Its certainly possible to access discourse via an api. You would most likely use this:
its super easy to use. But I would suggest for a moment that we step back for a minute and think if this is really the best direction to take. For example if you look at this proposal in the monero ccs:
thats a very non technical task. People that dont know about git and gitlab could work on it. But they cant, because git is a barrier for them. I personally love git and I am also currently working on an electron app to make it easier for non technical people to use git. But that is not trivial.
I looked at your proposal and created a quick mockup with categories and subcategories (could also be done with tags) in my dev instance:
https://cidian.social/c/community-crowdfunding-system/6
the appearance could easily be changed with a themecomponent to look more like the monero ccs. look for example at this (notice the card like appearance at the top):
But the big technical question is how are people going to vote for and fund ideas. I think this is really the hard part. Theoretically we could use the built in poll feature of discourse like:
Do you want this?
- yes
- no
but the issue is that people can easily create sockpuppet accounts and fund their own ideas this way.
I think the solution is to only give people the power to vote that donated money. This could be realized as I mentioned before by integrating discourse with the ltc wallet. Thats what I am going to do.
I will take this subscriptions plugin and add ltc as a payment method Discourse Subscriptions - plugin - Discourse Meta
And then instead of getting a subscription people get the amount they donated tied to their discourse account. And they can use this amount to vote for stuff they want.
Please tell me if this makes sense to you!
I also think it has the added benefit that people can use discourse and ltc to sell digital products as subscriptions. Thats an amazing feature that I want to use myself (because I want to sell my code and video tutorials as a product. But I dont like fiat lol )