As one of the people receiving funds from the DHF for dev work, I can say I really welcome posts like this that scrutinize who is receiving funding, how much, and what is being delivered.
I am not really sure about devs checking the work of other devs. Maybe it is possible and viable. I just don't know.
One thing that might work is to have some kind of talks or interviews where projects receiving funding periodically go to give an update to the community. And the community can ask questions. And the community can maybe get a better sense of what challenges there are and whether a project is delivering appropriately or not, and decide to support or stop supporting a project. Just an idea.
I honestly think it should be a requirement to have updates. If you're not writing an article to explain what you're working on and accomplishing then how is anyone suppose to know. The main issue however at least in terms of business structure with startups I've worked with is devs have a VERY hard time communicating to ever day users what they are doing. It's normally way too techy and over their heads while users simply just care about the front end they are seeing and what it does for them. It's often the reason you have someone between the dev and the community lol to act as that filter and present it in a hyped up way while showing value. Now don't get me wrong some devs are good at both but they are very rare.
Yep. Show updates or funding is revoked.
I dont see any other options right now. They understand the material and the work.
The problem is that the community doesnt understand the work. We could be told anything in a convincing manner and we would believe it because we dont understand the relations between effort, work, pay.
The scrutiny needs to come from devs themselves. A self check system or someone actually paying attention to whats done and pointing to it.
What about giving the money after they showed work done.
That would make it logic and simple.
Not like they wouldnt be paid but the otherway around is obviously and also logically a big issue.
We pay for a service done and dish we ate.