When we think of retro funding, we often think of the big projects we know.
These projects are likely to be the ones that are easily accessible, or the ones that everyone knows about.
Below are examples of well-known projects.
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”.
Actually, you are WRONG.
Anybody can participate in Retro Funding.
I want YOU for Retro Funding.
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.
Even if it seems like a small task to you, it can still be a meaningful contribution to this significant Public Goods Funding effort.
So in this post, we’re honoring the unsung contributors of retro-funding, the ones who are small but really making an impact. You can be one of them too.
#Let’s take a look at the hero of each round.
Round 5 - OP-stack Documentation
As a solo developer, richardgreg has suggested improvements to OP-stack’s GitHub documentation in several articles! richardgreg has submitted a small but steady stream of suggestions, which have filled the small gaps that others might have missed.
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.
With this game, corbinpage drew 8K users.
Making games is hard, but with Frame, you can do it too.
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!
Niftytable used Dune to visualize the user activity of ERC4337.
You can easily create any dashboard in Dune. Use Dune to visualize everything about the Superchain you care about.
Niftytable created a Dune dashboard and became a winner of Retro Funding 3!
Don’t think too hard. Just start it first. That’s how you contribute to Optimism and become a winner of Retro Funding.
If this series is helpful to many builders, I will be writing more about other small Retro Funding projects.
Thank you!
