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I’m in the minority here, but I’m skeptical of the DAOs ability to successfully fund offchain software.

- Funding for non-public goods software is a solved problem
- Software gradually decays even when open source (does the DAO need to pay maintainers forever?)
- Judging quality is by committee is suboptimal

Immutable protocols and onchain art swim with the current and work well with the DAO funding model

But I’m all for experimentation. There’s always going to be some friction for onchain organizations to fund offchain activities

This only gets easier by trying new things and learning from mistakes

- Completeness is non-binary (propdates helps with us)
- How do you attract the best talent when funding competition is the norm?

Compare this with funding something like onchain art:

- ✅ Maintenance free (build once, lives forever)
- ✅ Completeness is binary
- ✅ Quantitatively judge success (# of mints)

Look at the rest of the thread (added some context)

I could write more about this but the competition bit is important. Having all these great governance clients is awesome for the DAO, but isn’t this demotivating as a builder? Are they expected to maintain their clients forever?

yes, which is why I think we should focus on funding public software. 

non-public (non-open source) software has enough capital competition that nouns treasury and governance structure is not well suited to compete.