I have been quite close through the year to the app made by Paulo and Andrei.
I was one of the judges at govhack 2024 that awarded proposals.app with the first price, then during Questbook season 2 I approved a grant to continue the development.
Useless to say, I think that the application is well done and serves a value and a purpose. I was also quite impressed by the milestone’s videos that Paulo released over time, very detailed.
That said, I am voting “abstain” from this proposal. The reason is simple: to me, the cost proposed even after the reduction is wrong because the proposed model is wrong.
Governance is not something we only have in Arbitrum but in several DAOs, which would all benefit from this integration. This would be, in my opinion, the right way to scale down costs: a $20k integration fee per year on five different daos would bring the team to the price tag initially proposed, and would be potentially easier to obtain. Understanding that, before upselling, you want to have a functioning product, it could have made sense to start here, in Arbitrum (likely at a loss initially) and then expand over time.
I do understand both the attachment and the desire from Paulo to stay exclusive here and I can also appreciate that; but unfortunately this feeling is in my opinion not compatible with the product.
As a side note, I don’t think we are currently in a point of the life cycle of the DAO in which we want to necessarily focus on further governance tooling, but this point is currently secondary compared to the evaluation above.