[Non-Constitutional] Let’s improve our governance forum with three proposals.app feature integrations

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Hey @danielo thank you for reading our proposal and for the positive words about the features we proposed.

Addressing your concerns:

  • Regarding the contract length, I agree with you that maybe the proposal flow in Arbitrum DAO will decrease given the proposed new vision (I pointed that out myself last month here) but we still don’t know for sure what is going to happen regarding that. The fact is that in April we had less proposals and votes than the last 6 months, but it feels to me like it picked up a little bit more in May. Also, the reason we proposed a 2 year contract for Arbitrum DAO is so that Arbitrum can lock down this $60,000 USD a year maintenance + hosting price, for the next 2 years. One year from now, the price for these features will most likely be higher than what we are proposing now, so by committing to a 2 year contract, Arbitrum DAO would actually be getting a better deal than committing to a 1 year contract only.

  • Regarding the overall cost, it is very reductive to evaluate the cost for these features based solely on the 3 actual features we propose. The reality is that these features only work, and are only reliable, if there is a back-end platform that correctly indexes data and processes this data. This back-end needs to be constantly improved and is actually quite costly to run. We’ve spent the last 9 months developing that back-end under the scope of proposals.app and the last 3 years if we include the scope of Senate as well. This back-end is what powers the currently available arbitrum.proposals.app platform launched in April, and it will power all of these proposed features.

This spreadsheet offers more fine-grained detail on the costs, which show how we arrived at the $206,400 USD final amount.

Having worked in user research, ux design, and software development myself for the last 15 years, while running companies that provide these services, and having designed and delivered dozens of apps for different industries all over the world, I feel these costs are actually very reasonable for a quality and reliable product.

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