Meanwhile, if you're new here and you want funding, good luck. You have no voting relationships. You have no history with the whales.

I dont see how Hivebounty solves that. It just kind of makes it harder to get funding, how i see it.
Instead of allocating money with your vote, you spend money from your pocket. You just switched where intent comes from. Theres still no money until someone puts it up. Thats many times a bigger obstacle for getting funding. Its kind of why the DHF exists to replace systems like this. You can always make a tiny DHF proposal.

You still need relationships with people with money and because they would have to give you money from their pockets its even harder for new people to get funded then it would be convincing anyone to give you their vote. Im not arguing on the merits on how funding should work or not, just in terms of what you seem to want to solve, i dont see how this would solve it, what you built.

This might be useful for small tasks you want someone to do. With Ai being so cheap Im not even sure what tasks those would be. Its kind of a Fiverr type thing and AI literally killed Fiverr.
Its cool you made a tool for Hive but I would temper my expectations.