CharmVerse is a DAO management tool that currently integrates the main governance processes of DAOs, such as proposals, forums, voting, and bounty functions. Its biggest feature is that its interaction and interface are exactly the same as Notion.
Because the community I created, CryptoChasers, is planning a new important proposal, I have researched many DAO processes and tools. In a previous article, I discovered DAO Manager, an integrated DAO tool, but after using it, I found that it has inflexible permissions and the community development discussions are not very active.
I first discovered that CharmVerse is being used by Farcaster's purpleDAO, and further research revealed that it is a direct competitor to DAO Manager. Both have received millions of dollars in seed funding, so I conducted some tests.
The advantages of CharmVerse are that it provides default governance processes, the documentation is similar to Notion and easy to use, and the permission settings are reasonable. Currently, it only has four core functions: proposals, forums, documents, and bounties.
DAO Manager provides almost all the functions for managing DAOs and also integrates AI editing, such as discussions, tasks, points, payments, courses, etc. It is comprehensive and has a more modern interface. However, in actual use, it does not comply with the processes of DAOs and has some issues with permissions.
In summary, if a mature community needs to introduce DAO mechanisms, it is recommended to use CharmVerse. If a small team needs to launch a new project, DAO Manager can be considered.
Our community belongs to the former, so we have chosen CharmVerse as our governance tool. The four main functions, proposals, forums, documents, and bounties, are all useful for us. Task management can be done using DeWork, and for courses, we are considering deschool or bitdegree, which should cover all the needs of community development.