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So far we have made money in 3 ways: 1) By selling Passes that let people use our app, 2) By receiving grants from Optimism, Gitcoin, Warpcast, and Purple, 3) By organizing writing contests with projects such as Gnosis and Lens.", "hidden": false, "question": "Funding Sources (how is the project financed outside of this round)", "questionId": 1}, {"type": "number", "answer": "2", "hidden": false, "question": "Team Size (including full and part time)", "questionId": 2}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Our app has been helping the crypto community (1,300+ monthly visitors, 100 daily active users) to curate the most important crypto news, essays, and products. We are an industry focused news publication. \n\nWe consider ourselves collaboration technology because we bring all of Ethereum on the same page, whereas X and FC rather disperse attention, our feed collectivizes curation. Wanna know what\u2019s important today without much distractions? Just visit our main page!", "hidden": false, "question": "How is the project CollabTech?", "questionId": 3}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "The crypto space needs reform direly. For decades now, Hacker News has acted as a sort of regulatory organ for the elite decision makers in Silicon Valley. Tech culture is down stream of Hacker News, and so this means culture is defined there and flows into the main stream. Hacker News is tremendously important as collaborative and coordinative technology in the web2 space. Ask any web2 dev what\u2019s going on today and they\u2019ll highly likely quote a headline they read on HN today.\n\nThe reason Hacker News has persisted as this institution is because it isn\u2019t subjected to the same growing pains as Reddit, Facebook, or Twitter. They haven\u2019t had to optimize growth for the marginal user, they were able to *just* serve nerds!\n\nKiwi News wants to be like Hacker News, but for the developers, decision-makers and investors in the Ethereum space. We want to move away from atomizing the individual with personalized feeds. We want to create a shared perception and experience of what crypto is throughout the news cycle.\n\nKiwi News is the anti-thesis of Twiter, Reddit and Facebook: On Kiwi everyone reads the feed and everyone has to decide whether a link is worth someone else\u2019s time (a user can decide to upvote a link). This moves getting attention from a game of identity and nepotism to a game of merit. You have a good link? You\u2019ll likely get upvotes!\n\nWe are in the middle of growing our platform, it is still small, but our hope is that eventually we can influence Ethereum culture for the better, by not making them chase the next casino memecoin, but by thinking critically about how crypto can bring about a meaningful impact to society.", "hidden": false, "question": "Who's the targeted user group and what's the need/problem being addressed?", "questionId": 4}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Kiwi News is run as a very strongly principled organization. We have no legal entity and we\u2019ve never sold equity for venture capital. In blog posts and on social media, we have marketed the project as having to serve, first and foremost, our users (those who mint our NFT), and not venture capital investors, as this would make us serve them, not our users.\n\nKiwi News is run on the same algorithm as Farcaster. This means anyone can download our entire database and run a fork of the website. The entire code base of Kiwi News, EVERYTHING, is open source and licensed under AGPL or GPL.\n\nWe\u2019ve continuously told our community that we want to bootstrap an independent social media, and, that we want a credible neutral result. Hence, if we were to pivot away from these principles it would be possible for the community to self organize and fork the project. This balance of power helps us to stay aligned and serve our community as a public good over chasing venture capital returns.\n\nOur threshold (minimum amount of funds to complete the feature and deliver value) is $2,000.", "hidden": true, "question": "How do you ensure value keeps being delivered after the round is over? (How will the project become commercially sustainable or a perennial good? )", "questionId": 5}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Here are a few features we have high conviction on and what we\u2019d like to work on for 1 month after receiving the money:\n\n1) We\u2019ve recently launched onchain ads powered by Harberger tax. But there isn\u2019t a user interface yet and so our customers currently have to use Etherscan to set up ads. With the funding, we want to build a simple user interface to grow the revenue generated from these ads. \n\nWe also want to work on designing and marketing the offer to customers. We\u2019ve seen that providing white glove service to potential customers is a way to get them engaged in running a campaign.\n\n2) Redesign parts of the site. Last week we\u2019ve received new mockups from a designer which cleaned up some of the page. We want to implement these designs, they\u2019re quite expansive, but these designs look great and we can\u2019t wait to implement them!", "hidden": true, "question": "How long will it take after funding is received to deliver value? 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If it really matters, they will find it on Kiwi.\n\nAll our links, upvotes and comments are stored on a decentralized P2P protocol with an architecture similar to Farcaster. This means that anyone can build their own Kiwi app with different algorithms, designs, and moderation.", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectGithub": "attestate", "projectTwitter": "KiwiNewsHQ"}, "recipient": "0x1337E2624ffEC537087c6774e9A18031CFEAf0a9"}}