November 19, 2022

Evaluate AMA

The first live NFT swapping tool on Flow. Interview with Christian Dittmeier (Co-founder Evaluate)

Please introduce yourselves, your personal background up until founding Evaluate

I'm Christian Dittmeier, CEO and cofounder of evaluate. I met my other two cofounders Alex and Cody playing Halo 3 online around 14 years ago (I was a data analyst before this, and they are both software engineers). In January of 2021 we stumbled on Top Shot and created what was then named Evaluate.Market to help people keep track of their account value. Now we're bringing live swapping to all major Flow NFTs with evaluate.xyz!

What's your journey been like with Evaluate to date? i.e. detail the change from Evaluate Market to Evaluate, and going on to your release of the first NFT swapping tool on Flow & Ethereum.

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What's the elevator pitch, and then long term vision of Evaluate

Evaluate is an entirely new way to meet other collectors and improve your collection by swapping NFTs. Our platform brings MMO-style live trading and a matchmaking system similar to Omegle or Chat Roulette that makes it easy to find other NFT collectors to swap with. We also feature a live chat so that you can negotiate with other collectors in real-time.

We believe that at best it is an entirely new form of digital commerce - but at the very least it is a fun way to connect with other community members and trade NFTs.Β 

Tell us about your Live NFT swapping / trading tool.Β 

Why'd you launch this?

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How can people use this? Talk us through the experience?

You simply connect your Dapper or Blocto wallet to evaluate.xyz and click "Start trading" to match with a trading partner in seconds. You can also send a trade request to an online user you know on the right hand side of the screen (or by searching for their profile on the top.

Once in a trade lobby, you can filter through their collections, suggest NFTs for them to include, and drag your own into the trade. Like I mentioned earlier, we even have a live chat you can use to negotiate the deal.

What NFT collections does it support?

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Do you plan to support all Flow NFTs?

In the near future, we will support swapping on almost every Flow collection - most are already viewable on the site today and new ones are being added nearly every week.

What interests you about Flow? How do you see the Flow ecosystem evolving over the coming years?

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Favourite Flow NFT?

I bought Baller #8084 for my wife and everytime I see it's face I nearly lose it. 100% up to no good on the court. .Β 

What’s coming next for Evaluate after this?

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Life alpha/ advice from your experience?

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