Gonna be honest here... I'm pretty skeptical of this proposal. 108,625 HBD is a substantial amount of money, and looking through the projects being funded, I have some questions.

Vylor is a commercial AI personal finance app with paid PRO subscriptions. Why is the DHF subsidising development of a private commercial product? Integrating Hive balances and payments doesn't automatically justify funding the broader application.

Then there's Hive Freelance, an Upwork-style marketplace, Hive Chameleon, a 3D multiplayer game, LINGO, a Wordle clone with HBD rewards (I already built a significant popular Wordle clone called Hiveword), HiveTrivia and HiveLore. Are these really the best uses of community funds? What evidence is there of demand, adoption or measurable value being returned to Hive?

I can absolutely get behind funding HAF improvements, infrastructure, APIs and work that benefits the entire ecosystem. But bundling those alongside commercial products, games and experiments makes it difficult to know what we're actually paying for. This seems all over the place. People can't be expected to fund things with minimal return.

And we're in 2026. AI has fundamentally changed software development productivity. As a developer myself, I'm delivering considerably more with less effort than I was even 12 months ago. Surely that should be reflected in the cost and output of these proposals?

Where's the project-by-project budget? How many development hours are being funded? What are the measurable deliverables? Who owns the commercial products and who benefits financially if they succeed?

I'm not suggesting the team hasn't done valuable work, but previous contributions shouldn't automatically justify another 108k HBD without proper scrutiny.

The DHF should be funding measurable value for Hive, not becoming a general-purpose development budget for someone's portfolio of apps.