Title: Content Gateway Season 3 Budget Proposal Authors: @0xNSHuman Date Created: 2021-12-10 Date Posted: 2021-12-18
After releasing the Beta version of Content Gateway in Season 2 and having the aggregated data distributed to the first user-facing product, we are going to focus on growth towards being a platform for other projects in the DAO and organizations outside it, as well as adding new content to the system, which now has a good cost of implementation with our existing tools.
However, there are important considerations that affect our budget request.
In Season 2, we deliberately kept all the roles assigned to just two contributors, because we believe in the power and productivity of small and highly-specialized core teams at the earliest stage of development. We achieved everything we wanted, and I’m convinced that the value DAO received is worth the BANK spent.
In Season 3, we couldn’t be more inviting to have new contributors take the tools we’ve built and start executing on many of the roles. However, we just started talking to the first potential contributors and it will take more time to onboard people and start distributing the workload.
This presents a challenge for us, because one of our biggest goals in Season 3 is to achieve self-sustainability and marketability for the platform, and we can’t just keep working on features 70 hours a week. Besides that, we need to allocate time for participation in the DAO and Dev Guild governance.
For these reasons, we’re seeing the need to manage expectations and risks until we have a clearer picture of what our new team is going to look like, how delegation of the scope will affect productivity (remember, bigger teams are often less productive, as counter-intuitive as it sounds), and what our market opportunities are.
With the intention to remain a long-term asset in the DAO, for optimally distributed pressure on the treasury, and for our own peace of mind, we’re asking for 50% of what our actual estimated budget is — 336,000 BANK.
We will focus on team growth and market orientation, and once we’ve onboarded more contributors and synchronized with them on the workflow and values — we will submit application for additional funding later in the season.
In addition to that, we have allocated 69,420 BANK from our Season 2 budget to use for contributor incentives, which is going to be carried forward to Season 3.