This is a brilliant post - thank you !

Something I've been pushing for a while now is that any proposal should need a proper business case explaining either how they'll return the funds to the DHF, or how they'll deliver a benefit to Hive that is greater than the cost to the DHF, together with an objective measurable criteria that defines what success looks like. The DHF should be more like a lending bank than a grant-giving charity !

I've always wondered if there's a way to create a central directory of projects. I've seen a few half-hearted attempts but they've alays been very incomplete. 

Done well (and promoted well !) it would help people find projects that would otherwise be unknown. It could also identify those projects which aren't working well or have stopped altogether; this might provide an avenue for similar projects to band together, merge their work and continue with a larger team, or for those with the knowledge to step in and help out (or even take over) projects that need help.

I agree with you that projects need to think about profitability. Either by bringing in users and investment from outsdie Hive (like Splinterlands) or by gaining funds from within Hive for services delivered. Hive has a reputation as a place where "everything is fee-free" (even though it isn't). So perhaps an answer instead of charging a fee would be to use delegations; a user would delegate funds, and in return would receive credits (maybe a Tribe Token) which they spend to use the service.



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I think apps here are looking too inwards for support. What they need to do is first gather support from outside, and then build on HIVE. Always depending on the DHF fund leads to the same pool of people you are marketing to, ie, existing Hive members. There will not be any meaningful growth this way.

Excellent thinking! Even though to be honest, I don't really know much about the DHF aside that it gives a ton to Splinterlands and to maintain the HBD peg.

Feels like now the DHF just acts as a cash cow which dumps the price more with not much in return. It would be nice to see some stake in the product that is developed and funded by the DHF that afterward give some kind of return.

I came here through Splinterlands and I think it does this role well. Other projects need to be born, or go beyond the embryonic phase, and for this a financial focus is essential because it brings professionalism to the management of resources and processes (I hope).

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I think that would be a nice change to the DHF. As it is right now, I do think that there is a lot of spending and not much being added to Hive. It makes me wonder because of how hard Splinterlands's DHF proposal failed until some compromises were made alter.

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The DHF seems to give the opposite incentive to projects and then many (not all) then seem to stop developing and just relax with their new funding.

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Hmm Splinterlands... I felt that the game/finances could have been managed better over these years, I know of so many people who have either played less or have stopped playing altogether, and I don't think it's just about monetary rewards.

I agree that the DHF is a cunning approach, but the problem can be in the details. Also, DHF does not guarantee funding for the whole project duration because one option is that it has to reach a certain limit, which someone, a whale, can quickly melt down if they don't like your project. On the other hand, as @mypathtofire mentioned, some who have reached that limit are just living on their laurels. It seems to me that we still have a lot to learn in this decentralized world.