I’m looking for ideas to build in public a community-inspired dev roadmap that drives toward shared priorities and indicates interest for sponsorship dollars or contributions.

Which engineering orgs do these best in web3?

I help people create communities and tell stories. Current: Shipyard (IPFS & libp2p maintainers), Ex: Uniswap Foundation & Variant

not web3, but Steam Early Access comes to mind as a potentially useful example - making folks pay up front for the game (at a reduced $) and providing channels for feedback helps qualify/improve the quality of feedback while a game is in a pre-release state (vs opening floodgates completely)