Love it! We don't experiment enough with hardware tech, and I think this is a fun idea worth exploring (with the added bonus of bringing revenue back to the DAO as well).

there's an opportunity to get even weirder here to break out of the noise. flamethrower or burnt hair next please

The prop - beautiful CC0 cultural artefact that's nounish in nature; presented and engineered to signify our values and attract people to nouns.

The builder - highly reputable creative engineer with a strong following of talented people to nounspill.

An honour to have onboarded Tigris to nouns and support this prop.

i believe this proposal is an excellent opportunity to support tigris in their creative journey with nouns. while i find the proposal to be on the expensive side, i see it as an investment in a builder who has the potential to grow, develop new skillsets, and learn from this project. my hope is that tigris will continue to innovate and experiment with nouns in the future, ultimately becoming an even stronger contributor to the community.

i believe that in most cases, proposals should be evaluated separately from the builder involved. however, when a builder is directly involved with the proposal, it's essential for me to consider how the project could contribute to their growth and development. fostering the development of our current builders is as crucial as attracting individuals with established platforms, audiences, and products. after all, our existing builders and collaborators are the ones who understand the nouns culture and can directly enrich it. in my opinion, investing in the growth of our builders and collaborators holds more long-term value than simply "buying" our way into high-profile collaborations, such as a mr. beast video.

I think this is a big spend for the DAO with an uncertain return. Regardless, this project seems like one we probably want to roll the dice on.

The proposer clearly is passionate about HW design and has some proof of work (e.g., Zora collab). I think the initial ID of the keychain is a great start, but I hope Nouners can have some influence in the final design. A tangible accessory like this seems like it could be a conversation starter and eventual proliferation medium for Nouns.

The proposer understands the importance of returning some funds to the DAO treasury. I appreciate that they are explicitly setting terms in the prop and there is some (albeit uncertain) path for the DAO to recoup some of our investment.

feels a little expensive but more importantly feels very nounish

Funding an artist with a strong following in a specific niche to create custom CC0 work that proliferates Nouns?? This is, in my opinion, PRECISELY the type of project that the DAO should be backing wholeheartedly.

Approving this proposal would give an artist six months to build out a piece of hardware that has already seen demand and make it available at a relatively low cost. While some may view the funding as solely a "cost for product," it's important to recognize that this investment also has the potential to significantly increase awareness of Nouns within the artist's community.

This proposal presents a unique opportunity to support an artist while simultaneously promoting Nouns. Not only will the hardware itself be a tangible representation of Nouns' values, but the artist's social media efforts and the product's CC0 standing will serve to introduce new people to the Nouns ecosystem and its mission. If this proposal fails to pass, I find myself curious if the DAO's core values are truly about growth, adoption, and proliferation.

nom nom nounish hardware

Nouns succeds when we have 1000x folks like Tigris

This is a really beautiful device that captures the Noun'ish Spirit and reinforces Nouns CC0 brand as extremely high quality art, design and engineering. I love the approach, the opportunity to fund CC0 hardware and the potential for this to proliferate through the entire hardware hacker community.

Unsustainable business model

These seem like fun! Would use.
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awesome builder, sizeable audience and absolutely nounish.

will consider voting for a version of this proposal with better economics. Agree fully with noun12 here

I like this a lot.

as to noun 12's point about like why sell a $230 all-in unit for $50: I think if this is meant to be a sustainable business then thinking about it in those terms makes sense. but this to me is more like nouns funding a one time art project. nouns is subsidizing the creation of the art objects to be given out and having a non-zero price tag ($50) to make sure ppl that actually want them still put some of their own money to get them.

funding this type of art (and building brand value doing so) is something nouns is uniquely suited to do and feel very excited to see this come to life (and other things artists like tigris bring forth in a similar model).

Very cool device and work, I just struggle with spending $230 all-in per unit to sell them for $50 per unit. If they are proliferation and for open source building, why sell them at all at that price, if they will be so cool as to be in demand, why not sell them for a price in the ballpark of their cost or above?

This is neither here nor there in terms of what it is trying to accomplish and I struggle to see how it will accomplish being an efficient open source foundation for building (it's interesting but very very niche) or be good business, as outlined.

In support of using treasury resources to build and promote open source projects related to the Nouns ecosystem and brand. Open Source is the software version of CC0, and I think very aligned with the highest order goals of Nouns DAO. Generally in support of treasury resources going towards open source experiments creation of software & hardware.

Taken from my newsletter Active Governance: https://paragraph.xyz/@thebower/UF6pmJQChyRthUTsBfq7

This is a perfect example of the type of proposals we should be supporting. I have only positives to say about this proposal.

Experienced and influential founder with a proven track record.

Sound distribution and marketing plan.

Amazing product design. Seriously, have you seen the packaging?

Conversation starter and meme proliferator.

DAO's participation in the revenue.

Stellar proposal explaining all the choices and reasoning behind them.

Hell yes.

I wouldn't want one of these and maybe they will probably never sell, but I think giving hardware builders reasonable funding to make interesting things will lead to better final results in the future.

First off – Tigris is the GOAT. Working with her throughout Explorer Grants was a pleasure, and her work is too impressive and fun not to be excited by.

Tigris is the type of creator we NEED building in the Nouns ecosystem.

This prop is very Nounish –funding a proven creator with an audience of other builders to build fun, experimental hardware that can be used for IRL proliferation.

Not only that, but all sales return back to the DAO which offsets the prop cost!

I'm excited about this proposal and hope this is just the first of many collaborations between Tigris and Nouns.

Beautiful hardware and excited to fund an artist spending their full attention on nouns.

These are the type of things that create positive ripples and brand recognition in communities still unaware of nouns.