对于非程序员的社区成员,如我,可能有一些生态项目的创意或者需求,但是不知道是否合理具备可操作性/是否有受众市场,更没有能力实现这种想法。能否增加一个创意或者需求环节,让社区成员进行投票,并设置一定的激励措施(不一定是金钱,可以是DOB这种徽章之类的),一方面进行促进思维碰撞,另一方面可以调研社区内的真实需求,让开发者更容易去判断,甚至进行结合,促进生态项目的发展。
我个人非常赞赏这个想法,而且倾向把它理解为HCI测试里的需求发现与用户研究,而不是单纯的点子征集。如果把DAO当成一个长期产品,那它确实需要一个机制去持续收集真实需求,并把需求转换成可执行的交付。
从范围上看,这类工作、机制也完全落在 Community Fund DAO 的 scope 里:
它不是写代码本身,但能促进生态项目孵化、内容生产、活动组织与开发方向判断,属于生态建设的软性基础设施。
但我觉得也应该对DAO的边界进行讨论。任何 DAO 肯定都没有一个默认的官方团队负责元规则之外的机制搭建。更合理的方式,可能是把需求发现与用户研究当成一个社区共建的项目来做,也就是任何社区成员都可以发起申请,拿到预算,去组织一次需求征集活动,跑完流程,产出报告和可复用模板,然后让后续的人基于它迭代。
如果担心DAO提案的门槛或周期,或许也可以先用 Spark 做一个短平快的实验
:用小预算在几周内做一次需求征集 event,做简单的归类与优先级排序,配合一些非金钱的激励(DOB/徽章/公开致谢名单,etc),最后交付一份对社区有用的总结报告。
基于Spark跑通后,再决定是否提案升级为DAO层面的长期机制,或者申请DAO funding 做一个更完整的长期版。
Personally, I appreciate this idea and tend to understand it as needs discovery and user research in the HCI sense, rather than simple idea collection. If we treat the DAO as a long-term product, then having a mechanism to continuously surface real community needs and translate them into executable outcomes is indeed important.
From a scope perspective, this type of work and mechanism clearly falls within the scope of the Community Fund DAO:
This is not about writing code itself, but about enabling project incubation, content production, event organization, and better decision-making for development directions. In that sense, it is a form of soft infrastructure for ecosystem building.
That said, I think it is also important to be clear about the DAO’s boundaries. DAO means that there does not have a default official team”responsible for building mechanisms beyond the meta rules. A more appropriate approach may be to treat needs discovery and user research as a community-driven project: any community member can propose it, request a budget, organize a needs-collection activity, run the process, and deliver a report and reusable templates that others can iterate on later.
If the DAO proposal process feels too heavy in terms of threshold or cycle time, it may also make sense to first run a short, lightweight experiment through Spark
. With a small budget, a needs-collection event could be organized within a few weeks, including basic clustering and prioritization, paired with non-monetary incentives such as DOBs, badges, or public acknowledgements. The outcome would be a concrete report useful to the community.
If this experiment proves valuable, it could then be proposed to be upgraded into a longer-term DAO-level mechanism, or followed by a more comprehensive DAO funding proposal.
以前 @woodbury.bit 的这个帖子有过类似的讨论:DAO分层建议 。