About PeakD

PeakD Sustainability and Maintenance Proposal

For the past several years, PeakD has worked to provide one of the most complete user experiences on Hive while also supporting open source tools and infrastructure used across the ecosystem.

This new DHF proposal has a much narrower and more focused scope than our previous one.

Vote: https://peakd.com/proposals/382

A Sustainability and Maintenance Proposal

This proposal is not an expansion proposal. It is a sustainability proposal to keep PeakD, its core services, and as many Peak Open projects as possible moving forward during a difficult market period.

Our previous proposal originally requested 635 HBD/day but we lowered it down to 490 HBD/day back in February. For this proposal, we are requesting 150 HBD/day.

That is a reduction of more than 75% from the previous funding level.

The goal is simple: keep the project alive, keep the essential work moving, reduce costs, and reduce the allocated development time from the team while still doing our best to support the Hive ecosystem.

What This Proposal Covers

With this reduced budget, our focus will be on the most important work:

PeakD.com updates and maintenance
Hive blockchain compatibility updates
Bug fixes, security updates, and dependency maintenance
Server, storage and database costs
Keeping as many Peak Open source projects available and maintained as possible

We will prioritize stability, infrastructure, reliability, and compatibility first. When decisions need to be made, we will focus on the work that has the most direct value for the Hive community.

New Developments

Even with this significant budget reduction, we do not want this proposal to be only about standing still.

AI coding agents are making it possible for small teams to remain productive in ways that were not realistic before. Because of that, we expect to continue shipping some new features and improvements, even while reducing the total funding and allocated team time.

To get an idea of what a small team can accomplish nowadays you can have a look at what we delivered in the past few months checking out the changelog page: https://peakd.com/about/changelog

That said, the scope will be more selective. We will focus on improvements that are realistic, high-impact, and maintainable under the reduced budget.

Team

This proposal supports the core PeakD effort led by @asgarth and @jarvie.

The funding will help cover reduced allocated development time, project coordination, maintenance, and the essential costs required to keep PeakD and related open source projects operating.

Transparency

We publish our updates on the Hive blockchain through our personal and project accounts (@peakd and @peak.open). As always, our work, progress, and decisions will remain visible to the community.

If Funding Is Not Available

Even without funding, we will try to keep going for as long as possible.

PeakD has been part of Hive for many years, and we care deeply about the ecosystem. But the level of work we can sustain depends on available resources. This proposal is designed to be realistic: smaller, more focused, and aligned with current market conditions.

How To Support

If you believe PeakD and the Peak Open projects continue to provide value to Hive, please consider voting for this proposal:

Vote here: https://peakd.com/proposals/382

Or using other Hive dApps:

Ecency: https://ecency.com/proposals/382 HiveBlog: https://wallet.hive.blog/proposals

Don't forget to review all the way you can support the project on peakd.com/about/support-us.

Thank you for your continued support and commitment to the Hive community.

The PeakD Team

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Comments · 18

@thefed(69)· 12d
How thiz AI whatever proposal is funded for more than PeakD asks for and this still isn’t funded as the main & most used front end is just very telling. 6 whales control DHF.
@crrdlx(68)· 39d
A small nitpicky math thing...

The proposal is to move from 635 to 490 HBD each day.

That is a reduction of more than 75% from the previous funding level.

635 to 490 is a 23% reduction from the previous level, not more than 75%. I'm sure rhat wording was intended to mean a reduction down to roughly 75% of the previous funding level.

No big deal, picky picky picky on me! PeakD is fantastic.
@urun(69)· 45d
peakd is cool and the best hive front end. 150$ a day are ok and "worth". But hive itself has a problem no proposal or things build on hive are build to scale or making any revenue and become sustainable on its own.

Its not a business depending forever on DAO handouts. IMO it needs more drastic changes to be competitive ( 150$ for a transition timeframe is a nobrainer, even more).

Close to every DAO funding project failed to deliver or add meaningful value to the ecosystem. Everything feels at best as " proof of concept" projects.

IMO without a revenue path, that benefits the project + attracts users every project is a net negative.

4k a month should be easy doable with some smart work on revenue.

Not a single project on hive has a reason to scale ( it costs money twice since accounts not free). I say it for years. Thats IMO the elephant in the room to make it sustainable on its own.

Not build "cool" tools maybe 50 people use. The "good" part on hive is, the content itself does not follow crypto cycles and designed right it could stay independent and become a reliable revenue source.

Just my 2 cents to it, if peakd ( even if i like it) is not able to keep the lights without DAO money, its maybe a failed project already.
@udabeu(72)· 58d
Of cause peakd proposals are votedt for , but there is just another problem , what is this for " https://images.hive.blog/1536x0/https://fi.... " , this size thingy makes gifs ungify and surely is not proposed to be this way , or is it ??
@louis88(80)· 61d
Supported!
@lovelemon(76)· 61d

Hello PeakD team, I hope you're doing well. I've noticed a large blank space on the right side of every posts when viewing them. Could you please let me know if this is intended behavior or a display issue?
@creeperiano99(56)· 64d

Is it a bug?
@mortezayousefi(67)· 68d
do you have any plans to have an app on ios
@xrayman(76)· 69d
Supported! Better "late" (2 days off due) then never, right? 😅
@brianphobos(72)· 70d
I will vote for it when Im back on my computer. PeakD has always been a great experience! 👍 Thank you!
@igormuba(72)· 71d
I love PeakD and this will be the hardest proposal to not support under current market conditions.

I will not support it because I think we should show extreme austerity commitment since Hive is basically broke, but I commend the fact that you are asking for one of the lowest daily pays we have seen on this blockchain in a very long time. A -75% cut is meaningful for one of the most important and possibly the best web frontend we have, already shows a good signal that things can keep running even we keep going down.

Still this (having to not support and be against funding something I love) is the kind of thing I hoped to avoid by baking into the protocol a signal to cut DHF payouts. I didn't want to be against it because I personally admire the team, I know you are very technically capable, and more than that, you personally committed to Hive. True enthusiasts who have put a lot of effort and brought true, clear and easily visible value for Hive, much more than me or anyone ever could even if we had a much bigger budget and time ourselves. You guys run efficiently and effectively, always have.

Still I can't support funding anything before we can show radical restraint. Right now we are not giving a good impression to outsiders when it comes to fiscal restraint. I don't think that 150 HBD a day will be very impactful (although of coure over time it compounds), but beyond the sell pressure it is about showing we are capable of harsh austerity measures when it is needed, that would bring confidence and raise the morale. It is about showing that in a worst case scenario (complete depeg and death spiraling) we can still keep working, because that is a real possibility knocking at our door. And to prove we can do that IMO we need to defund everything, specially when we are about to hit yet another all time low, we do that almost on a weekly basis by now.

Still luckily my opinion and my vote have no impact.

Good job and good luck to all of us. I admire you guys beyond words. You have probably had more posivite impact on Hive than basically almost any other team. Won't support and trust me, it hurts to not support it.
@sjarvie5(77)· 71d
Supported!!!
@darkflame(70)· 71d
@hivebuzz(74)· 71d
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@latinowinner(58)· 71d
perseverance is key
@davideownzall(74)· 71d
I'll support this, I'm lost without peakd on hive
@shawnnft(75)· 71d
this is good. thanks for doing this
@borislavzlatanov(65)· 71d
Leading the way. :)