Unfortunately the incentives are so much higher for scamming/milking/defrauding Hive than helping it with projects such as yours.
It is the usual problem of opensource or community work, we can't choose it over my mortgage and paying the bills, and without the right connections you can't get even a tiny drop from the firehose of cash that these "promotional" projects get.
But hey someone out there gets some free cardio so the benefits will arrive any day now! Annnnyyyyy dayyyyy ....
Dunno, I think I'd be able to get some initiatives I've been running funded, I'm just unsure how they'd scale and if it'd be worth it for the ecosystem. I'm also a bit weirded out by the dhf and the way some treat and how they expect funding from it. It just feels like I'd wanna try without it as much as I can.
I would be happy and willing to help any worthy projects with programming, content, project/product management, or marketing but right now I have more month than money so I couldn't do a lot of heavy lifting. That's why funding is so important, otherwise you only get the fun or easy stuff done.