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I am applying for a $5k Developer Grant.

Please review my application and discuss! See DFINITY’s directions for becoming a registered reviewer here. They will be collected by DFINITY. When two weeks passes, DFINITY will release them and they will appear as a new section on this post.

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I’m looking forward to everyone’s input!

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There are already a few dApps, it’s very difficult to earn and therefore pay for maintenance in the long term.

A few at the top of my head:

Even the dashboard is a possible low feature alternative.

I personally would recommend to invest time on problems that haven’t yet been solved for better customer aquisition costs and retention.

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Thank you tiago89! Thanks for sharing these examples and your honest feedback. You make good points about the challenges in this space.

While there are other similar apps already, I’d love to hear more about what problems you think need solving in the ecosystem.

Your insights are really helpful and I appreciate you taking time to comment

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There are many, because the ecosystem is so new and rapidly expanding.

Sometimes the hard part is to match your skills and motivations to what is out there.

Would say a few “source of problems/opportunities”:

  • Services for DAOs/SNSs. Either on organization / treasury / voters management.
  • Bitfinity EVM / DeFi, you can now fork an EVM dApp and empower / expand it with IC superpowers.
  • AI and Twitter
  • Twitter and DeFi
  • Payments kit / on / off ramp on IC dApps.
  • …

But anything that allows for a “shared service” / joint venture, to significantly save costs by deduplicating effort / costs, should be profitable for you to have an “open organization”.

Like Identity Kit helps save costs for all dApp devs. Like nICP helps solve a part of the treasury earn problem by solving the ICP funds, but not the token funds). Like Decide AI helps with Bot prevention with it’s verified credential.
ICP Swap/Kong Swap with Defi, Lendfinity on lending, etc.

Just focus on one real problem out there, and innovate! Innovator first, entrepreneur second.

And no problem in starting small, just focus on already being “useful”, then grants, investment, SNS will come as usage proves it’s a valuable problem.

Hope it helps in some way.

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Thank you so much for such detailed guidance! Your point about focusing on being “useful” first really resonates with me.

Would you mind if I reach out to you occasionally for feedback as I work on narrowing down my focus to one of these problem areas? Your ecosystem insights would be really valuable.