Thank you so much for running this needed call. It's nice to see that the concerns around the DHF and transparency issues are being taken seriously, especially with 
I posted something in Discord, but I am going to post it here too concerning testing. I've got a lot of testing experience across multiple types of testing:
With computer/tooling use, AI can do this increasingly well now. I have an Android/iOS game I built that had a pathfinding bug. I got Codex with GPT-5.4 to open up the iOS emulator, click around, debug console output and fix the issue (so you can do semi-automated mobile testing).
Combined with established testing methodologies:
The tooling side of things was already resolved before AI and now AI is making testing even easier. It's no longer a chore or PITA to set up good test harnesses.
I'm honestly a little confused why mobile testing is allegedly a sticking point for time/cost for projects, because mobile emulation isn't hard. The iOS emulator supports numerous emulations, same with the Android emulator. Maybe this comes down to inexperience and people who aren't mobile devs are building mobile apps?
Also, building mobile apps is easy now too. React Native is a mature ecosystem that lets you build cross-platform mobile apps from the one codebase. There aren't really any reasons for people to develop native mobile apps anymore. React Native + Expo is incredible.
It's incredibly easy to build apps on Hive now. I've even got a simple starter I open sourced on GitHub called Honeycomb: https://github.com/Vheissu/honeycomb which gives you an instant starting point for Hive applications (Node.js backend, indexer, DB integration and front-end). I also have a library I've been working on for the past 7 years for Hive called Hive Stream: https://github.com/Vheissu/hive-stream which gives you a simple, extensible and adapter driven approach to working with the blockchain (supports MongoDB, Postgres, SQLite, MySQL).
From my perspective 80-85% for developer expenses is far too high for a project to spend its money on. It signals that for a user-facing project, that it has no real go to market strategy, no one is doing user research or design properly, QA is treated as an afterthought (or done by the devs which means dev work stops) or worse: the team is just larger than it needs to be.
What is the output relative to the spend? A solo dev shipping a game every couple of weeks makes the math look pretty brutal for a funded team burning 85% on developers and shipping quarterly at best. The ratio itself isn't inherently wrong, but it becomes a red flag when velocity doesn't match the investment.
AI tooling has genuinely changed what a small team or solo dev can produce (as everyone on the call acknowledged, with figures cited around 10x more efficient). If someone is employing the same team size they had three years ago and pointing to the same developer cost ratio, the honest follow-up is: what are all those people actually doing day to day? Because the productivity ceiling per developer has gone up significantly.
Maybe it's a visibility issue, but I don't see many Hive projects that are DHF funded shipping any faster than they were prior to AI tooling becoming good.
One of the big questions I want answered is, what the heck are Hive Keychain spending 600 HBD a day on? Because another takeaway from this call (that I have already mentioned numerous times in my posts, comments and Discord messages) is infrastructure costs for Hive are dirt cheap. Hence why projects on this call all seemed to cite close to 10% ish of funding for infrastructure, which anyone who works in tech and has experience with servers already knows (especially when your apps are offloading the database work to the chain itself).
RE: Hive Projects Budget Transparency Meeting