Thanks @Mico, I agree. I think this would be a much better use for the Neurons Fund. The community hasn’t been very good at appraising which SNS’ are worthy recipients of the Neurons Fund. I think this is mostly because SNS’ come in many shapes and sizes and there’s no easy way for the community to inspect them and gauge whether or not the Neurons Fund would be well-spent.
However something like what we’re fleshing out and proposing in this discussion is much more specific and limited in scope (and should therefore be much easier for the community to appraise proposals to make use of those funds). The sorts of things to check would always be the same (and wouldn’t be anywhere as hard or specialised as reviewing SNS dapp code and/or establishing market fit):
Interestingly the Neurons Fund has been suspended for use by SNS launches.
I think the Neurons Fund should instead be repurposed. It’s always going to be the target for abuse if applied to SNS launches (in my opinion).