Pick where you want to go. Every route starts with a move you can make within the hour.
Pull your real numbers from Skill Pledge: rounds, pledges, hours, participants. Put them in one short table with dates, plus two screenshots of a round report. Reviewers trust small honest numbers more than big projections.
Gitcoin rounds (open source), Optimism retro funding after measurable impact, Ethereum ESP, accelerators like Alliance or a16z CSX style.
Ask a QF researcher to review your hour rule.
I run Skill Pledge, which counts confirmed skill hours in QF matching. Could you sanity check our hour to credit rule? [link]
Write the application in this order: the problem in one paragraph, what Skill Pledge already does with proof, then three dated milestones with a modest ask tied to each. Have one person read it before you send.
Submitted Skill Pledge: [number] confirmed hours matched across [number] rounds.
Leave an email and we nudge you at 24 and 72 hours with your next move. Optional.
Or to keep this voyage on your profile.
LIVE DEMOA project-in-a-box: contracts, site, docs and impact metrics shaped for grant applications.
LIVE DEMOShow funders exactly what their grant built, milestone by milestone, with proof attached.
LIVE DEMOLend the ladder, the drill, the tent: a street library of things with deposits held by contract.