@optimism had mentioned me in another post almost directionally about this #1557611 but I would say based on my experience working with startups, founders, grantees, developers over the last 5 years that if your trying to build a product or company in the space it is far better to either bootstrap or raise capital, not sure how you can receive "free money" and feel incentivized to build something that is innovative and valuable, being under the gun doing a startup forces you out of your comfort zone to innovate, you will either burn out, fade away, quit, succeed or die trying.
@optimism had mentioned me in another post almost directionally about this #1557611 but I would say based on my experience working with startups, founders, grantees, developers over the last 5 years that if your trying to build a product or company in the space it is far better to either bootstrap or raise capital, not sure how you can receive "free money" and feel incentivized to build something that is innovative and valuable, being under the gun doing a startup forces you out of your comfort zone to innovate, you will either burn out, fade away, quit, succeed or die trying.