When we think of retro funding, we often think of the big projects we know.
These projects are likely to be the ones that we’re used to making, the ones that are easily accessible, or the ones that everyone knows about.
Go-ethereum, Conduit, velodrome, etc. are all big projects that everyone knows about.
So a lot of developers or builders can feel a barrier to retro funding. I’ve seen a lot of people around me think “I’m not that big of a project”.
Many builders don’t realize that what they’re doing is bigger than they think. The typo in the readme you found was merged, saving someone three hours of work, and the small library you contributed to has inspired someone else’s work on the other side of the world.
So in this post, we’re honoring the unsung contributors of retro-funding, the ones who are small but really making an impact.
Round 5 - OP-stack Documentation
As a solo developer, he has suggested improvements to OP-stack’s GitHub documentation in several articles! He has submitted a small but steady stream of suggestions, which have been merged.
You can check out his work at the GitHub link.
Round 4 - King of the Degens (Farcaster Frame Game)
Do you like games? Here’s a little Frame game for you.
Making games is hard, but with Frame, you can do it too. He made a simple game and won a retro funding 4!
Round 3 - ERC4337 Smart Accounts Dune Dashboard’s Application
There’s a path for data engineers that doesn’t involve building products or writing code! You can easily create any dashboard in Dune. Use Dune to dataize everything about the superchain you care about.
This guy created a Dune dashboard and became a winner of Retro Funding 3!
All of your work is great, which makes it all the more challenging,
but it all starts with a first step.
Don’t think hard, just start, and that’s how you contribute to Optimism and become a beneficiary of retrofunding.
If this series helps a lot of builders, I’ll be writing about small retrofunding projects periodically! Thank you!
