Wooow! The fighting spirit, independence and abnegation of Manish and the other "Dgraph Labs" devs are admirable... Thanks for bringing this to our attention!
Do you think, @foxon , there could be a partial solution to the "Outcaste" financement needs being designed and fed from the Hive ecosystem? I've seen so many posts and podcasts in this platform exploring the potential for Hive based DAOs slowly replacing centralized VCs (like here: https://peakd.com/hive-181335/@spknetwork.chat/ewonuygv), that it'd be a shiny and very helpful use case for those ideas and energies 😃.
I think it's a good solution for some, and will become more popular, but Manish has a pretty big network already. So in this specific case, I think it'd have to be treated as an extra effort where he already knows quite a few VCs and people in the Eth space