I‘ve been told on private that Kiwi is supposed to be eligible. But how? I don‘t see our project appear clearly in the criteria

maybe it fits because it’s an ongoing ethereum-native media project with some impact and clear potential to grow

Yeah maybe. But I already applied last round (but it was a protocol/tech round) and to me the filling-in of forms and dealing with the bureaucracy of applying there is very tedious. I somehow cannot make my mind go through all of this.

So here's a call for help! Whoever has time and wants their time commitment to be covered, I'd be happy to pass onto you the amount it will take for you to fill out forms etc. so you, whoever you are, could apply on my or the community's behalf.

Pls DM me on TG for details!

I guess this one would require coming up with a project for which you request funding?

I reckon the nature of Kiwi would lend itself to get people to curate or create according to a specific broader theme or a sort of contest.

They say it's about stories, so maybe the project could just be a compilation of sharing stories from the founders behind bootstrapped/ often overseen/ underfunded/ projects with real users (like Kiwi ^^).

Pretty sure there's at least five such projects.

They say "believe in something", who does that better than those going as far as bootstrapping to build on ethereum?

But wait, would this be retrospective as always with Octant? So you‘d have to explain [what you said Naomi] but looking at what we have done in eg the last year.

Wait I‘ll read this in detail to make sure I‘m not off here

Ah ok so it is both forward and backward looking.

From what I understood, they look at your past track record to decide whether they want to fund the project you submit for funding :)

That's why you need a creative story project to be eligible. I do think with Kiwis current track record, and a decent idea there's a good chance.

Idk if I have it in me to fill out this life draining form once again just to get a dumb ass rejection because I have overlooked some dumbass rule or because the evaluator was too stupid to recognize what we‘re trying to do

But what would you apply with? Just continue running Kiwi? Or do they want something extra?