aljaz on Nostr: a lot of funding info can be found from https://opensats.org/blog/2024-year-in-review ...
a lot of funding info can be found from https://opensats.org/blog/2024-year-in-review
even "for profit" companies are to some extent subsidies with grants, which is good as at least some things get built but its also killing signal/noise ratio since grants don't really provide market signals as to what makes sense to build and what just exists because people have cashflow to do it
a lot of time and resources is being donate to the cause but sooner or later we need to figure out how to get ppl to pay for stuff and how to monetize things and the longer we supplement this with grants the longer we postpone the real world test of is there a market for this.
then again, freedom tech never pays so maybe we're just frontrunning this and silently admitting it to ourselves?
even "for profit" companies are to some extent subsidies with grants, which is good as at least some things get built but its also killing signal/noise ratio since grants don't really provide market signals as to what makes sense to build and what just exists because people have cashflow to do it
a lot of time and resources is being donate to the cause but sooner or later we need to figure out how to get ppl to pay for stuff and how to monetize things and the longer we supplement this with grants the longer we postpone the real world test of is there a market for this.
then again, freedom tech never pays so maybe we're just frontrunning this and silently admitting it to ourselves?