Prevent breaking changes
Can you be sure tech giants won't make you adapt to them?
Are you using open-source products?
There is a monthly subscription fee for the users. Subscription fee is distributed among maintainers across the world. In return, in every week, Cascadefund sends your to your email options to direct the apps you use.
Suggest new features
Will tech giants listen to you?
Plug-in compatible apps with your open-source stack
Tech giants will "kill" you for that.
3 apps or 3 million apps, same subscription
Your subscription grows Amazon forest. Tech giants build walled gardens.
Start using Open Source
Email will be sent to you when subscription will be available.
Are you maintaining an open-source project?
To make a semantic web, all projects agree on a user-centric protocol which means received user funds can be used for:
User-centric rule 1
Decouple your app into data, logic, and code. It doesn't have to be now, but slowly on demand as more funds come to you.
User-centric rule 2
Every week, Cascadefund will send an email with the suggested projects used in tandem with your project. Discuss, share and create protocol with other projects.
Communication between projects is out of scope of Cascadefund.
User-centric rule 3
Every week at most we will send a feature request needed for the project that users need. It's optional to implement but increases the demand for your app.
Don't worry about polished UI. The user-centric protocol allows
designers to build polished UI on it later.
What Cascadefund is
Apps grouped into application stacks: writing workflow, a dev workflow, a design workflow, etc. For each user there is a stack of apps. Each stack is described by web semantics: "what is the relationship between the apps, and in which order they are used?". Open source projects are mapped semantically to the stacks made by users. When a developer makes their project compatible with others, and used by the users, the project is included in the semantics of the stack. Users subscription flows according to the semantics, and the project receives their share of the fee.
Decoupling and interoperability means projects can be re-used in multiple stacks in various semantics. More modular your app, more likely it will be used in multiple stacks.
The funding flow by semantics is described by the hyperpayment protocol, executed on blockchain. Blockchain removes the middleman, stores the semantics of the OSS and its execution, and is used for reputation and trust earning. A dishonest app marks reputation lost permanently on the web. More information about the hyperpayment protocol on the website.
To sustain the advisor role, Cascadefund receives a portion of the subscription fee, used for semantic analysis and communication between users and projects. Cascadefund is not a middleman in semantics or payment flows - semantic building and payments work without a middleman who can interfere with it.
Founding projects
We are onboarding founding projects now. The first projects in shape how the alliance works.
At this stage the weekly digest is curated by hand and advising will happen via emails.