1) It's relatively easy to get an OpenSats grant, if you've already gotten one. You're basically on the payroll. That's a sign that the grant program isn't seeing enough attractive opportunities, like a company doing share buybacks. They need to look harder and lower the barrier.

2) If you don't implement a new tech, apply for a grant and say you will implement it, then wait around to find out if your grant is approved, your chances of getting the grant are higher, then if you just immediately build it. That is paying people to refrain from effort. Burning ambition should be rewarded, not discouraged.

3) Current income -- especially as a sw engineer or other STEM profession -- counts against you, even if you're already and obviously putting 20+ hours a week into Nostr development. It's seen as "not being personally invested". Is it a grant foundation or a welfare agency?

4) Obvious grant-worthy projects don't receive grants, unless they apply for one, which is basically a humiliation ritual because they might go through the whole process and get turned down, while everyone is watching them. And everyone knows about them and their efforts are obvious, so why the ritual? Just give them money or don't. If you don't, explain why. In public.

5) Everyone is supposed to prove themselves on GitHub and be active there. But we are on Nostr. They prove themselves here.