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If you look at the lists you'll see it's almost every project that exists on nostr.. having a grant doesn't guarantee success, but a few hundred of them and that will likely mean some will succeed. Or it's an experiment that won't work. I've never seen it tried till now. I think it's strange when people shit talk opensats, the thing that brought to life all this stuff, but also, not surprising. Everyone should apply for one that wants to code in the open because the fund got more sats.

Laeserin 1y ago

You're conflating projects with people. Some people have multiple projects that were funded, most people have none.

The costs for maintaining projects is high, so the projects that don't receive grants, or where grants have ended, just let the infrastructure contracts run out and abandon the repos. What we see leftover and heavily-marketed is grant stuff, but that doesn't mean that nothing else was created or that nobody is working on anything else.

And they don't just give out grants for whatever. They have specific themes and topics and they select projects that fit.

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cloud fodder 1y ago

I don't know, I don't really spend time on seeing why a project dies, that seems entirely possible that projects after running out of a grant would not be successful if they have not somehow created a revenue stream. Open code never dies though. Even if no one picks up the project, it's that much more code to feed into the AI so the next devs can chatGPT their way to success. Opensource can never truly die or be useless once it is published.

Laeserin 1y ago

Yeah, but that leads to a bunch of thin clients and simple webscripts. Low investment, so that if it doesn't catch on, you can just walk away without a major loss.

cloud fodder 1y ago

I guess I'm just kinda lost as to what your point is 😅 mine is to defend what opensats is doing cause I think it's really cool and I saw what you said and thought maybe you hadn't seen the list of projects.

If you do the math, you'll see that the grants are not paid all that much. There is no secret cabal getting all the funds. (5 million / 100)

It's a good opportunity to work in opensource should anyone want to try. I encourage it. Don't be afraid of failure, and just go for it. A VC firm in silicon valley last I checked will only give you 50-80k and control your company from the start. There are very few jobs where you can be this open and work on this new of technology and try to bootstrap something.

I think also, it is an extremely difficult thing to do, given that grantees could easily get a job that pays far more and be stable and not have all the risks that come with making software that is trying to change the internet. So I applaud opensats for helping, I highly doubt nostr would have come this far without it.