seems like an obvious thing to do and providing a blockchain based record of shares is a good way to try and foster trust that shares and clicks are real given that something like 50% of all ad impressions and clicks are fake.

But I'm not really seeing anything super revolution here to justify a 5 for vision - they talk about patent applied of tech but don't really say what it is.

The team is probably more like 3.5 (i'm now using 3 as "average" in my ratings) but without knowing more about them I couldn't be firm about bumping to 4. The demonstrated experience seems to be mostly in the executive level vs. actual developers. Which is not to say they don't have good devs, just that it isn't obvious - there is only the CTO and a single developer listed and neither brings demonstrated blockchain experience, just "enthusiast" level qualifications.

As for the product - well as yet we don't have anything launched and although I was able to get a share to work using the links on their website I have no idea if it is actually utilizing any real blockchain based code - even though it promised me 1 Sharpay token I've no idea how I might redeem that.

The whitepaper is above average I would say, but the Github repo link doesn't give much of a clue about what there is either - as best I can tell it is just the public website source code.

Also on the product side I'm not seeing evidence that they have managed to make headway with finding customers for it. If it is as awesome and popular as claimed I would hope they could have found some websites that will commit to at least trailing it.

On the technology side I'd be much happier if the team wasn't devoting time to launching their own blockchain. I think it would have been much better to launch this as a Smart Media Token on STEEM or be an early adopter of EOS which will be crazy fast and free to use. One thing you definitely have to work hard at is making on-boarding drop-dead simple and having your own blockchain could be both a blessing and a curse. It will certainly create a bunch of work to distract you from the main focus I think. If I was them I'd be writing my code to be blockchain agnostic...

I also don't like this reliance on patented tech. Patents are kind of antithetical to decentralized systems and most of the time are expensive distractions. IMO by the time a company has to bust out patent lawyers to start suing competitors it has already lost the game. This is a space where you want to win by amazing execution to bring a drop-dead simple and low-friction product to market and get mass adoption quickly.

Furthermore although "patent" is mentioned many times in the whitepaper there isn't a single reference to the claimed patent that protects some of the IP. If it was relevant and impressive I would think it would be a no-brainer to have a link to it.

My overall rating is that although this shows promise and I wish them all the best with rolling it out I think most of the guaranteed upside lies with using Sharpay to share links, and eventually as a publisher once its adoption by the community has been demonstrated.

I think that blockchain technology definitely has a role to play in disrupting oniline advertising and marketing. That is why I'm always talking about BAT (Basic Attention Token) and their efforts in this area.

Monetizing sharing links seems like an obvious thing to do and providing a blockchain based record of shares is a good way to try and foster trust that shares and clicks are real given that something like 50% of all ad impressions and clicks are fake.

But I'm not really seeing anything super revolution here to justify a 5 for vision - they talk about patent applied of tech but don't really say what it is.

The team is probably more like 3.5 (i'm now using 3 as "average" in my ratings) but without knowing more about them I couldn't be firm about bumping to 4. The demonstrated experience seems to be mostly in the executive level vs. actual developers. Which is not to say they don't have good devs, just that it isn't obvious - there is only the CTO and a single developer listed and neither brings demonstrated blockchain experience, just "enthusiast" level qualifications.

As for the product - well as yet we don't have anything launched and although I was able to get a share to work using the links on their website I have no idea if it is actually utilizing any real blockchain based code - even though it promised me 1 Sharpay token I've no idea how I might redeem that.

The whitepaper is above average I would say, but the Github repo link doesn't give much of a clue about what there is either - as best I can tell it is just the public website source code.

Also on the product side I'm not seeing evidence that they have managed to make headway with finding customers for it. If it is as awesome and popular as claimed I would hope they could have found some websites that will commit to at least trailing it.

On the technology side I'd be much happier if the team wasn't devoting time to launching their own blockchain. I think it would have been much better to launch this as a Smart Media Token on STEEM or be an early adopter of EOS which will be crazy fast and free to use. One thing you definitely have to work hard at is making on-boarding drop-dead simple and having your own blockchain could be both a blessing and a curse. It will certainly create a bunch of work to distract you from the main focus I think. If I was them I'd be writing my code to be blockchain agnostic...

