Will likes to eat and live in a house. Infrastructure isn't all that much. It's more about spending 80 hours a week working on Damus and not having another job to pay the bills.
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Just adding to your comment: There are a long list of people working on Damus, of which I believe Will and Daniel are full time. That’s a lot of work to fund all by itself.
And yes, Damus relay undoubtedly costs some decent $$ with the volume of posts going through it.
lol I mean I understand that. I wasn’t aware that this was a full time gig for him. We need to find a way to fund this.
Like I said. I was really ignorant about it all. I really didn’t know
I'm being facetious of course .
I don't use the Damus app , but it is a vital part of the Nostr ecosystem , and shit , I don't know what the solution is here , how do we fix this ? Do we crowdfund using Bitcoin ?
Hey @nobody , what's happening ? What would you say are the biggest costs associated with a project like Damus, speaking as someone that knows nothing about this sort of thing ?
Crowdfunding is a band-aid fix and is not sustainable. It's probably fine for the first year or two, but not much longer than that. It needs an actual funding model in the future. Build the tech. Survive on funding/donations. When the tech is ready and able, get a million users. If 1% pay for premium subscription services then you're set.