RE: Open Mithril Development Framework Proposal

I have read through the proposal and looked at some of the linked pages. My comments/questions are oriented in the same vein as I would apply to any project seeking DHF funding for development or marketing. Essentially I am aiming to ensure everyone is clear about what exactly is being offered, how the success will be measured, is the offer good value and whether there is demand/need for the work in the first place.

In my previous DHF proposal for @strategizer that was oriented towards market research, I pointed out that it is often futile to invest in any kind of development or marketing without first really knowing that there will be a return on it. This requires some form of research, up front. Unfortunately, it seems that many people on Hive are not so enthusiastic about measurements of necessity and success being applied to DHF payouts, so the proposal did not get funded.

In any case, if we are concerned about the goal of growing and optimising Hive, we at least need to appreciate where the low-hanging fruit are and how to invest sustainably, rather than just throwing money in a direction we imagine might be helpful. So this means understanding the needs of the target audience and catering to them. In the case of developers, it's clear that Hive is not providing an attractive enough package to attract them in droves. While VSC adds a great deal of potential from a developer perspective, we still need solid libraries and most fundamentally, great education and marketing.

As with most technical/creative tasks, every single person has a differing capacity to complete them and the quality/usefulness will vary depending on a variety of factors.

In the case of this DHF proposal, I am not 100% clear what specific problems are being addressed and in what way. Is the problem that development resources on Hive are not professionally enough documented or coded? Is the problem that non developers don't have access to ways to build on Hive? Which exact aspects of this will the DHF project solve?

I recall reading direct mention of forking/improving on code libraries, plus of marketing them via podcasts. I am not clear on what new micro services would be developed and what the potential market for them is. The examples of existing micro services are not likely to be very exciting to most people in the ever evolving Web 3 world - they are typically very Hive oriented and not particularly cutting edge.

In essence, you seem to be asking for money to pay for developer/admin time, to perform marketing and to operate hardware - but there is no mention of what that will exactly result in.

• How many hours of labour are the people being paid by the DHF commiting towards the work in return?
• How efficiently do they work as compared to a contractor from one of the marketplaces for such work?
• What hardware is required? What specifications? Is the quoted/requested figure a good value deal?
• What new micro services are planned to be developed?
• What evidence is there that micro services are valued by target audiences on and off Hive? (What anaytics data can corroborate this - as a minimum).
• What marketing strategy exists to ensure that any podcasts or media produced from this project are effective and draw in target audience eyeballs? The highly competitive world of 'online attention' is full of podcasts and channels with almost no viewers.

In summation - while I want to see developer resources drastically improved on Hive, the details are important.

Cheers!