Great comment, the problem in this case is that tool/app/project based funding has hurt Hive and DHF before. So people are incredibly reluctant to fund any projects nowadays. In quite a few cases we had people pitching their ideas about the new shiny thing, receive over $100k in funding and then deliver basically no tangible results or results that did not make any sense or help any Hive user in any way (or help attract more users) before the funding eventually dies out and they disappear.

Not everyone manages the DHF proposals daily, so you'd have a proposal proposed for an entire year, made so much sense, got paid thousands of HBD per month but have next-to-no accountability, simply because no one is actively managing the project from an "investor" perspective.

That's why I believe this project might be more successful, of course, we are not going to invest in some no-name person with a subscription, we would like to vet their previous projects and contribution first. I'd love to see some senior devs who are mingling with AI but haven't had the opportunity to pay for an expensive (yet strong) subscriptions.

As I said in the post, if everything goes well, in the future I'd like Hive Dev Fund to be something akin to the DHF system itself, albeit on a smaller scale. Where tasks, small projects and ideas can get funding, just not in the hundreds of thousands level.