Getting into the NFT space was interesting for us. Many tutorials, tools, and websites helped us to create our very own Corona Generation NFT collection.
Let us thank:
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Robyn Conti and John Schmidt for a great high-level overview about NFTs on Forbes.com
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Sumi Mudgil for the tutorial on ethereum.org
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The opensea.io team for their getting started section
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There are many tutorials on how to create an NFT collection. The ones most helpful to us were Rounak Banik's Smart Contract tutorial on dev.to, codeStACKr's 1 Hour NFT Collection YouTube video, a 7 min YouTube vide tutorial by Osaka that might work for less complex NFT collections
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The most solid technical foundation was the HashLips Art Engine
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When testing on the Blockchain test network, you always need to pay transaction fees. https://faucets.chain.link/rinkeby helped us with the necessary liquidity
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Mark Kantrowitz for the list for the list of names we used to give our Corona Generation members a name
From a technology side, this project is interesting as well. We were excited to learning about:
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Polygon as our Blockchain of choice
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Polygonscan.com to "search" the Polygon Blockchain and act as the User Interface to the Polygon Blockchain
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Solidity to write smart contracts and HardHat for Smart Contract deployment
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the Interplanetary File System (IPFS) as the permanent and distributed file storage
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OpenSea.io as the largest NFT marketplace
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MetaMask as a Web3 wallet
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Node.js, Visual Studio Code and the Bash Command Line Interface as a universal toolsets to get the job done