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We anticipated the release of our first propdate!
https://www.updates.wtf/update/711-1
Since we are constantly in touch with builders and communities, many of you might already know part of it. Anyway, we took the opportunity to share other exciting developments that we were supposed to release in a couple of weeks.
We also added urls to past posts on X and Farcaster if you want to dive more into our journey and everything that happened in these 2.5 months.
So many exciting things in such a short period of time, can't wait for what's coming next!
We got dozens of DMs these days. As always, we’re extremely grateful for the incredible support!
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> I’m sorry I missed this as a candidate. Had I seen this before or received any kind of mention/DM, I would have replied immediately!
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> Anyway.
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> Since 2022, Nouns and NNS have been our full-time job, and we’ve consistently delivered, no matter how ambitious or crazy the product might have seemed.
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> We were never informed that monthly updates were required, so we had planned for quarterly updates instead.
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> From the start of this year, we never stopped building.
> We are constantly in close contact with builders, communities, and Nouners to shape our products around their needs.
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> In fact, a lot of nouners and community builders can confirm we are currently working or brainstorming solutions to support their communities or projects.
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> Historically, we’ve always dedicated Q1 to the development of the mvp of a core product that can make the whole network of products stronger throughout the year.
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> Last year, it was NOGS.
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> This year, it’s an AI agent with the goal to simplify any nounish onchain action and then unlock new monetization flows for the DAO.
> And this year’s Q1 was even more important as Prop 711 was our final NounsDAO prop.
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> Q1 is also important to create plans with communities to speed up the development of new features across the year and improve the most promising parameters of the current products(that’s why these months we focused so much on Governance, both on tech and UX, and on growing the pool of Noun)
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> Being the only funded team that develops multiple nounish products annually, we must strategically allocate our energy and resources to maximize their impact within the ecosystem.
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> For our most ambitious mandate, we’ve structured every improvement and release across a one-year timeframe, similar to what we did with the past successful mandates, where we planned our moves during the lifespan of the props.
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> Careful planning is essential to absorb not only the 30% budget cut from the original budget but also local taxes, all while maintaining the high level of execution that led us to secure our third mandate in 3 years.
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> With this mandate, we’ve taken on the significant responsibility of reviving communities and demonstrating to the DAO that funding proposals can be both impactful and profitable.
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> We don’t take this lightly. That’s why we’ll continue to develop bold products and make bold decisions to bring this vision to life.
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> - Vika has been behind the content of every NNS product since 2022. Initially, she provided support while also working with major Web2 brands, but given the importance of this mandate, she made the decision to focus on NNS Labs exclusively.
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> Like any other NOGS holder, she earned tickets through a modest 33M NOGS holding and used them to participate in a few Noggles Club drops. As tickets are limited and the prize values are currently relatively low (she didn’t participate in the Nouns Vision drops, for example), I never considered this an issue.
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> However, that was clearly my mistake. A few days ago, I already thanked Pipe for the feedback and I confirmed that team members will no longer participate in the Noggles Club raffles.
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> - Andrea (@apbigcod) and I have worked together since our very first Round on Prop House in April 2022. He’s the experienced developer behind every single product and update we’ve launched over the past three years.
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> - Since our mandate follows a one-year timeline, the white-label platform, designed to help revive communities like SharkDAO, will be implemented in Q2. This development will be enhanced by features from our AI agent, enabling DAOs to automate operations and reduce friction. Since our resources are limited and there is a massive tech work to be done, this is the period of the year in which we will start to increase the support from additional devs.
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> - Our current designer is now finalizing the AI agent MVP. Once that’s completed, they’ll shift focus to designing the Noggles Club and the White Label platform while we complete the agent release and its integration with $nogs and NounsDAO.
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> CONCLUSION
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> I’m extremely excited about the recent focus of the DAO on revenue growth and I even believe in the NounsBreakEvenMovement.
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> But to be honest, as a team who has worked with Nouns since forever it was quite automatic for us to organize our work and updates the way we always did.
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> Everyone in the DAO knows I’ve never been super social in the open (my fault) and that I have always preferred to talk more through DMs than on my public profiles/channels.
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> However, if the DAO now requires monthly onchain updates, we will obviously be happy to oblige.
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> Maybe we could make monthly updates mandatory for every successful prop, but then we could just notify the builders instead of getting alarmed if that doesn’t happen automatically.
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> Anyway, I understand that the recent events have shaken the DAO, but the fact that we are possibly one of the very few teams that continued to ask for a Stream instead of the entire amount upfront should only be further proof of our continuous and undeterred dedication to the Nouns ecosystem.
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> I seriously hope this answers anyone’s doubts, but I’m always here for anything.
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> Your position is perfectly understandable Jane, in fact I didn’t even mention it in my comment.
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> 1. Since we started, in every mandate we always felt the moral duty to overdeliver and push boundaries to achieve things that no one in Nouns considered possible. Moral duty towards those who voted FOR and a challenge to change the minds of the AGAINST. Your support always meant the world to us and, exactly like the other 2 mandates, this time we won’t disappoint either.
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> 2. The day before the candidate, I’ve received a DM from a community member with exactly the same text of this prop. I immediately answered to every point and after a day of chatting I thought the situation was cleared. Instead, after a few hours, a candidate with the same text was published from another member.
> Unfortunately, nobody notified me about this candidate, I didn’t see it in my feed and I found out about it only when it became a prop.
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> My fault for not checking the candidates daily, maybe.
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> Had I seen the candidate or received a ping of any sort I would have replied immediately, just like I did to that community member’s DM and just like I’m doing here.
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> 3. I never thought that was the case, both because I know firsthand how difficult it is to reach you by DM and I also know and value the importance you give to onchain communication. To me it was clear that you sponsoring this was a way to bring the matter to our attention.
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> For the future, since the current clients don’t support tags or notifications I just think it could be useful to notify the builders offchain in some way if there is an important topic about them, as we all know that candidates can be overlooked. Or maybe using the actual Topic function could be useful in cases like this one, instead of going out directly with a prop.
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> 4. You know this is reciprocal. I appreciate this comment and I see this just as an additional reason to overdeliver in this mandate like we did in the other 2.
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> Sincerely hoping to be able to do so with the continued support from the DAO.
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> +1
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> > Some explanations here:
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> > 1. Without my votes, Prop 711 would never have passed. I was the decisive vote that pushed it through despite opposition from 4156 and noun40. Because of this, I feel responsible for ensuring that the team addresses the community’s concerns.
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> > 2. Unfortunately, after Wylin’s candidate proposal went onchain, I waited for two days and saw no response from the team. This is disappointing. I do not want a proposal that I supported to lack proactive and smooth communication with the community.
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> > 3. Wylin has never contacted me privately, nor has he sent me a DM. I prefer not to engage in private lobbying through DMs. Instead, I strongly believe that all governance discussions and lobbying should take place onchain and in the open. I will uphold this principle consistently.
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> > 4. Actually I quiet like dotnouns, I even considered delegate all my Nouns to Nogs, so I can use Nogs as a proxy to vote.
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> > 5. To those questioning my actions: you will see how it goes.