Ask HN: What happened to Proposition HN? ("$8000 for your side project")
Hey guys<p>Sorry for the radio silence. I was intending on keeping the blog updated with anecdotes from the experiment, but ended up not doing so. I've received a few emails from people mentioning that I'm throwing away the opportunity of turning the initial spike of interest into a long-standing readership/audience but the truth is that was never what I was after; I was genuinely keen on finding some cool new projects to work on.<p>The experiment is going so-so. If you remember I green-lighted 5 projects.<p>- 1 was aborted before start through mutual agreement after further market research<p>- 2 were aborted because the devs did not manage to complete the MVP. Lack of motivation mainly. If I've learnt anything so far it's that lack of follow-through is still a major issue, and the promise of a little money and a partner to work with does not squash the problem as much as I thought it would. I suspect not being physically in the same space has a lot to do with it.<p>That leaves 2, one of which is live and the other is about a month away still (slow progress)<p>So it's unclear whether this structure works. Going to depend on the last 2. Even then, the sample size has been quite small so the results will not be conclusive. Guess will need to try a second round at some point!<p>hmexx