Hi, sorry for the late reply.
As the leader of VP-funded projects, I can assure you that we seek the best for Hive, with the least possible investment. What we receive is spent over as long a period as possible, so that it does not cause selling pressure. This way, it has almost no impact on the markets. We also publish reports on all the work we do. We make constant adjustments to improve results. The most difficult thing for us is user retention.
VP should exist, although in my opinion there are some of its projects that I would discard in order to include new ones. There is room for improvement.
Dapps should invest in marketing. Dapps must have their own business models. Dapps need to be seen as centralized businesses in a decentralized ecosystem, and dapp owners are business owners who need to invest in marketing and make their businesses profitable. To me, it makes no sense for someone to create a business and then have others do the marketing work for free. This would ease the burden on the VP and DHF budgets.
I also don't think dapps should be funded forever.
Thanks for responding. How would you determine which projects would continue and which would stop getting funding?
Regarding dapps, I alto think it's an important topic and probably lots of room for improvement there. There's not much collaboration, for example, and many things are being re-built by each dapp. But good to keep the focus on valueplan here and leave dapps as a related discussion that can be had.
Any project exceeding $50,000 per year should submit a proposal directly to the DHF.