Nouns DAO

tl;dr Retro fund 10 ETH to Wilson Cusack (proposer) for work on Nouns governance client, voter.wtf.

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Background Motivation Traction Ask

Background

Two months ago, I started work on voter.wtf. I wanted to create speedy, vote-with-reason-focused governance client for Nouns. 30k+ lines of code later, it is minimally fully featured and well loved.

voter.wtf has pioneered several unique features

• Homepage features a timeline of all votes across proposals.
• Proposal pages feature side by side FOR and AGAINST votes, for easy comparison and context setting.
• Votes can be “liked” via web3 wallet signature.
• Non delegates, in addition to delegates, can vote on any proposal.
• At glance view of which props you have voted on and which you still need to.
• reVoteWithReason: quickly vote with reason by quoting someone else’s reason in your vote. (Twitter roundup of these features, with images)

The code is open source and under MIT license. The site currently has no cost overhead: it runs on Vercel free tier and only relies on the Nouns DAO subgraph.

Motivation

Aside from making the speedy, vote-with-reason-centric client that I myself wanted to use, the meta goal of the project is to help Nouns by

1. Attempting to encourage vote with reason, so that we can better understand each other’s perspectives–developing a sort of “case law” for what Nouns is–and push Nouns to be the #1 place for thoughtful DAO participants.
2. Present Nouns DAO as a sort of game that can be played. I call the site a “Nouns DAO console.” We don’t have exciting prop outcomes to share every week, but we do have proposal drama every week, and that’s something!

Traction

I am most proud of the feedback I shared above and the mint comments below. I hope we’ll see more positive feedback come in the votes. Admittedly, I have been cheap and don’t have great site analytics. Here is trailing 30 days from Vercel, however it flatlines when my free-tier usage maxes out 😅.

Here are analytics from another service, which I added on the 15th.

Vote support went live on the 12th and you can also track some usage via the sent from voter.wtf you see in the vote reasons.

Ask

I am asking for 10 ETH retro funding to compensate, recognize, and appreciate the work so far. If funded, I am hopeful that this can serve as a model to some subset of developers who want to work with the DAO: hack on something on your own time and try to get some traction. If it proves useful to the DAO, come and ask for retro funding.

Thanks for reading :) VwR!

P.S. If you feel compelled, there is also an OE you can mint to support. Comments on the mints so far :)