Software Bootstrap As DAO

Sept'2021: pondering how to sketch out a small software bootstrap, what a DAO model would add to a BetterMeans + GruntFund framework. (ToWrite)

(lots of copying/forking below from TaskCloud)

Context/goals/problem

• You and a couple other folks have an idea for a software product/SasS, and you'd all like (eventually) to quit your DayJobs and focus on it.

Meta/related: what about non-task items? A team wiki?

Forces:

• Different people have different amounts of time to offer.
• A given person's time investment will change over time.
• Different people have different kinds of skills to offer (dev, strategy, design, marketing/marcom, community growing).
• Even if participating for intrinsic reasons, having the possibility of a financial compensation can increase motivation (note counter-arguments where motivation is reduced by rewards).
• People will participate in multiple groups. Some are even offline!
• People don't want their out-of-group tasks visible to the group/public.
• Running software (in the cloud) costs money.
• Some tasks/deliverables are more urgent/important at a given point in time to deliver value.
• If one person is 20% done with a task and gets busy with other things, it might make sense for someone else to take it over.
• If one person is 80% done with a task and gets busy with other things, it might not make sense for someone else to take it over.
• Within a group
• ??