Hey there, everybody! Thank you all for your feedback!
We have significantly updated the proposal, and now the cost is only ~29% of what was initially proposed — just a simple subscription-like fee of $60,000 USD for 1 year of maintenance and hosting for the three proposed feature integrations.
We decided to reduce the term of this proposal to just one year, as a few delegates recommended, and to charge only the maintenance and hosting fees, as this model aligns better with our open-source ethos and addresses the most common type of feedback we received regarding the initially proposed $206,400 USD total cost being too high.
proposals.app is, first and foremost, an open-source project. So it makes sense that we follow a traditional open-source business model where maintenance subscriptions are the primary source of funding for contributors. This way, we can ensure a consistent revenue stream to sustain the product’s development and make it available to as many people as possible.
We also gathered, from the diverse feedback we received, that all three feature integrations are seen as useful by the collective set of delegates. As we all know, here in Arbitrum DAO, we have delegates of all “shapes and sizes” who come with a diverse set of preferences for which of these features are the most useful. Since we had very specific feedback highlighting the usefulness of all three feature integrations, we decided to keep the same scope that was initially proposed, in this new version of the proposal. This also shows that this specific set of feature integrations we proposed is based on the user research efforts we’ve conducted with a diverse set of delegates, to guarantee a good product fit between what delegates need and what we can offer with proposals.app.
Additionally, we would like to highlight that, during the past week of discussion and deliberation in this forum, we’ve already made significant progress in building most of the proposed features, as evident from the commits on our open-source GitHub repository here.
Therefore, we invite you to test our initial prototypes in a test forum, which is hosted by Discourse, just like this Arbitrum DAO forum, where you can see the Voting Power Tags fully working and interactive. Try it out for yourself at This is a test topic - #2 by GFXlabs - General - proposalapp-test
You can also view the initial prototype of the Live Votes feature component, which will be integrated into the Discourse forum in the same way as the Voting Power Tags example above.
We will be putting this proposal up for an offchain vote on Snapshot today, using the basic vote type of 
For / 
Abstain / 
Against. If the offchain vote passes, we will then proceed to a non-constitutional onchain vote.
Thank you!