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Re:Moth Minds: Fund individuals doing work you believe in by nickff on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @03:56PM (#29409028)
>”Startups also often fail, individual grants will not be different from that, and not everyone needs to be a brilliant genius to achieve something.”

I agree, but I’m trying to point out that this plan has an adverse selection problem coupled with some other issues.

Re:Moth Minds: Fund individuals doing work you believe in by 13415 on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @05:57PM (#29410242)
Maybe you're right, it's difficult to judge from that web page. It depends a lot on how they intend to carry out the funding process and the web page doesn't say much about it. I assumed it's something like Patreon, which works well for some people, I've heard.