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I agonized over writing this comment as I suspect it will get me a lot of hate, but was encouraged by a few nouners so here it is.
In late 2023 we at BCard partnered with the NNS team to create a nounish debit card. The idea was that we would provide a custom card for free to the Nounish community (something for which we would normally charge $15,000 USD), and NNS would help us with distribution and connection with the Nouns ecosystem
We worked with dotnouns.eth on design and execution. One sticking point was that dotnouns wanted an Apple Pay/Google Wallet card immediately at launch, which would cost BCard another $5,000 USD straight to our card provider. We were already doing a lot for free so we were hesistant, but dotnouns said he would pay for this, so we spent the money upfront with our card provider.
At launch, NNS released a blog article and frame for the card and...promptly ghosted us. The agree upon co-marketing didn't materialize and neither did the $5K that Dom/dotnouns.eth personally promised us.
I tried to put it behind me, but then NNS posted a propdate which PROMINENTLY included BCard's work as something they did: https://www.updates.wtf/prop/473
I reached out to dotnouns and he said we would work it out after his prop (711) passed. When 711 passed, he ghosted me again.
I've kept my silence until now because I don't want to have this negativity around me, but if I'm being honest this ordeal has made me mistrust the entire Nouns ecosystem.
It's not just the $20,000 USD that we gave away for free. It's the idea that if dotnouns.eth, a very prominent and popular community member would do this to us, who else did he do it to? How many updates in his propdates are legitimate? And how many nouners are complicit in their support and actions?
I've walked away from Nouns are a result of this, but I am leaving this vote in the spirit of the DAO.