I also don't like this reliance on patented tech. Patents are kind of antithetical to decentralized systems and most of the time are expensive distractions. IMO by the time a company has to bust out patent lawyers to start suing competitors it has already lost the game. This is a space where you want to win by amazing execution to bring a drop-dead simple and low-friction product to market and get mass adoption quickly.

Furthermore although "patent" is mentioned many times in the whitepaper there isn't a single reference to the claimed patent that protects some of the IP. If it was relevant and impressive I would think it would be a no-brainer to have a link to it.

My overall rating is that although this shows promise and I wish them all the best with rolling it out I think most of the guaranteed upside lies with using Sharpay to share links, and eventually as a publisher once its adoption by the community has been demonstrated.

Update: 2/8/2018
In response to the comment by Sharpay CEO I would like to say:
1. My review makes no mention that the team "may not be cool enough" and that was certainly not my intent. In fact I generally see it as a bad sign when an ICO packs their advisory board with big names that "look cool" but who probably aren't doing much but lending name recognition. So it is okay that you are "not cool" IMO. My main concern is ability to execute. As I pointed out I don't see strong evidence of that so far. Obviously you know your team well and are confident in them but no one ever tells me they have anything less than an amazing team. As pointed out in my profile it simply cannot be that everyone who says they have an amazing team and amazing idea will succeed - I sincerely believe that around 90% or more will fail and even great teams with great ideas can and do fail. I hope that is not you but I simply have to go based on the evidence I have in front of me.
2. I have googled you, your CTO and developers. I've looked your patent application US 2015/0310505 A1, your Git repos and commit histories, as much history as I can given language limitations, even at corporate filings for Balalike LLP.
3. I have since retried the share buttons on your home page and was able to get them to work. I think there was an issue connecting to one of my social media accounts from my phone. I have been able to post a share, see it in the user dashboard, and get some referral clicks. However I don't know if this is using any real infrastructure and by changing IP address / use of anonymous browser session it was relatively easy to fake some clicks that counted towards referrals. Eliminating fraud would seem to be a very important feature - it's unclear if you have solid solution for that.
4. Finally there is still the issue of how you are going to get publishers using this and if you have any partners and how you will get them.

At this point I'm not inclined to increase scores, but as indicated I'll certainly be willing to look again if there is additional info like:
a) additional team hires
b) non-website code in the Git repo to look at
c) more tech info about the product
d) announced partnerships with content providers

Very nice idea. Let's see what will come out of it.

Interesting project
Highly professional team and already working prototype allow me to put a high rating! Good luck to the team

I am a big fan pf projects that give back value to the people who create the content. Power to the people! I like the dog video too! A little bit ambiguous at the start ... could have become messy (lol) Overall a thumbs up!

Hello Anton, I got to know your entire marketing team left since you propose empty promises, not valuing any bounty contributions, not even releasing investor token or bother anything on exchange listing, further not public statement - well congratulations. Curious how this will be explained

Very good team and product is awesome. Looking forward to see the prototype.

Good team, with consistent experience plus a great product leads the vision to the news stage of a disruptive way of payment!
MVP seems already available and the whitepaper is sharp and clear!

Sounds very interesting but I don't understand why people give max. points for vision... It may be a great product and I'd love to use it but if this is the highest of what the world offers (and needs) in terms of visions it would be depressing.

Good team and interesting idea, best luck!

Great team!

Less of blockchain and much of cryptocurrencies.

Hardcap : 45000 ETH is huge to build this platform.
No unique decentralized advertisement mechanism for the product.

Awesome project!

Very detailed whitepaper, including clear flowchart. Great idea! Good luck with the project!

a good project if everything is achieved.

The idea is sound. But there is no reason to have a token for this project. This is a "token for the sake of token" project. They could launch this project easily and simply pay the profits and shares out with an existing cryptocurrency. The technology is good and I like the premise, but the idea that there needs to be a token for this is one of the main problems with ICOs today.

Strong team with a vision. Hoping to see the working product soon.

Product and Vision: This is an excellent project of Blockchain and utility tokens . The business case is clearly defined and the buyer of Sharpay tokens is assured of the increased traffic as the humans and not a bot has shared their website.
Team: The CEO's LinkedIn profile doesn't show any Media experience . It is interesting see how he will pull through this great idea of pay to share and share to earn model. secondly It is dubious for the CBDO to put Hardvard Business School in the LinkedIn profile.
Please see the guidelines to What constitutes Harvard Business School alumni status?
https://www.alumni.hbs.edu/help/Pages/faqs.aspx

Exiting project ! Team is one of the best in coming ICOs! Wish good luck !

