Relying on grants is not the way. You can’t grow your team on grants, its not even allowed as grants are only for individuals. Support client devs directly to have a larger impact and to properly build out a nostr ecosystem that isn’t all funded under a board of decision makers with 0 transparency, where if you make a post like this you likely won’t get your next round of funding and LTS. Don’t let VCs capture and control nostr.
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Unfortunately grants discourage developers from exploring independent monetization strategies, as they become reliant on external funding. It’s like a drug, you always find the way how and where to get it
yeah exactly
Correct. Besides, Grant models haven’t exactly worked in Fiat research academia — centralization at every turn. One could debate whether it’s because of Fiat part of the equation or of the Grant model it self…
En qué cantidad de usuarios purple será suficiente para mantener a Damus a flote? Está cuantificado?
I think 2-3k subscriptions with the current expenses we have. We may have to cut the relay because translations are already quite expensive. We have a long way to go and I will be under the water for a while.
Es un número razonable y creo alcanzable, me preocupa es el tiempo que tomará alcanzarlo. Recortar funciones puede ser una opción, solo debes identificar la que menos impacte en los usuarios.
Yeah that’s definitely an interesting take — scaling down some options to incentivize people to upgrade to purple is worth looking into imo. That said, it’s always tough to go back on options people now take for granted😬
I think @jack knows how to entice VCs 😂.. It's not an accident that the government was using Twitter to try to control the world.
So awesome


Totally agree, I applied months ago and never knew why my project was discarded. The lack of funding has hindered the development and consequently has hindered nostr
We cannot depend on grants to develop, in my opinion, the model you have adopted in Damus is the right one.
I've been thinking for weeks about doing something similar with my service, it will be the only way to survive without having to ask for a handout.
He's right.
How do you feel about small Angel investors that both provide some amount of money (especially first round) and then provide different types of help / support?
Why is this post and some of it's replys being submitted to a nostr community I created? Weird.