Nouns

We've decided to sunset Nouns Grants as it failed to generate the impact we wanted to see.

We're doing what we can to take care of current applicants in the funnel but wont be taking any more applications.

Thanks for taking part in and being supportive of this experiment!

Its been almost a month since we launched Nouns Grants -- a few takeaways:

Application format

- The application form is performing well with >1 new application per day at current rate. Required video seems like a big boon; adding credibility and ease of digesting proposals. Surprisingly, outright spam has been very low and (subjectively) the quality of applicants high.

- So far so good. Lots of growth potential. However, two downstream bottlenecks adds uncertainty and make it awkward to heavily promote Nouns Grants. Lets take a look at each and how they can be solved:

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Gaming

(mandatory) video proposals are such a game changer

Nouns Camp

@olli added CMD + K navigation to Camp 💅

AMA —

I'm doing an AMA/community call on Nouns Grants and our vision for Nouns today (Friday), 4 PM ET: https://discord.gg/JGPeHwnJ. 

(If there's demand, we'll do another one next week.)

Looking forward to share more of our thought process!

Today, we're launching Nouns Grants (nounsgrants.com), a new product from the team behind Camp.

Nouns Grants is our shot at reimagining Nouns as a leading grantmaking org. It's a vision of Nouns where our unique, community-driven grant process stands at the center, and everything else is secondary.

If youre curious about the process and interface you can play around at sepolia.nounsgrants.com

krel

Parenting

as you get older you forget how this can utterly ruin your day. Nay, the day of an entire family or even small neighborhood

my clothes are lumpy and EVERYTHING IS CANCELLED!!

your greatest fear as a kid is lumpy, unruly clothes

If youre:
- actively working on a funded nouns prop
- thinking about proposing/working on a draft

join the camp community discord — id like to help!

https://discord.gg/EvAzqBTF8x

doing another open-ended voice call friday at 10am ET

good topics
- share ideas about your upcoming prop
- tell us about your current prop, wins, difficulties
- how to fix nouns

doing another open-ended voice call friday at 10am ET

good topics
- share ideas about your upcoming prop
- tell us about your current prop, wins, difficulties
- how to fix nouns

https://discord.gg/sw6yB7zb?event=1365221198816084019

If youre:
- actively working on a funded nouns prop
- thinking about proposing/working on a draft

join the camp community discord — id like to help!

doing another Camp community voice call in ~3h (9am ET)

discord.gg/EvAzqBTF8x

https://discord.gg/EvAzqBTF8x

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The Nouns Camp community server is an attempt to strengthen the network effects of Nouns. I believe we can do a much better job supporting the people we fund, through good and hard times, success and failure. The core idea of this server is to develop a peer support system that acts as a companion and an additional benefit to recipients of Nouns funding.

Further uses and cliques may sprout from that core idea. I want this to be a highly experimental server where we can iterate quickly to figure out and meet community needs, with the ultimate goal of growing Nouns. We might run office hours and scheduled group calls, we might add a section for Nouns patrons (token owners). We might develop more onboarding for newcomers.

Chatting about nouns in public-voice channel for next 30min — open topic

building /camp (nouns.camp) and nounsgrants.com