The dev fund has short funds and long ambitions with huge responsibilities. Critical work on moving from zcashd to zebrad comes to mind. We need better developer tools to make building something like this scooter rental easier. I’d like to see smaller steps towards this with smaller budget. Are your running a full node? Can you detect payments and run automation based on payments to this wallet? How are you doing it? Maybe you could write tutorials and howto articles on free2z to journal the progress, help the ecosystem move forward, and gain some ZEC in the process.
I see not much on free2z, you haven’t shared much knowledge there:
I like having a big vision for a goal to guide progress but Zcash needs small steps with small budgets to iteratively move forward. The ecosystem hasn’t done well with big budgets for big goals in general. We need to start breaking up large budgets for large projects in general and reward progress iteratively and granularly.
I’m not saying your budget is too big for the ambition. In fact, it’s extremely small, probably way too small to deliver the whole thing. But, the Zcash ecosystem isnt ready. There are a lot of core priorities that need to get funded. Running a zcash node will be relatively expensive, slow, possibly not too reliable. How are you going to detect the payments? What interface, what programming language? Do you have experience running and upgrading a node and running automation against it?
I’d recommend working with Zechub and Free2Z and making smaller progress for smaller rewards. The ZecHub model has been proven. Break down the work into smaller bites and demonstrate the value step by step. Try things, document the progress, keep the community posted. Active contributors are being rewarded value-for-value.
The plan here would be to start against zcashd and move to zebrad? Probably choose something more like helping to move, test, document zebrad and make that interface great rather than building something against zcashd only to have to port it immediately?