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How to support devs in early stages pre-product: 

Send them crypto.

That's it.

hear me out

creator coin platform where you send crypto to the creator

and they keep it

that’s it

🎯 I'm reminded of "The Hacker Milieu as Gift Culture," "The Hacker Ethic," and other writings from open-source culture that make a case for funding creative work in ways that decouple financial incentives from performance.

Especially for trusted devs, creators, CLPs, etc., in the Farconomy whose previous work is already known in the ecosystem and respected for its quality, I think this makes a great deal of sense. 

Let them choose their new projects out of intrinsic motivation, and just send them crypto at a level that covers their basic needs so they can focus their full attention on the work. 

That's it. No performance metrics, no grant applications, no strings attached.

🎯 I'm reminded of "The Hacker Milieu as Gift Culture," "The Hacker Ethic," and other writings from open-source culture that make a case for funding creative work in ways that decouple financial incentives from performance.

Especially for trusted devs, creators, CLPs, etc., in the Farconomy whose previous work is already known in the ecosystem and respected for its quality, I think this makes a great deal of sense. 

Let them choose their new projects out of intrinsic motivation, and just send them crypto at a level that covers their basic needs so they can focus their full attention on the work. 

That's it. No performance metrics, no grant applications, no strings attached.

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And most importantly: 

No meme coin that the dev has to manage and promote to inflate their revenue potential by dumping into supporters while traders extract value along the way.

Either side of the proverbial coin is bad when admin/marketing work is directly tied to funding, vs actual output: 

1. Burnout of quality producers
2. Supporter rugging from producers who only do admin/marketing work and never ship or ship low quality results that are obfuscated by unnecessary complexity/hype

I'd take that even further: across the board, minimize the additional admin/management effort that's *required* for the dev/creator/CLP to get funded.

This can be framed as a way of recognizing that they've got their hands plenty full with the demands of the dev/creative/CLP work already. 

The more additional labor they have to take on to fund the creative work, the higher the risk of burnout.