So what happened to Stakedog Sam? or David? or both of you?
Did you kill it?
And I can see you are blaming DFINITY and the community.
And I can see you are extremely bitter about all of it esp. with all the caps.
You know for every 100 ideas, VC’s turn down like 99 so why should DFINITY be any different even if they have set aside “hundreds of millions” just like the VC’s set aside billions?
Not every idea is a great idea.
And yeah there has been serious waste in the community and there still is some but I don’t think DFINITY set out to purposely waste funds. The grants program and the SNS and the Hubs may have led to unscrupulous types who figured they could leech off essentially “free money” and get away with it just like the majority of crypto has attracted mostly criminals and moochers producing little to no value.
Yes, ideally the best ideas and the best teams should be funded.
The way I feel about all this having been a serial entrepreneur my entire life is that if you truly believe in your idea and its potential to make money then you don’t let anything stop you from getting it done whether that be needing to give some of your equity away or having to borrow funds or having to raise funds in other ways or even financing it yourself. In fact, if you finance it yourself, then you don’t need to do an SNS launch at all and you keep your dapp private and you have full control.
ICP, DFINITY, or not, all entrepreneurs face similar challenges regarding capital.
As for Caffeine, yes, there is competition in web2 however since it is being integrated for UTOPIA and enterprise use as well as being release to individuals, this should hopefully make it cheaper and faster to prototype ideas and to flesh them out so that you can get your pitch deck made in order to pitch investors on your idea and use case whether that be defi or whatever you feel will produce a lot of revenue.
The fact that dapps produced on ICP will retain data upon updates is niche as well as the simplified stack. I believe they will also have this working with Rust in addition to Motoko eventually as well.
Personally, I believe DFINITY is focused and on the right track to get people to consider building on ICP as well as UTOPIA going forward and it is all bullish imo.
If I was disgruntled like you guys and James Allan and Omar Salmeron who has nothing but bitterness to expend here on the forum and elsewhere for not being granted or having community support, then I would be biased in a negative fashion. Remember the saying is “fail fast” and DFINITY has made mistakes no doubt however ultimately I believe they are on the right track despite all the criticisms.
I’m sorry you feel left out. I’ve had many businesses or projects that I put a lot of effort into that ultimately didn’t work out. I’ve never given up though so if you guys have given up, that’s on you.
Being cry babies that DFINITY has not treated you fairly doesn’t move you forward in business or in life. You made the decision to fail by not wanting to give up any equity to outside investors many of whom would be better for your project than DFINITY even. Many of whom would not let you try to “organically market” and instead would lead you to faster success with real marketing dollars in use.
Thank you for the feedback but your negativity and bitterness are not useful for the community or for yourselves.