Hey @Tane thank you for reading, for the kind words, and for giving your feedback!
Addressing your feedback:
We don’t believe this is a fair comparison. Building an one-off widget or an internal tool requires a way lower level of commitment and maintenance that is totally different than what we are proposing here. The bulk of the cost in our proposal, pertains to the Maintenance + Hosting line item because it is actually the most valuable service we are proposing to offer to Arbitrum DAO.
On the other hand, with this proposal, we are guaranteeing that whatever happens, Arbitrum DAO will have these feature integrations up to date and reliably working on its governance forum. And everybody that has built quality reliable software before, especially in the DAO governance space, knows this is quite hard to pull off.
Especially when it comes to have reliable governance data. And specifically delegates voting power, which is a really hard thing to get constantly reliable data of.
For example, and I just checked this right now, you can see that @Plutus(0xbbe98d590d7eb99f4a236587f2441826396053d3) voting power is being reported as 954.28K ARB on Tally, but as 954.37K ARB on Karma.
The correct voting power, as per the ARB token contract, at 12:19pm today, aka. at the 22666976 ethereum block is 954.33K ARB (or 954328.938917807101820975 ARB to be more precise) and that’s what we have on the proposals.app back-end, as you can see in the screenshot below where it shows 954328.94 ARB at June 9, 2025, 12:18 PM (UTC)
And look, I’m not trying to put down other governance tools in this space with the example above, I’m just trying to highlight, that once you look close enough (and we’ve been doing that for quite a while) it is actually quite hard to index governance data reliably.
Our open-source, non-profit, public goods funded approach at proposals.app is the best way we can think of, of having a reliable, long-term infrastructure for this kind of thing, that can serve DAOs for the long run. That’s why we believe that relying on DAOs like Arbitrum to fund these development efforts instead of pursuing a VC backed approach, is the right strategy.
And that’s why we put up this proposal for Arbitrum DAO to fund these forum integrations and align the future of proposals.app with the Arbitrum DAO.