As someone pretty new to this forum and the effective altruism community (not the ideas though) it’s shocking to see how much money the EA community seems to spend on funding projects by it’s members.
$100,000 is significantly more money than most people earn per year, and a ton more than most blogs earn.
Maybe this is a good use of this money. I just wanted to express this in case folks who are used to this type of funding forget how surprising it can be to a newcomer.
I would be much more impressed by someone who is a regulare contributor to a useful Open source project than someone who built a side project on their own. Working with others, reading other peoples code and having your code go through reviews is something that you wont get working on a personal project.