A strong team behind a promising project!

Very interesting concept for project based on blockchain technology. The team, current MVP and general idea are great. Moreover, company seems to be working in compliance with GDPR, but it still strange to see such an interesting project operated by an offshore Belize company.

Love the idea, seems easy understandable and bringing benefit for both webmasters and web users.
However, different social networks have different formats for sharing/writing/posting and sometimes the same message cannot be sent to different portals. But I think this is solvable. I am not sure whether 45,000 ETH is the amount required for implementation. Also, I am not sold why does SharPay needs to be tokenized and why they're targeting to build internal blockchain in the second stage of development.

love this one! Due to huge popularity of earn.com and referral programs in crypto, I think this one has a huge potential! Team is very good, kudos to diversity! ... One idea for improvement- the team should really update their profile here (remember, it is probably Page #1 at Google), their website is much better. Hope to see a real video soon, dogs are the best, but so is this idea. Cheers

Project is definitely "too overhyped".

- Hard concept for global implementation. There are no evidences or solid researches that can prove global demand of this product

- Large competitors on the market

- Blockchain is not necessary to solve the problem

- Token appreciation model is doubtful and questionable

- Team has solid background and impressive experience, however some people on advisory board are solely for marketing purposes (Some members have over 10 projects on advisory list, which is simply impossible to handle physically)

The idea is simple, and it can be very profitable. Looking forward to see your prototype. Video presentation is crazy perfect. Im in love with Shar-Pei, i hope it will be the same with Sharpay. Good luck!

I like this ico, team is compose by smart people, the vision is great and can be delivered an amazing product can't wait to see

I invested in this ICO so cheering for everything goes smoth and good

Powerful idea. I'm impressed with team, product and vision.

I wish more ICOs look like this.

Great team, wish them best of luck.

I will follow this project as I think it has real potential for long term return - and these types are ICOs are more interesting to me.

Great Vision, great concept. High chance that it might be one of few projects to survive.

I rated the team as '3' since the team could have more and better technical profiles instead of members which are related with a bunch of more ICOs

Great project. Wishing you good luck.

Sharpay... Hmmmm - Trying to be a bit DOGE?
Dangerous game as Crypto grows. I would keep the name but remove any reference in marketing to dogs.

Fantastic concept though, Well done.

I always appreciate a team with a working MVP before trying to ICO. In terms of overall vision, this makes sense and doesn't appear to be a case of tokenizing merely for fund-raising purposes.

The product is still young, but some serious consideration has been given to the architecture and user experience of the actual button. The user administrative backend, though, still needs to be fleshed out a bit, but I imagine that will come with time.

As is the case with many ICOs, there's a bit more experience with blockchain technologies on the adviser side than there is on the actual team, so that's a minor ding for me. The team does, though, have some experience from GOLOS, which seems to be a Steemit fork. The Golos tokens are trading on Bittrex, so that's a potential boon for investors.

It's also a pet peeve, but it is always concerning when team members on IcoBench, the website, and the whitepaper don't match up. In at least two instances (Marketing Manager and SMM Manager), we have members who are either omitted from a team sheet or have been completely replaced. In a world where ICO team member commitments and identity theft are commonplace, special attention should be paid to congruence across these platforms.

As an aside, I like the name -- it's clever and brand-able.

Best of luck to the team.

Team is strong, Product and partnerships on point!

My experience as a user is extraordinary
I am forced to vote with the highest score
I recommend 3 improvements:
1.- Marketing
2.- Improve Sharpay DAO
3.- These 7 principles: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/happiness-abundance-guillermo-abell%C3%A1n-berenguer/

Someone said: "Happiness (success) is reached when what you think, say and do vibrates in harmony"

Namaste
Happiness & Abundance

While I have no doubt the team can execute, I have some concerns about the product offering: This is dependent on the publishers who will adopt this sharing solution (similar to commenting systems).

The utility of the token will also be tied to the number of publishers (the Network Effect) and in this stage, they are competing against a lot of other options.

The strength of the ICO is based on the team and its patents. Risk seems minimal, but the product offering maybe limited.