This is an interesting idea, but I have some major concerns:
- This is completely unproven beyond there being a PoC at Consensys. That means there’s risk it never ships. This is true of any new project.
- Assuming it ships, we also don’t know if the content created will be valuable to Gitcoin community members and widely adopted. It’s not responding to an existing pain point (that I know of) around content creation.
- The proposed future take rate of 7% is very high. If Gitcoin moves $1M in GMV, thats $70K. You could get 40 premium Intercom accounts for that amount.
In summary, I don’t like the idea of Gitcoin paying a team to build something that neither a workstream nor the community asked for. FWIW, this feels like a good candidate for retro funding (after its shipped and impact is more evident). I’m not pooh-poohing the idea, just the request for 20K GTC.