We know that the octane fund failed because vetting startups is hard(and other reasons...)

But instead could do a simple bounty based on users of the app(different thesis than bootstrapping on existing DeSo users but of course they could still use).

Pay $1 million for every 100,000 users.

I bet you'd have plenty of people competing.

Also to make it less risky for the app builders and less all or nothing -> payout in milestones like $100k for each 10,000 users.

Total cost for 2 million users is $20m

That's a reasonable CAC and less than 10% of treasury.

To get different outcomes must try different things.